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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Nim: [QB] Saw it, was moved and shaken by it, almost as much as from watching "Irrev�rsible" (also with Monica Belucci). I loved hearing Aramaic and L atin spoken by trained tongues, it lended a not insignificant degree of authenticity to the project. Since most people know the plot, there can't be spoilers per se, but there are some details I'd like to bring up, anyway. When Jesus is being tortured with the "cat-o'nine-tails", we see Satan (<a href="http://www.imdb.com/gallery/ss/0335345/Ss/0335345/1202.jpg?path=pgallery&path_key=Celentano,%20Rosalinda">Rosalinda Celentano</a>) walking past the crowd, cradling a weird, demon-like infant that turns and giggles at the sight of the torture. Was this supposed to be the Antichrist? Or was it just some random wickedness, added via creative liberty on Gibson's part, like the similar demons that haunted Judas? It seemed too deliberate to just be that, that's why it stuck to me. Second, the romans standing closest to Jesus (at the cross), the ones most reluctant to make him suffer, decided to give Jesus some water, from a sponge stuck on a spear. Wasn't this supposed to be vinegar, if I recall my gospels correctly? Anyway, I've read about this production before watching the movie, there was a swedish journalist that mentioned some details about Mel Gibson and James Caviezel I didn't know before, such as them both belonging to controversial renegade outshoots of catholicism, both have very strict religious beliefs, apparently Mel's father is a holocaust revisionist and Caviezel has been quoted as claiming the Virgin Mary has revealed herself to him. That being said, I didn't get the impression that this movie was antisemitic; true, more blaim for Jesus' death was put on the jewish priesthood than on Pontus Pilate, but the jews as a group weren't satirized or attacked, nor their religion. In fact, many of the people criticizing the affair were jews, as well as Simon, the man put to help Jesus carry the cross. All in all, it felt like an important movie, nothing you stand up and applaud and cheer about, but very moving. There were some flashbacks of other moments in Jesus' life, but they were few and far between. I should've liked to have seen more of that, as well as more of his deeds and actions after the resurrection (like in the old <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075520/">Jesus of Nazareth</a>, with superb Robert Powell). Thoughts? Answers? [/QB][/QUOTE]
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