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It is perhaps inevitable that Hacksaw Ridge has transcended being a movie and has instead become a kind of metaphor for the resurrection of Mel Gibson. An industry driven by narrative can’t help but see them everywhere. And make no bones about it, one is here: Mad Max is back. Gibson (minus the beard, unfortunately) graced the Aero Theatre on February 16, 2017, following a showing of his Academy Award Best Picture nominee, Hacksaw Ridge . Photo by Robert Enger The movie itself is astonishing, simply because it’s true. Desmond Doss, a Seventh Day Adventist from Virginia (played by Andrew Garfield), enlists in the army after the attack on Pearl Harbor, but owing to his strict religious beliefs refuses to carry a weapon. Instead he plans to serve as a field medic. They say truth is often stranger than fiction and Gibson himself admitted there were parts of Desmond’s story too outlandish and unbelievable even for Hollywood. “Pretty much everything you see in the movie happened. We might h...