Yea, I admit it was an obvious move, and they are not exactly hard to recognise, most people could spot a Hitler a mile away, but it had to be done.
They are actually counter to the point tho, as hitler doesn't express his views in these pictures, whereas Gibson does show nasty stereotypes of jewish people in passion, and in Apocalypto he depicts the Maya as violent and immoral and so justifies the spanish conquest and force to conversion to catholicism (Gibsons religion, and source of his prejudices). Gibson is starting to use his work to push his predudices and you can't separate the two.
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