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The Passion of the Christ (DVD)

 

Description: Genre: Documentary - Religious / Theatrical Release: 2004 / Director: Mel Gibson / Actors: James Caviezel, Maia ... more
The Passion of the Christ (DVD) ... Morgenstern, Monica Bellucci ... / DVD released 31 August, 2004 at Icon Home Entertainment / Features of the DVD: PAL / After all the controversy has subsided, Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ will remain a force to be reckoned with. In the final analysis, "Gibson's Folly" is an act of personal bravery and commitment on the part of its director, who self-financed this $25-30 million production to preserve his artistic goal of creating The Passion of Christ ("Passion" in its original context meaning "suffering") as a quite literal, in-your-face interpretation of the final 12 hours in the life of Jesus, scripted almost directly from the Gospels (and spoken in Aramaic and Latin with a relative minimum of subtitles) and presented as a relentless, 126-minute ordeal of torture and crucifixion. For Christians and non-Christians alike, this film does not "entertain" and it's not a film that one can "like" or "dislike" in any conventional sense. (It is also emphatically not a film for children or the weak of heart.) Rather, The Passion is a cinematic experience that serves an almost singular purpose: to show the scourging and death of Jesus Christ in such horrifically graphic detail (with Gibson's own hand pounding the nails in the cross) that even non-believers may feel a twinge of sorrow and culpability in witnessing the final moments of the Son of God, played by Jim Caviezel in a performance that's not so much acting as a wilful act of submission, so intense that some will weep not only for Christ, but for Caviezel's unparalleled test of endurance. If one judges what is on the screen (so gloriously served by John Debney's score and Caleb Deschanel's cinematography), there is fuel for debate about the film's alleged anti-Semitic slant but no obvious malice aforethought; the Jews under Caiphas are just as guilty as the barbaric Romans who carry out the execution, especially after Gibson excised (from the subtitles, if not the soundtrack) the film's most controversial line of dialogue. If one accepts that Gibson's intentions are sincere, The Passion can be accepted for what it is: a gruelling, straightforward (some might say unimaginative) and extremely violent depiction of The Passion, guaranteed to render devout Christians speechless while it intensifies their faith. Non-believers are likely to take a more dispassionate view, and some may resort to ridicule. But one thing remains undebatable: with The Passion of the Christ, Gibson puts his money where his mouth is. You can praise or damn him all you want, but you've got to admire his chutzpah. --Jeff Shannon

Newest Review: ... is such a horribly violent film that for me it took every little bit of religion out of the film because I could not see past ... more

 ... the blood and gore. James Caviezel plays Jesus and I think he played the part very well and has a good look for this part. The costumes and speech are I think accurate for the time of Jesus. The film is spoken in a mixture of Aramaic and common Latin all the way through and there are subtitles in English and I thought this was silly and annoying. I don't mind subtitled films at all but I think that the Passion Of the christ should have been filmed in English because Aramaic is an ancient language that not many peopl...more

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Premium Review The Passion of the Christ (DVD): This film overstepped the mark (602 words)
by i_am_joy - written on 09.03.08 (Very useful, 63 readings)
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I watched The Passion Of The Christ last night with my friend because I had heard so much about it that Iwanted to see what all the fuss was about. I was shocked at how horribly Jesus last few hours were portrayed. I think when Mel Gibson had the idea of Passion Of The Christ he was trying to shock people and the only way he knew how to do it was to turn the story of the crucifixion into a nasty snuff movie. I don't argue that Jesus suffered at the end of his life. I am a Christian and am aware of the pain He went through to save us but this film is horrible. The plot of the film is basically the crucifixion that we all know about and events that ...

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Premium Review What's all the fuss about? (855 words)
by l-m-n-o-p - written on 07.08.07 (Very useful, 91 readings)
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I watched Mel Gibson’s controversial The Passion of the Christ when it was on TV on Easter Sunday (yes, I have that much of a backlog of reviews!). I’m not religious at all, but I figured this would be the most fitting time to watch it, it there is such a time. Obviously, it tells the story of the final 12 hours in the life of Jesus of Nazareth, from his betrayal in the Garden of Gethsemane, to his final crucifixion. Along the way we see flashbacks of Jesus’s life, including the last supper and his teaching on the mountain, and we follow Mary Magdalene, somebody and somebody as they follow Jesus’s torturous final moments. That’s probably the ...

kenjohn
Premium Review The Passion of the Christ (DVD): It Is As It Was (2243 words)
by kenjohn - written on 29.01.05 (Very useful, 58 readings)
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~ ~ It’s hard to recall when a film last caused such a furore of criticism and comment in the media (both good and bad) as this two-hour plus depiction of Christ’s last hours on earth, “The Passion Of The Christ”. (Well, maybe Fahrenheit 911!) ~ ~ Mel Gibson, the famous all-action actor (and devout Christian), decided he wanted to make a movie about Christ’s Passion, from the time of his betrayal by Judas Iscariot in the Garden of Gethsemane to his death on the Cross at Calvary at the hands of the Jews and Romans. But the backing (or the motivation) to make such a movie was lacking in present-day Hollywood, so Gibson took the almost unprecedented decision to ...

 
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