The Passion of the Christ (Widescreen Edition) | James Caviezel, Monica Bellucci

The Passion of the Christ (Widescreen Edition) | James Caviezel, Monica Bellucci | With complete passion...

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	The Passion of the Christ (Widescreen Edition) James Caviezel, Monica Bellucci 20th Century Fox, 2004 average customer review:based on 1997 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Brilliant!!!!!

This is a masterpiece! Not so sure if you will be as moved if you are not a Christian. However, the film depicts what Jesus Christ did for ALL of us.

With complete passion...

I still cannot believe that people made a fuss over the "violence". I will admit that it's pretty harsh but Mel was trying to fit the Isiah 53 description of Christs' death. I like how it touched base with Christs' last temptation which WAS NOT temptation for a woman but satan tempting Him not to die for us because we don't deserve it. I also liked the relationship status briefs it shows on Him and His disciples. For a believer, and someone whom is a reader of the Bible and believes it, this will bring to life what you have read, and for those whom do not believe..this film will probably be just another over-dramatic film (I've heard these terms from some folk thats why I mention it here).
Over all, the acting was great but of course I do agree with some when they say this is not a film that you watch over pop corn and soda pop...

However, I just wish they would have left the first version of Mel's film alone, how funny to complain about an accurate descriptive film (that includes violence) and yet we except pornography and MUCH more violence in everyday films...just go to show how our world is running today. I loved the film because it's my roots, whether or not people want to believe it, thats a different story...do you own research...

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An good introduction to Him

Read the Bible if you want to know more
about Jesus. And it is good for you if
you do.

The problem with Gibson's passion

I was one of those who was surprised by the extensive critiques of the film as anti-Jewish....believing the film simply reported what was in the Gospels.

Many years later, my understanding of the critique has deepened. Christianity has for two millenia treated Jews as responsible for the crucifixion, and utterly rejected Jesus' commandments to Love Thy God with all thy heart, and Love Thy Neigbhour, as well as other important commandments to not embrace Mammon, and not Exalt themselves. The history of Christianity is a history of Hate Thy Neighbour especially the Jewish Ones, and follow Mammon at all costs including the colonization of other nations, the slavery, exploitation and even genocide of their people (eg. the millions of Natives killed in the Americas).

How does Gibson's film feed the anti-Jesus practices of Christianity? It focuses on the Church's teachings that Jesus' suffering 'paid' for humanity's sins, so that those who 'believe' in Him are 'saved', whereas those who do not, especially the Jews, go to Hell. Simply put, Jesus never said or encouraged such absurd notions. On the contrary, He specifically said 'I come NOT to save the world...'. and His parable of the Pharisee and the tax-collector specifically contradicts the arrogance of Christians who imagine they are already 'saved' because they believe in Him as the 'universal' Saviour, when He Himself contradicted these notions.

By focussing morbidly on the beatings, torture, and crucifixion of Jesus, carried out by sadistic Romans, not Jewish priests (who simply wanted Him dead), Gibson encourages precisely the wrong teachings of the Church, which Jesus' own statements deny and contradict. No doubt it is based on a sincere effort by Gibson to portray what he has been taught, but those teachings are a distortion of what Jesus Christ Himself said. But then it is foolish to expect a Hollywood star - later exposed as an anti-Jew in his arrest in California in a drunken state making rabidly anti-Jewish ravings - to understand, let alone convey, the true teachings of one of the great Masters...

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