Mel Gibson’s pacifist World War II drama Hacksaw Ridge received a roughly 10-minute standing ovation at Venice at the weekend, something of a rarity at that particular film festival.
Gibson has had an infamously turbulent career, and, asked what his relationship is with Hollywood in a single word, he replied: “Survival.”
At a news conference for the film, Garfield said of his character: “The beautiful thing about Desmond Doss is that he was a very simple man, in the sense that he had a knowing.
He had a knowing in his heart, in the core of his being, that he was not supposed to take another man’s life.”