This is a response
to Doreen’s earlier post “review of THE PASSION OF THE CHRIST”:
Doreen’s post:
“The passion of
the Christ” seems like a pretty good artifact to look at when we study
Christianity and popular culture, we watched one short clip in earlier lecture,
and it is also mentioned in the reading for last week, which talks about
Christian video games. Just same as Doreen, I never watched it before, and
really impressed by the scenes, the bloody crucifixion really shocked me a lot!
The lecture in this week reminds me of this film, but no longer just about how
the religious content is being represented in movie, but also about the violence in Christian
tradition.
At around the
first 10 minutes of the movie, Jesus has been captured, and from there to the
end of the movie, there is a lot of direct depiction of detailed bloody tortures.
All of these scenes are extremely violent, the tortures and the crucifixion. Does
this movie also reflect the violence in Christian tradition? I do think so, Jesus
suffered for our sins, and his blood cleaned us, it is violent. And just as
Professor Harris mentioned in class, religion also becomes the best excuse for
violence. Some violence is on behalf of Jesus, and others are in the name of
Jesus.
There is even one
woman died during watching this movie, because of the violent and bloody scene.
The violence in Christian tradition is undeniable, but I also think the violence
in humanity is undeniable. It really makes me to think, maybe without the suffering,
we will never appreciate what we have.
The movie also
reveals the passion of Mel Gibson himself, making this film is a sort of his
personal devotion, and also his own interpretation of his faith. When people
expect forgiveness and love in Christian movies, he chose to focus on “suffering”.
Just as Doreen said, Gibson uses this movie to tell people that God is
suffering, and he is suffering for our sin.
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