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That Mel Gibson film...
Feb. 24th, 2004 07:05 pmThe Passion of Christ seems to be turning into the latest tempest shaking the old flist, following hard on the heels of homosexual marriage and...what was before before that?
I haven't seen this film, and I don't know whether I will see it or not, but I just want to comment on a few of the opinions I've seen floating around.
I'm not sure, first of, that any human actor can portray Jesus, who while being human, was god, and perfectly good. Isn't it like making an image? And I know it's not in the context of worship, but...when I think 'Frodo', my visual nowadays is of Elijah Wood. Bother me and my wretched visual memory!
The violence would not be my issue with it. Roman crucifixion was the most barabarous and horrible method of execution the human mind had devised at that time. Added to that, the being utterly rejected by God, having been holy and in perfect communion with Him up till then--while being God, and don't ask me to explain that one. (Heck, I believe counter-intuitive things every day of the week for my bread and butter (try quantum physics for size, ugh). I would expect God to be counter-intuitive too.)
That was hell. Literally.
Speaking of which, why oh why is Satan female? If Gibson is supposedly creating a true-to-the-source account, then why has he introduced this unwarrented interpretation? I don't know if that's the Anti-Woman Version, he's got, but Satan is male in my Bible.
I don't know whether Gibson agress with his father's opinion on the Holocust, but I wish he would state that he doesn't. It turned me literally sick when I read that quotation from his father (the one about all the Polish Jews going to the Bronx, rather than Bergen-Belsen and Auschwitz).
I hope this film isn't going to stir up anti-Semitism, which unfortunately there is still far too much of around; I feel like apologising for the persecution of Jews done in the name of my God and my religion. Those who shouted the name of Christ and did the deeds of Satan, I want no part of you.
Yes, the Jews killed Jesus, but so did the Chinese and the British and the native Australians and the Southern Baptists and the Free Church. So did I. That visual I've heard tell of, where the hand driving in the nail is Gibson's hand, is chilling to me.
My hands, bitten nails, carbon black and solder burns on the fingertips, knotwork ring on my third finger, 'NUCLUER ASSIGN.' scrawled across the back of the left one (I never said I could spell)--my hands did that as surely as they connected up the wires to the mass spectrometer this afternoon.
Well, if the point of that film was to make me think, and/or send me to my knees, it has worked.
I haven't seen this film, and I don't know whether I will see it or not, but I just want to comment on a few of the opinions I've seen floating around.
I'm not sure, first of, that any human actor can portray Jesus, who while being human, was god, and perfectly good. Isn't it like making an image? And I know it's not in the context of worship, but...when I think 'Frodo', my visual nowadays is of Elijah Wood. Bother me and my wretched visual memory!
The violence would not be my issue with it. Roman crucifixion was the most barabarous and horrible method of execution the human mind had devised at that time. Added to that, the being utterly rejected by God, having been holy and in perfect communion with Him up till then--while being God, and don't ask me to explain that one. (Heck, I believe counter-intuitive things every day of the week for my bread and butter (try quantum physics for size, ugh). I would expect God to be counter-intuitive too.)
That was hell. Literally.
Speaking of which, why oh why is Satan female? If Gibson is supposedly creating a true-to-the-source account, then why has he introduced this unwarrented interpretation? I don't know if that's the Anti-Woman Version, he's got, but Satan is male in my Bible.
I don't know whether Gibson agress with his father's opinion on the Holocust, but I wish he would state that he doesn't. It turned me literally sick when I read that quotation from his father (the one about all the Polish Jews going to the Bronx, rather than Bergen-Belsen and Auschwitz).
I hope this film isn't going to stir up anti-Semitism, which unfortunately there is still far too much of around; I feel like apologising for the persecution of Jews done in the name of my God and my religion. Those who shouted the name of Christ and did the deeds of Satan, I want no part of you.
Yes, the Jews killed Jesus, but so did the Chinese and the British and the native Australians and the Southern Baptists and the Free Church. So did I. That visual I've heard tell of, where the hand driving in the nail is Gibson's hand, is chilling to me.
My hands, bitten nails, carbon black and solder burns on the fingertips, knotwork ring on my third finger, 'NUCLUER ASSIGN.' scrawled across the back of the left one (I never said I could spell)--my hands did that as surely as they connected up the wires to the mass spectrometer this afternoon.
Well, if the point of that film was to make me think, and/or send me to my knees, it has worked.
