This is a shame, as I realise whenever I pick up a French newspaper or go to a debate in Paris.

That' s a shame because stories like Kafka' s contain truths we' d do well to heed.

One reason for this is the stigma experienced by many men who have sex with men and transgender people.

But the way its themes dovetail with Gibson's disgrace make it - peculiarly enough - the right film for him to have made in this very wrong moment.

I have killed them so that I would not have to suffer the humiliation of their dishonorable actions.