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I saw the new movie 'The Passion of the Christ' last night. I am going to cover it from two points. As a movie and how it depicts jews.
I must state ahead of time that I do not believe in any God, I do not believe in an after life or anything of the sort. I saw this movie purely as a movie buff.
It is an incredible work. It pulls no punches on how a story like the passion would have really looked and felt. It is shocking and incredibly violent. The scenes of Jesus's torture and his journey to the hill carrying his cross is stomach turning brilliant. As a non believer I was still moved to tears on the power of this story. You will find no made for tv movie drama here. It is as bare bones and forthright a movie as you can get.
It was done in Aremaic. All lines are subtitled in English. After the first 3 minutes you won't even care.
Many jews have a problem with the movie and see it as anti-semitic. A powerful scene where a jewish priest curses Jesus under the cross is very disturbing not by what it says about jews but the pure power of the scene. Anyone looking to be offened will be. My defense though is that is not a pure christian story. In a lot of ways it is a jewish story. Jesus was jewish, his supporters where jewish, his enemies where by and large jewish. This film does not single them out because it is the story of the jewish people.
It is a stunning creation and I encourage everyone to see it no matter what your spiritual views. Look for it to go awardless because it breaks convention Hollywood likes in movies. In other words Mel Gibson left the cookie cutters at home.
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I saw the new movie 'The Passion of the Christ' last night. I am going to cover it from two points. As a movie and how it depicts jews.
I must state ahead of time that I do not believe in any God, I do not believe in an after life or anything of the sort. I saw this movie purely as a movie buff.
It is an incredible work. It pulls no punches on how a story like the passion would have really looked and felt. It is shocking and incredibly violent. The scenes of Jesus's torture and his journey to the hill carrying his cross is stomach turning brilliant. As a non believer I was still moved to tears on the power of this story. You will find no made for tv movie drama here. It is as bare bones and forthright a movie as you can get.
It was done in Aremaic. All lines are subtitled in English. After the first 3 minutes you won't even care.
Many jews have a problem with the movie and see it as anti-semitic. A powerful scene where a jewish priest curses Jesus under the cross is very disturbing not by what it says about jews but the pure power of the scene. Anyone looking to be offened will be. My defense though is that is not a pure christian story. In a lot of ways it is a jewish story. Jesus was jewish, his supporters where jewish, his enemies where by and large jewish. This film does not single them out because it is the story of the jewish people.
It is a stunning creation and I encourage everyone to see it no matter what your spiritual views. Look for it to go awardless because it breaks convention Hollywood likes in movies. In other words Mel Gibson left the cookie cutters at home.
customerjon @gmail.com is where information happens.