And hi Serai - we seem to have different ways of approaching the issue of violence in recent movies - what do you think of Tarantino, KILL BILL I and II, especially?? For me it was really interesting to see that THE PASSION OF CHRIST is as much a visual and "language"-experience as an attempt to make a film about the suffering of Jesus with a spiritual dimension. Caviezel is wonderful ... And I do think it is an honest film, not true to the historical Jesus - as much as we know of him - but true to a Christian iconography which has been shaping the faith of many people since the Middle-Ages. Jesus does not come across as a superhuman to me in this movie, rather as a human being with an extraordinary strength to endure (which is also where this movie tells me something about Frodo and Sam, btw - not that I mean to imply in any way that they are Christ figures :)). All the best - Calanthe
Re: Jesus films
we seem to have different ways of approaching the issue of violence in recent movies - what do you think of Tarantino, KILL BILL I and II, especially??
For me it was really interesting to see that THE PASSION OF CHRIST is as much a visual and "language"-experience as an attempt to make a film about the suffering of Jesus with a spiritual dimension. Caviezel is wonderful ... And I do think it is an honest film, not true to the historical Jesus - as much as we know of him - but true to a Christian iconography which has been shaping the faith of many people since the Middle-Ages. Jesus does not come across as a superhuman to me in this movie, rather as a human being with an extraordinary strength to endure (which is also where this movie tells me something about Frodo and Sam, btw - not that I mean to imply in any way that they are Christ figures :)).
All the best -
Calanthe