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Passion of the Christ, The
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 Movie Review: The Passion of the Christ (2004)
The Story: This film tells the brutal, heart shattering, sad story of the last 12 hours in the life of Jesus (Caviezel), on the day of his crucifixion in Jerusalem.
My Review: Well, I?ll be honest I wasn?t going to review this movie, but it seems that if a person watches this film and doesn?t automatically form an opinion about it they will go to hell and burn for their sins. Ok so I?m obviously being sarcastic, but I must say that never would I have imagined the entire world speaking about Jesus as much as they do now. I think that?s great though, after all the man did die for all of us no?
So what do I believe in? What did I think about the movie? How did the movie effect me you ask? Well, lets find out shall we?
When I was a kid I grew up going to catholic Church every Sunday and like many others I was baptized and received my Communion. I even went to Catholic School from the 1st to 3rd grade. Anyway, I don?t remember exactly what age it was because I was a kid, but due to personal reasons and my dad and mom going through some break up moment and getting a divorce soon after I stopped going to Church all together. I was a kid and I didn?t mind going to Church at the time, so it was nice, but to be honest I didn?t mind sleeping in on a Sunday morning if you know what I?m mean, so I just stopped going. I?ll tell you one thing I do remember though. Me, my mom and my brother always went to Church on Sunday?s while my dad stood home and watched his Tarzan. He loved that show. Sunday was tradition in my home. We went to Church and my dad stood home. We use to bring a long Italian bread and some spice ham and American cheese and it was slammin eating a sandwich with fry eggs. Ah the memories. :D
So yea?that?s how it was in my home going to church on Sundays. And now my mom is a Christian and I don?t even go to Church. I do believe in God though and I pray everyday before going to bed and things like that, but I guess you could say that I?m not very religious like many other?s may be. To me I don?t have a problem with anyone?s beliefs though. I think that people should respect other people?s faith as long as they are not harming anyone its all good to me. Who am I tell anyone what or whom they should believe in? So, as long as people are happy I don?t see the problem in having their own beliefs and faith. I wish more people would understand that instead of preaching and trying to convince others that their way is the only right way of doing things and other?s are wrong with their way of thinking because its all bullshit! Nobody really knows anything. People have assumptions and people have facts that THEY consider fact about what ever beliefs they think is right, but nobody knows shit unless they lived in that time and are still alive today to tell about it.
Ok I guess I should talk about the actual movie now. As you can see though this review is not my normal type of movie review and the reason for that is simple?.what can I really say about this movie? Honestly. Basically with out giving to much away, the movie goes like this?we witness the last 12 hours in the life of Jesus. During this time Jesus as well as many others are having flash backs of what he spoke of and what has happened leading to this day. Now while this is all going on Jesus is tortured, spit on, whipped, beat into a pulse, punched, stabbed, and left for dead, only to continue the whole process again and again and again. It?s a very powerful movie and it did make me personally think.
I will say that I didn?t personally cry while watching it, but it did make me feel sad inside. Plus a women sitting exactly three seats next to me was crying and even screamed ?JESUS!? a few times while he was getting beat down, so you watch a movie like this and see how emotional some people get while watching it and you will understand why I feel that everyone should go see the movie for themselves. Have I seen more blood in other movies? YES. But you have to understand that to many people this happened, so its not like your enjoying a typical movie eating pop corn and having a few laughs. NO! You are watching something that is more real then any other movie could ever be. You want to debate that this was Mel Gibson?s vision? You want to tell me that none of this happened? You have that right to think and say what ever you want, but I?m telling you how many people saw this movie and how I saw the movie as it really happening. Even if it was just the part about Jesus getting tortured it happened. And if people want to say why did Mel Gibson have to go so far in showing the crucifixion its because he wanted to prove a point. Since when have you heard of a crucifixion being nice and neat? NEVER! Its fucked up and that?s what Mel wanted to show us, he wanted people to open up their minds and you know what he made me think so the movie did its job.
I?ll be honest I thought it was going to be hard to follow what was going on because incase anyone doesn?t know, I hate reading sub titles while watching a movie. Infact this was the first time that I watched a complete movie with subtitles. I usually wait for it to come out on DVD, so that I could click the button that makes the actors speak in English, but for this movie I made an exception since I wanted to see it and I must say that once the movie started I was intrigued and so into it that reading the entire time didn?t effect me one bit. I was into it for the full 2 hours plus. Infact I wanted more. I wanted more detail too. There were a few things that I kept thinking about through out this movie.
Like there was the devil who I debated about with my moms because I honestly thought it was a HE and found out later it was actually a SHE. Yeah I?m F?N dumb, but she didn?t have a figure that?s appealing to me?what can I say. lol. She reminded me of that guy from the movie ?Powder? though. And there was this part where she is carrying a devilish baby and I don?t remember reading that in any bible, so I guess that was to show us Mel?s vision of the devil saying that he takes care of his kids where as Jesus was being tortured and his father wasn?t there for him? I dunno, but that had me thinking and I still don?t know what it meant. Oh and there were also devilish little kids that were F?N scary! Little devil kids scare the shit outta me! I?m being serious.
Final thoughts: I think this is a powerful film. I understand why Mel showed all the torturing he did. I just wish the movie took more time to develop itself. After seeing how it ended I wanted more and I?m thinking if there would ever be a sequel to it. At first I thought, ?Hell no! This is a one time thing, this movie wont be touched?, but I cant explain it, I just felt like there was so much more to the story that needed to be told. I know I should just read the bible again and I will, but I?m just saying, it would have been good if Mel would have had a sequel already in mind so that he could have took his time more to develop everything that lead to all of this and then continue from there. I will say that I think everyone should check out this movie. If you notice I didn?t mention the whole Jews debate and all of that and do you want to know why? Because its stupid and people should know that just because a group of people may have done something does NOT mean that their race is being put down or anything like that, it simply means that like all races some have their good as well as their bad. So I didn?t even want to talk about that and I didn?t get into all the main people like Mary etc because I want to read the bible and really see how accurate this film is. The movie made me think though and in many ways was some deep shit. C?mon?a women playing the part of the devil? Tell me women don?t have a lot of powers that are used for pure evil? See, this movie made me think. :D
Grade:
 10 Out Of 10
I?m not grading a movie like this any lower. What do you think I?m stupid? I?m not going to hell. lol.
Extra thoughts: I was thinking about it and even if no one believes in Jesus or has faith in the man, answer me this if you could. How did it all start? Serious, Im not preaching I just mean from the beginning someone had to make this world right? So don?t you think there is a higher power some place that created the world. We couldn?t have all just appeared here and if we all did?exactly how then? I guess my point is, even if I don?t go to Church anymore I still believe because there had to be something out there that started it all. Even Jesus has a father, but who made him? Its like a question that will never be answered I guess. Oh well, go watch the movie. Believe it or not this was the first time that they didn?t show any trailers before it started. I was thinking how could they show parts to other movies before this one and I guess they couldn't. |
29 Feb 2004 by The Franchise
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