Politics brings out the worst in people.
Not everyone, but far too many let their convictions overtake their humanity. The more people obsess, the more unreasonable they tend to become. The first sign of disagreement with their views is met with hostility.
I worked in a machine shop with two guys. Others outside the shop called me Mark in the Middle. One halfwit thought God sent Trump down to save us all. The other, who was even worse, fancied himself an anarchist. All landlords and police officers should be executed. He rejoiced over the murder of Brian Thompson.
I agree that things need to change in America. Drastic measures may be necessary, but to derive such pleasure from the violent death of a man with a family is sickening. I'm so glad to be out of there.
Which brings me to The Last Supper.
The Last Supper is an independent movie from 1995. It's mostly forgotten now, which is a shame. It's very funny, very sharp, and it carries an important message we need now more than ever.
A group of hard Left grad students end up having dinner with a bigoted truck driver and Desert Storm veteran, uproariously played by Bill Paxton. In all fairness, the liberals taunt him, which provokes violent action, ending with Paxton killed. They cover up the murder and bury the corpse in the yard under tomato plants.
The students bicker and wrestle with their moral codes, but ultimately realize they made the world a better place. Why stop now?
Various conservatives are invited to dinner. Charles Durning is a priest who believes AIDS is God's cure for homosexuality. Mark Harmon is a Men's Rights advocate who thinks most cases of rape were really consensual. Jason Alexander is an anti-environmentalist. There's a prim high school girl against sex education, a book censor, an anti-Semite, a woman against immigration, etc.
All are poisoned and consigned to the yard. The tomatoes flourish while the Leftists become more gleefully hateful.
Meanwhile there's a link between the deadly dinners and a missing little girl. Nora Dunn is a shrewd sheriff who edges closer to the truth.
Irony of ironies, a conservative Rush Limbaugh-type, played by Ron Perlman, is invited to dinner. He turns out to be intelligent and fairly reasonable. This disrupts the group's black and white views on life and leads to the film's fitting conclusion.
The beautiful thing about The Last Supper is how it refuses to take sides. This movie demonstrates the dangers in extreme thinking and how self righteousness so easily turns into vicious behavior.
The cast is outstanding. In addition to the actors I named above, Cameron Diaz, Courtney B. Vance, and Annabeth Gish are in The Last Supper. Mark Mothersbaugh did the music.
Women had their feet in the independent film door by the mid-'90s, but the industry was still mostly a boy's club. The Last Supper was directed by Stacy Title, who unjustly didn't have the career she deserved.
Title went on to make a couple little movies, and she had a minor coup with a small horror movie called The Bye Bye Man in 2017. She was working on a film called Walking Time Bomb when she was diagnosed with Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). She refused to quit and continued working even after she couldn't walk, eat, or speak.
Stacy Title died on January 11, 2021, her final project uncompleted. It's one of the many tragedies in the world of motion picture entertainment. At least we have her movies, the best of which is The Last Supper.
Written by Mark Sieber
Not everyone, but far too many let their convictions overtake their humanity. The more people obsess, the more unreasonable they tend to become. The first sign of disagreement with their views is met with hostility.
I worked in a machine shop with two guys. Others outside the shop called me Mark in the Middle. One halfwit thought God sent Trump down to save us all. The other, who was even worse, fancied himself an anarchist. All landlords and police officers should be executed. He rejoiced over the murder of Brian Thompson.
I agree that things need to change in America. Drastic measures may be necessary, but to derive such pleasure from the violent death of a man with a family is sickening. I'm so glad to be out of there.
Which brings me to The Last Supper.

The Last Supper is an independent movie from 1995. It's mostly forgotten now, which is a shame. It's very funny, very sharp, and it carries an important message we need now more than ever.
A group of hard Left grad students end up having dinner with a bigoted truck driver and Desert Storm veteran, uproariously played by Bill Paxton. In all fairness, the liberals taunt him, which provokes violent action, ending with Paxton killed. They cover up the murder and bury the corpse in the yard under tomato plants.
The students bicker and wrestle with their moral codes, but ultimately realize they made the world a better place. Why stop now?
Various conservatives are invited to dinner. Charles Durning is a priest who believes AIDS is God's cure for homosexuality. Mark Harmon is a Men's Rights advocate who thinks most cases of rape were really consensual. Jason Alexander is an anti-environmentalist. There's a prim high school girl against sex education, a book censor, an anti-Semite, a woman against immigration, etc.
All are poisoned and consigned to the yard. The tomatoes flourish while the Leftists become more gleefully hateful.
Meanwhile there's a link between the deadly dinners and a missing little girl. Nora Dunn is a shrewd sheriff who edges closer to the truth.
Irony of ironies, a conservative Rush Limbaugh-type, played by Ron Perlman, is invited to dinner. He turns out to be intelligent and fairly reasonable. This disrupts the group's black and white views on life and leads to the film's fitting conclusion.
The beautiful thing about The Last Supper is how it refuses to take sides. This movie demonstrates the dangers in extreme thinking and how self righteousness so easily turns into vicious behavior.
The cast is outstanding. In addition to the actors I named above, Cameron Diaz, Courtney B. Vance, and Annabeth Gish are in The Last Supper. Mark Mothersbaugh did the music.
Women had their feet in the independent film door by the mid-'90s, but the industry was still mostly a boy's club. The Last Supper was directed by Stacy Title, who unjustly didn't have the career she deserved.
Title went on to make a couple little movies, and she had a minor coup with a small horror movie called The Bye Bye Man in 2017. She was working on a film called Walking Time Bomb when she was diagnosed with Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). She refused to quit and continued working even after she couldn't walk, eat, or speak.
Stacy Title died on January 11, 2021, her final project uncompleted. It's one of the many tragedies in the world of motion picture entertainment. At least we have her movies, the best of which is The Last Supper.
Written by Mark Sieber
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