DescriptionStudio product: TCFHE Release Date: 02/17/2009 Run time: 127 minutes Rating: RAmazon. com After all the controversy and rigorous debate has decreased, Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ will remain a force to be reckoned with. In the final analysis, the “madness of Gibson” is an act of bravery and commitment on the part of its director, who self-financed this $ 25-30 dollar production to preserve his artistic goal of creating the Passion of Christ ( “Passion” in this context means “suffering”) as a quite literal, in-your-face interpretation of the last 12 hours in the life of Jesus, scripted almost directly from the Gospels (spoken and Aramaic and Latin with a relative minimum of subtitles) and presented as a relentless one, 126-minute ordeal of torture and crucifixion. For Christians and non Christians, this film is not “fun” and this is not a film that can be “similar” and “dislike” in the conventional sense. (It is absolutely not a film for children or the faint of heart.) Instead, the passion is a cinematic experience that serves a nearly unique to show the scourging and death of Jesus Christ in such graphic detail terribly (with Gibson own hand pounding the nails in the cross) that even non-believers feel in May a twinge of sadness and guilt in the testimony of the last moments of the Son of God, played by Jim Caviezel in a performance that is not so much acting as a willful act of submission, so intense that some will weep not only for Christ, but for Caviezel unprecedented test of endurance. Leave it to the intelligentsia to debate the so-called fight against the film-Semitic slope, if we judge what is on the screen (so gloriously served by John Debney score and the cinematography of Caleb Deschanel), it is fuel for debate but no obvious malice aforethought: the Jews under Caiaphas 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 row over the controversial film dialogue. If one accepts that Gibson’s intentions are sincere, The Passion can be accepted for what it is: a grueling, simple (some might say unimaginative) and the representation of extreme violence of the Passion, guaranteed to render devout Christians speechless while it intensifies their faith. Non-believers are likely to have a more serene, and some may resort to ridicule. But one thing is undeniable: with The Passion of the Christ, Gibson put his money where his mouth is. You can rent or damn all you want, but you have to admire his nerve. – Jeff Shannon
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