Mel Gibson: the Passion and its consequences (or The Flesh is weak but Ukrainian woman is stronger)
By Tom Teicholz at 20 November, 2008, 12:10 pm
Gossip in Hollywood is that Mel Gibson’s wife of 26 years is divorcing him over his affair with a Ukrianian singer Oksana — and that given California’s community propoerty laws and their long marriage she may be entitled to as much as $900 Million.
It appears, if you had not noticed before, that Gibson has a self-destructive streak. Just to indulge in a little remote shrinking, apparently Mel does not feel worthy. There is something about a guy who struggles not to off the rails (drinking, women, who knows what else) and who clings so strongly to his faith and his specific version of his observance (Gibson belongs to a group tha doesn’t seem to follow Vatican II conventions)Â — that makes one wonder about the symbiosis of the two.
I don’t know what happened in his childhood but there has always been stories about his father beating him, and that is also contrasted by his staunch position of never saying anything bad about his father, even when his father made Holocaust-denying-type comments, and combined with GIbson’s notions of transcedence arising out of great pain in his films such as Braveheart and the Passion, that also make us wonder if Gibson, in the most basic pop-psych way, cause to to love that which hurt him, and hurt those who love him., and is a the root of his self destructive acts.
Now for the Tom Teicholz- Zelig like moment: When I visited Lviv, in Ukraine, in 1995, I saw Oksana perform at an outdoor Mother’s day. Tonight I’m going to search out my photos from that trip and see if there are any of her.
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