Now you've heard this film is "anti-Semitism," I don't think it intends to promote this on any level. Using merely body gestures and eyes expressions, Caviezel did an excellent performance in expressing Jesus' mental state. Anyone who criticizes James Caviezel for being dull under the silicone make-up is missing the point. Yet the physical pain is so vividly and effectively illustrated that it moves me beyond any speech about peace and love. Artistically, "Passion" is unbalanced for it shows so much agony and brutality while almost no portion of peace and love, which Christianity promotes, can be found. It is indeed a movie about the suffering and pain Jesus undertakes, as there is almost no rest for us to breath. Passion is a perfect word for the subject matter Mel Gibson examines in this film. The film open's in the Garden of Olives where Jesus went to pray after the last supper. The Passion of the Christ is a film about the last twelve hours of the life of Jesus of Nazareth's. Judging this film "anti-Semitism" and "pornographically violent" is completely irrelevant for, what I believe, this film is dealing with more than the artistic, social, and religious contexts. I found it to be incredibly, moving, but spiritual film, despite the fact that it is graphically violent and detailed on the physical torture applied to Jesus. I recently viewed "The Passion of the Christ," director and produced by Mel Gibson.
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