Putting the words “Mel Gibson” and a “Beaver”
together sounds more like a womanising story in the tabloids than it does a
movie, but I should probably tell you that this “beaver” is actually a
hand-puppet of the awkward looking animal, and not, a vagina.
Reviews are
coming in thick and fast, applauding the film and an actor whose work/life exposure to the
media has shifted more into the latter which has many media commentators and
publicists believing it has damaged Gibson’s reputation which, we all know dear
readers is the vanity fuel that drives an industry.
I haven’t seen
the movie, but the concept is what I find interesting more than anything.
After years of
the same in, same out of films that if their producers were assisting in
figuring out how to do cloning, there would be plenty more of Dolly the Sheep
around.
But I digress.
The Beaver;
which also stars Jodie Foster provides a break up in the same old films that
visit the cinema and reach the computers by alternatively acquired means.
Most films that provide
such a break aren’t usually featured in the mainstream cinemas but at least
this one is in order to reach a larger audience, one that thought Avatar was a riveting
film with emotional depth, they were blue people Goddamnit! Here at the Daily
Red my suspension of disbelief doesn’t go as far as to forget what colour skin
these characters have.
I like that this
movie is something out of the different, instead of a rabbit being pulled out
of a hat, this time it is a Beaver, or whatever you want it to be. It breaks a
mould that is as tough as old boots.
And what about Gibson?
They say that his issues will affect watching the movie but really people are
you so shallow as to think of that when watching a film far different to what
you’ve seen in the past?
Appreciate the
diversity that this movie will bring, and for however long the movie runs for,
be ignorant to the off-screen history of an actor who is, still, a quality
actor.
Seems to me that this is a movie worth seeing.
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