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I’m trying to decide if my muted reaction to this film is due to all I’d read about it beforehand. I don’t think it was. I’m a big spoiler person – that is, I always read about movies before I see them (because time is precious, and I don’t want to waste mine) and in…

One point that the conversations about this film has exposed, once again, as if it needed even more exposure, is the brazen hypocrisy of cultural pundits. In short: every artist’s right to produce what he or she wants to produce is sacrosanct – except, this week, Mel Gibson’s. We needn’t worry our silly little heads…

A reader sends along this link to a discussion board over at Christianity Today

Seeing TPOTC We watch “The Passion” together, as Jesus gets slapped and beaten and scourged until his body is transformed from solid to liquid, with loose bunches of skin hanging as if from a reptile trying to molt. We watch His mother, of Hail Mary/lawn statue fame, become a flesh-and-blood mother, unable to help her…

Hundreds turn out to hear Da Vinci Code stuff On Sunday at the Pope exhibit (more on that later), we were standing in front of a display of Mass accoutrements, which include, on the explanation placard, a reproduction of Leonardo’s Last Supper. Two middle -aged woman walked up. One pointed to the figure of John…

Mark Shea has blogged at length on TPOTC

..that the comments are a little wacked. If you don’t see your comment, don’t panic, and don’t repost fifty times. I’m not deleting anything, but comments seem to be delayed in showing up, and at times simply disappear. I don’t know why. But just wait it out….

Just a quick, incomplete rundown of my reaction to specific critiques of the film: Film is weakened because of lack of context Well, as countless have pointed out, it’s a Passion Play. But what gives this critique weight is that the film is being presented by viewers as an evangelization tool. Passion Plays are generally…

First the anti-Semitism. I can very well see, very easily and sympathetically see how someone attuned to such matters could find much in the film to critique on this level. I don’t think that every critique of the film’s treatment of Jewish leadership is equivalent to a critique of the Gospels on this score. “Well,…

Before you start reading my thoughts, you should probably go read what Charlotte Allen has to say in the LA Times. Mel Gibson’s “The Passion of the Christ” may well be the best movie about Jesus Christ ever made. Yet, though he claimed to be striving for historical fidelity — to the point of re-creating…
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