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As a newly converted Catholic, I have spent much of the last year learning about the mysteries of the Bible. This film was a great help in that it gave me actual images which helped me better understand the events leading up to, and the act of, the crucifixtion of the Christ. I am grateful to Mel Gibson for sharing his visions of this blessed event. Anyone who is searching for a better understanding of God should see this film. I will watch it over and over during the Lenten season because it reminds me of God's Love in a way no other teaching has. It would, however, have been easier to watch if it had been scripted in the English language. The subtitles took my attention away from the events too often. Nonetheless, it is a powerful film and I highly recommend it.
Centering the movie on the last few hours of Christ's life and Jesus being crucified, the attention to the grusome beatings with whips, thorns and sharp objects being raked over His body has been the focal of the movie. Various additional details have been added for sensationalism to keep up the momentum of the said beatings elongated out of proportion to reality. Then after all the torture, he is crucified. Bringing people to tears because of the excruciating pain endured by Christ is not something that is entertaining in any shape or form. I would not recommend this DVD to anyone due to the wide range of reactions a viewer would experience, the main being disgust, horror and crying for our Savior. Not something a Christian needs to endure or be entertained in any way. We do not have to accept this movie as what actually happened because an event occurring over 2000 years ago can not be 100% accurate. What I would recommend to everyone is the The Star of Bethlehem by Larson wherein he used software that NASA uses. Read full review
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"Gibson's immersion in the blood of Christ is an act of faith filmed with a zealot's rapture." Rolling Stone - Peter Travers (03.18.2004) I have no alternative but to agree that Gibson is a dutiful director immersed in the blood of Jesus. However, I find his pattern of being either the star or director in films depicting torture & suffering through blood-letting of various kinds as heroic and/or martyring-disturbing. Such a pattern in a person's professional repertoire seems sadomasochistic. Those who enjoy SM, especially being voyeurs of sadistic acts upon willing masochists, could find much sport in this show of blood beyond the pale. Gibson's version & interpretation of the last 12 hours of the life of his own view of the grotesque Roman murder of Jesus of Nazareth is striking, remarkable & wreckless gore. His direction seems to focus upon torturing the Jewish religious leader with more attention on blaming Jewish people than brutal Romans who crafted crucifixion & the "art" of it as a publicly terrorizing campaign through which to control society. It seems Gibson must've used such religious passion to create this film, intending for it to be a tribute to his faith tradition. I certainly wouldn't allow any child to view such graphic display of mortal violence. I will not ever watch it again. I feel quite similarly about all of the other blood-sport films Gibson either directs or acts in as the martyr masochist, who becomes a hero for willingly suffering bloody brutality. That genre of film is far too interested in the pleasure of inflicting mortal pain & bloody suffering, as well as, the glory of putting oneself in the shoes of a masochist who deliberately places themself in the pathways of tortuous sadists. This review contains my values right up front. Movie watching is a hobby I do for pleasure & entertainment, as well as education. I can't enjoy Gibson's work. I find his films so repulsively violent that I don't want to participate by being a viewer. Regardless of my personal values, it does seem that creative art & passion that went into making this film succeed for many who are more well suited to stomach it. Whether I agree with the director's style of expressing his own religious martyr's final history is irrelevant to this review. Gibson went all out to put on this show. That deserves to be viewed & reviewed.Read full review
Christ was really passionate about his love in GOD. and wanted his fellow countryman to understand,love and believe in their GOD also. He traveled around the country while gathering his twelve disciples around him as he went. God had told him of what was to come but, CHRIST knew he was going to go to a better home with father in heaven.HE was to live in is FATHER'S KINDOM. and was ready for what ever was to come. HE prayed for GOD to give HIM strength to not fail HIS FATHER or HIS beliefs. The other Jew's were jelous of JUSUS and made plans to turn him over to the Romans for Scarifies. but the Romans refused leaving it to the Jews to pick between JESUS and Barbabas to be set free or to be sacrificed. the crowed picked piked Barabbas to be set free and JUSES to be sacrificed. This is a must see for ever Christian but not for the faint at heart for it does get a little graphic.Read full review
I loved the Movie! Why? Yes, It is just a movie. But it is based on a REAL LIFE EVENT. The GREATEST EVENT IN HUMAN HISTORY! The death, burial, and resurrection of the Saviour--Jesus Christ! Maybe you have heard about Jesus dying for your sins. It never made sense. Then let me help you. Watch the movie and while Christ suffers the beatings and mockery and crucifixion and yes, even death, remind yourself He did it willing for you. He had to for you to go to Heaven! For everytime you lied--that made you a liar, every time you stold-- irrespective of value, every time you blasphemed His Holy Name-- G.D. or Jesus Christ, every time you lusted after man or woman-- lust is adultery (Matt. 5:27,28), every time you hated-- murder (1John 3:15). God sees you in your sins as a lying, thieving, blaspheming, adulterous, murder at heart. You have to face this Jesus depicted in this movie when he judges the world in righteousness. Can you honestly say you are a good person if you have broken His Holy laws (Ten Commandments)? You might say "So, I'm not perfect". Actually it's worse than that... Sin isn't just doing things we shouldn't. It's also not doing the things we should. "Anyone Who Knows the Good He ought to do and doesn't do it, sins." (James 4:17) There's more... Suppose we could put a device in your brain that would record all your private thoughts for a week... and then play them on a movie screen for your friends and family to see. That would be embarrassing! "God knows the secrets of the Heart" (Psalm 44:21) Well ... compared to some people I'm a Saint (ex.. hitler, sudaam, kkk, osama). Besides, even if you sin just 5 times a day... In one year, that's 1,825 sins! if yu live to be seventy, you'll have broken God's law over 127,000 times! You'll have to answer for every sin on Judgment day, when "each of us will give an account of himself to God." (Romans 14:12). But won't God just forgive me? Try that in court... I know I keep breaking the law. But can't you just let it slide? Only a corrupt judge would do that. A good judge would say... Justice demands that you pay for your crimes. God is a Holy, Righteous Judge. He hates sin! Jesus warned that God, in His wrath, will cast all who sin against Him into eternal Fire "Where there will be Weeping and Gnashing of teeth." (Matthew 13:42) You might be asking Then how can ANYONE GET TO HEAVEN? There's only one way... If a SINLESS PERSON offered to take your punishment, then justice would be served and you could go free! God loves you so much, He sent His Son Jesus to suffer and die for your sins... ...Then He Rose from the grave- defeating death! You can't earn eternal life. It is God's gift to all who humble themselves and come to Jesus. "Turn to God in repentance and have faith in the Lord Jesus" (Acts 20:21). He will forgive your sins and give you a new Heart! "If anyone is in Christ, He is a new Creation!" (2 Cor. 5:17) Then read the Bible and obey it. Find a good church to help you grow and tell otheres the Good news of your eternal salvation in Jesus Christ. -- Jeremy , a experiencer of the forgiving power of Christ Jesus.Read full review
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