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What didn’t you like about the film? Michael thought that the Agony in the Garden was poorly done, and said last night that the Herod scene was “silly.” (His word!) Et vous?

What did you particularly like about this film? Artistically, theologically…anything.

At First Things, from Russell Hittinger and Elizabeth Lev Ultimately, The Passion of the Christ is about witnessing and bearing witness. On one level, the film is calculated to make us want to turn away and go home. At the outset, Jesus tells his disciples in the garden that he doesn’t want them to see…

At the New Republic Beneath all the God-talk by Gibson is a commercial enterprise. Gibson’s film career has been anchored in glorification of violence (the Mad Max movies) and in preposterous overstatement of the actual occurrence of violence (the Lethal Weapon movies). Gibson knows the sad Hollywood lesson–for which audiences are ultimately to blame–that glorifying…
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