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Passion of the Christ
Feb. 4th, 2005 11:03 pmJust finished watching Passion of the Christ. A few thoughts.
(1) Yes, it's violent. No, I don't agree with the cadres claiming it to be an orgy in violence. A lot of that violence is described in christian canon and mythos. You will end up a mess if you receive -- I cannot remember how many lashes the mythos tells us -- by the whips normally used for that kind of business. It is a passion play like so many other; but in this case focusing on the not-quite-so-fluffy things that a sunday school passion would have chosen.
(2) Languages. I like 'em. It would be interesting to read about the decision procedures behind their evaluation of spoken latin, seeing as scholars disagree wildly on pronunciations at that time. (The lack of phonographs is dire. =)
But I love any film that has me listening intently at the lines, picking out the latin inflections and piecing them together to confirm the subtitling or understanding the non-subtitled lines. Latin WHEEEEEEEEEEE!
Other than that a rather bland and .. almost stereotypical display of the passion. I didn't see anything that'd surprised me. I like the more .. apologetic stance of Jesus Christ Superstar with the Judas who grows increasingly disappointed at Jesus lack of interest in the immediate changes necessary and ends up fighting him and getting driven into the hands of a politician/high priest who promises him all the resources to fight poverty and despair he's been looking for all the time -- and the Pilate who only really wants to keep the peace and is faced by an incomprehensible reaction from masses of people on another of these eternal Messiah-cultist that keep arising every half year or so...
(1) Yes, it's violent. No, I don't agree with the cadres claiming it to be an orgy in violence. A lot of that violence is described in christian canon and mythos. You will end up a mess if you receive -- I cannot remember how many lashes the mythos tells us -- by the whips normally used for that kind of business. It is a passion play like so many other; but in this case focusing on the not-quite-so-fluffy things that a sunday school passion would have chosen.
(2) Languages. I like 'em. It would be interesting to read about the decision procedures behind their evaluation of spoken latin, seeing as scholars disagree wildly on pronunciations at that time. (The lack of phonographs is dire. =)
But I love any film that has me listening intently at the lines, picking out the latin inflections and piecing them together to confirm the subtitling or understanding the non-subtitled lines. Latin WHEEEEEEEEEEE!
Other than that a rather bland and .. almost stereotypical display of the passion. I didn't see anything that'd surprised me. I like the more .. apologetic stance of Jesus Christ Superstar with the Judas who grows increasingly disappointed at Jesus lack of interest in the immediate changes necessary and ends up fighting him and getting driven into the hands of a politician/high priest who promises him all the resources to fight poverty and despair he's been looking for all the time -- and the Pilate who only really wants to keep the peace and is faced by an incomprehensible reaction from masses of people on another of these eternal Messiah-cultist that keep arising every half year or so...
