New Documentary on 'The Passion of the Christ'

[whatsitmean]

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[nebula]

It is understandable that Gibson, being a Catholic, would have a Catholic bent in the movie.

However, when I saw the movie, although I can see how it would appear as if Mary was co-redemptrx, I could also see the movie showing the Passion thorugh Mary's eyes (stories often do this - tell the story fromt he point of view of one of the characters).

Many of the ways Mary reacted were ways a mother possibly would react in such circumstances.

So, I kind-of took those things with a grain of salt.

The real important element of the film was for us to understand exactly what it meant to be flogged and crucified so that we can truly appreciate what He went through for us.

That's what I came out of the film with, anyway.

[Constant]

I don

[whatsitmean]

Here is a little more expalination. I hope I have put this in a way does not make anyone think I am mean spirited or anything.

Typically people will understand the characters and the movie in the context of what they can relate to, so it is difficult to try to say that Gibson may have had something entirely different in mind when he wrote the script.

Character development was not a strong point of the movie anyway, which is serious draw back, especially for his main character. Who would make a movie to strengthen people

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Artistic liscence.

Gibson was inserting a lot of symbolism into the movie.

For instance, in the Garden, we know that Jesus was comforted by an angel. What Gibson did instead was to portray the symbolism of Scripture rather than the historic element of Scripture by showing Satan's tormenting of Christ and then portraying the fulfillment of prophecy with the serpant striking Christ's heal and Christ crushing the serpant's head.

The impish baby scene was again one of symbolism. I read an interview where Gibson explained it was meant to show Satan basically rubbing salt in Christ's wounds, adding insult to injury, by showing such a corruption. Gibson explained, "What is more beautiful than a woman with her baby?" But here was - yuck!

I agree it was weird. But he wanted to show the contrast between Satan and of Christ - or something like that.