On one hand, the explicitness needs to be there. Most of the film’s running time is devoted to scenes of Christ being beaten and bloodied. When the spear is driven into His side, gushing blood blows into the wind. We watch as the crown of thorns is pushed into His head. We see the spikes being driven into His hands and feet. There is a scene where Jesus is repeatedly whipped and flogged with instruments that tear His flesh. Nothing about the crucifixion is left to the imagination. Here’s where my inner conflict kicked in. (My local cinema placed several boxes of tissues on a table right outside the auditorium due to the number of tearful audience members.)īut does The Passion of the Christ need to be as intensely violent as it is? Yes and no.
Christ is a part of so many lives that this story hits home in a big way. A thought occurred to me: for many of us, watching Jesus suffer is like watching a family member go through the same thing. The lady two seats down from me openly wailed at times. Quite a few people in the theater were in tears. Seeing the crucifixion played out hit me on a very emotional level, as it did many members of the audience. I walked out of the theater feeling like I understood the extent of His sacrifice more fully. That said, the sheer brutality of the crucifixion never really sank in until I saw it portrayed in this film. And Christians around the world – myself included – undoubtedly have a strong appreciation for the sacrifice Christ made for us. We’re all familiar with the images of Him nailed to a cross, a crown of thorns on His head.
Some things are not easy to visualize until someone visualizes them for you. They all affect you on a deep emotional level and give you a real understanding of something that is hard grasp on your own. Seeing The Passion of the Christ is akin to seeing Schindler’s List or Saving Private Ryan for the first time. He came to this world to die for our sins, and He stoically endured all kinds of vicious torture with the knowledge that there was a greater meaning behind it.Ī powerful message, certainly. Gibson’s intention was to show, as realistically as possible, the agonizing experience Christ endured on our behalf. The picture begins just as Jesus is captured after being betrayed by Judas, and it ends with His death on the cross. It recounts the final twelve hours in the life of Jesus Christ (Jim Caviezel). Undeterred, Gibson partnered up with indie distributor Newmarket Films, on a roll after Memento, Whale Rider and Monster.
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Financed with $25 million of his own money (and presented in Aramaic with English subtitles), the movie was turned down by every studio in Hollywood. The Passion of the Christ is, of course, Mel Gibson’s labor of love. I prefer to write my reviews with a combination of both, since movies are both emotional and intellectual experiences. The original review was written only with my heart, and my second was written only with my head. My opinion of the film never changed – I think it’s an important and moving piece of work – but I have a significant reservation as well. Somehow, that one didn’t seem right either, so it too came down. Then I woke up this morning, ripped my review down, and wrote a second version in which I took the film to task for its unflinching violence, which in retrospect had seemed a bit excessive to me. I spent several hours writing a review that detailed how powerful I believed the film to be. Yesterday I returned to my office after seeing The Passion of the Christ. In all the years I’ve been reviewing movies, this is something that’s never happened. The Aisle Seat - The Passion of the Christ
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