Hmmm, there seems to be a lot of controversy about Mel Gibson's The Passion of Christ. Some people say the movie is moving, others say its violent and also anti semitic. Well obviously you would have to expect violence in the movie, it says so in the movie title itself "Passion -The sufferings of Jesus in the period following the Last Supper and including the Crucifixion, as related in the New Testament" (courtesy www.dictionary.com) This man was tortured, beaten and nailed on a cross.People have the tendency of dismissing it as just senseless violence in the movie. Well I think we fail to comprehend what a crucifixion can be like. Its not a pleasant thing, its something really horrible and terrible to have to go through. I know it easy to say the man was crucified but have you ever seen it. Well thanks to this movie you just get a taste of how such an ordeal would be like. How would some one describe such a painful process without delving into it and showing us how its done. Yes of course its violent, violence on a whole new level, quite different from the violence we're used to seeing on tv (mostly) Normally its bang bang, the guy is dead, not a whole torturous process of watching it being done. Sure we'd all love to escape it and rather not watch it but you can say this, if it was so painful to watch, imagine how it must have been to the person who got crucified. People say the movie is anti semitic because it portrays the jewish people as crucifying the christ, well here's a question didn't they really do that, there's no doubts about that is there? So this man went through all that pain, suffering and torture because he wanted to make a sacrifice, his final point to the world. So lets not forget why he endured all that.

xaries posted at 9:32 PM