The Passion of the Christ (Full Screen Edition)
by Mel Gibson
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Actor: Christo Jivkov, Francesco De Vito, James Caviezel, Maia Morgenstern, Monica BellucciDirector: Mel Gibson
Brand: TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: Hebrew (Original Language); English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled)
Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 126 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-08-31
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: 20th Century Fox
DVD Reviews of The Passion of the Christ (Full Screen Edition)
DVD Review: not what I expected
Summary: 4 Stars
This is a good film all in all, and I've not seen it before till this year. I had heard bad things about it, that it was intenitonally anti-Semitic or that it was nothing more than a bloody Jesus snuff film, but I dediceded to watch this film just to be fair.
It is definitely views the Crucifiction from a more Catholic viewpoint, complete with extra-biblical imagery (crows eating the eye of a thief after he mocks Jesus, Mary Magdalene being equated with the sinful woman that Jesus rescues from stoning, which may or may not be nothing more than medieval stories).
Unlike alot of other movies depicting the Crucifiction, the imagery used here is horrific and shocking, but never gratuitous as in a slasher film. The banality of evil is not glossed over, just as in Gibson's other film Apocalypto. The evil is not redeemed not by cheap moralism, but by Jesus character as a figure that actually believed in what he said, in his life and in his death. Gibson's cleverly interposes pictures of Jesus teachings in with scenes of the crucifiction. A cut to less bloody times with birds chirping on a sunny, grassy hill, and Jesus preaching the Sermon on the Mount, with his teaching to love your enemies, is juxtaposed with Jesus bloody and dying, and praying to God to forgive his executioners because of their ignorance: the teaching has been fulfilled.
Also, I can somewhat understand the appeal of Maran devotion. Throughout the film, Mary's story is weaved with the story of Jesus to reveal the early Christian community participating in the life of Jesus and his suffering, not something in an isolated manner that they sit back and watch. After Peter's denial, he has a mental breakdown, the women-disciples try to comfort him. It is a deeply human appreciation that I don't think alot of Protestants would initially understand, the "Communion of Saints" is more than a sunday-morning soundbite in a creed.
My only critique is that it portrays Pontius Pilate as being a rather sympathetic character- at most he is a moral coward faced with two difficult choices. Honestly the biblical accounts dont' give alot of evidence either way, although historically Pontius Pilate wasn't know for being very humane. On the other hand, it doesn't gloss over the cruelty of the Romans. The Romans are portrayed as mostly savage thugs, with a few sympathetic characters. Likewise, not every Jew in the Sanhedrin is portrayed as being hopelessly wicked, although they are generally portrayed as pompous religious fanatics. King Herod is portrayed as being a demented man-child, which seems to be accurate to the biblical account as well.
DVD Review: A Very, Very Contraversial Religous Film Indeed!
Summary: 4 Stars
The Passion of the Christ has got to be one of the most contraversial films I have ever seen since the beginning of my very existance on this planet!
WARNING SPOLIERS AHEAD!
It all starts out with Jesus (Jim Caviezel whom I give major credit to for playing the doomed Jesus Christ)in some garden with his followers, and while Jesus is talking with the Devil, Judas goes to the Jewish officials and turns Jesus over to them. Jesus is arrested, not long after that, his mother Mary, tells his wife Mary Magdalene that her instint senses something wrong.
Later they find out that Jesus has been arrested, and the Jews are now surrounding Jesus, they yell at him for claiming that he was the son of God or the Messiah. Then Judas starts feeling very guilty and even has the devil stocking him, the next day Judas hangs himself in shame. Also that day the Jews turn Jesus over to the Romans, and they for some stupid reason choose to relase a sadistic, ugly, cycloptic murder over the gentil handsome Jesus.
Later on, Jesus is getting the crap beat out of him, then he's whipped so many times, then he has to carry his own cross on his back. And the Roman solders are pretty drunk from what I could see. Oh and it gets much more worst from here on, while Jesus is carrying his cross on his back, the Romans are whipping him even more, and he trips. Then they order a common man to help him carry the cross. At first he refuses, but then ends up feeling sorry for him in the end, just like a lot of other people.
Then Jesus is nailed to the cross and just sits up there asking God to forgive the Jews and the Romans for killing him, and just when he thinks that God has abadoned him, he dies.
SPOLIERS END HERE
I would like to say that watching this movie has made me feel very confused inside. But there are some obvious things to point out though.
1. When it came to Jesus getting tortured, of course I felt sorry for him, regardless of weither or not he was just a common man or the Son of God. And you can see how hard it was for Mary his mother to see her son suffer, and how hard it was for her to lose him. That could be said of anyone who has ever lost a child. But let's put it to you this way, if you don't want to see Jesus Christ get tortured, then don't watch this film. When watching a typical film, I could probably only stand to see someone get torchered for a half an hour, but not two hours, espically if it's Jesus. That poor guy didn't even shout a single insult at anyone, even when everyone chose the murder to be let go over him.
2. It didn't just show Jesus getting tortured, it also showed flashbacks of him helping people and asking them to forgive and love their enemies. I'm glad that Mel Gibson did put those flashbacks in there.
3. Now for the most contraverasial point I would like to bring up. First off I don't think that anyone should just go pointing fingers at the Jews, it not only sounds anti-Semetic, but you also left out an important detail, that the Romans were the ones who ordered the execution of Jesus Christ. Think about the time that this happeend, back then if anyone claimed to be the Son of God then yes he's very likely to die, it was as risky as Joan of Arc claiming that she could talk to God. Plus don't forget that the Romans were in charge of Israel at the time this happened, and don't also forget that the Romans believed in many Gods, so they probably would have put Jesus to death anyways.
4. And not all the Jews were against Jesus either, most of his followers were Jewish, and I can only recall one of them that betrayed Jesus, that was Judas. Paul may have looked like he betrayed Jesus, but in the end Jesus forgave him, because he knew that if Paul would have backed him up, then he too would have died. And I don't think that Jesus wanted to put his followers in jepordy, otherwize, who would be left to preach Jesus's teachings? Also Mary Jesus's mother was a Jew, and his so-called wife Mary Magdalene was a Jew, so were they against him? I also saw that some of the Jews actually felt sorry for him when he was walking with his cross on his back.
5. One last important detail, Jesus was a Jew, so anyone who hates Jews probably hates Jesus too.
That's all I have to say, and with all that said and done, I have nothing else to say, except, if you want to watch a very powerful film like The Passion of the Christ then do so.
DVD Review: Best gore flick of 2004!
Summary: 5 Stars
Wow, awesome! Possibly the highest budget splatter flick in history! Jesus gets wrung out like there's no tomorrow: beaten, brutalized, mutilated, and nailed to a giant freakin' cross! Oh dude, you just have to see the instance where the cat-o-nine-tails gets caught in his ribs and the guy just pulls it back like he's starting a lawnmower. Classic! Passion Of The Christ would make Fulci proud. A brutally good time for the whole family! Splatteriffic!DVD Review: Eh...Graphic, Silly and Stupid but Expertly Produced Technical Elements
Summary: 2 Stars
There's not much that hasn't already been said here, but basically this is a horror film (or Torture Porn for the "Saw"/"Hostel" crowd) that happens to be based on the Bible rather than any other book. If this film were based on historical evidence, no one would have even cared when this film came out and it would have just been a very violent Roman film similar to "300."
Instead, the film is based on one man's (Gibson) interpretation of the Bible, so it's allowed to throw facts out the window (the location of the wounds, nudity, etc. - it's all been said by hundreds of other people) and just show crazy amounts of carnage and brutality and disturbing visuals. It's fortunate the soundtrack is brilliant, the cinematography is masterful, and Jim Caviezel gives an amazing performance, otherwise this might come across as "Saw XIV: Mel Gibson Kills Jesus."
DVD Review: BEST MOVIE EVER ABOUT CHRIST; JPII: "BE NOT AFRAID." INCREDIBLE FEELING OF COURAGE & HOPE FROM THIS MOVIE!
Summary: 5 Stars
The absolute best movie about Jesus Christ, movie in general ever to be made. Hollywood and media fought tooth and nail to stop it. The more hollywood and USA media tried the more popular it became. As a matter of fact, Passion of the Christ is the number 1 most watched movie in the history on cinema, and has grossed nearly 2, that's 2 Billion so far....
The Passion has sold more copies, than any other movie in the history of cinama. this grand and true statistic is edited out of the news, 99% of the time to discourage sales. it has only continued to sell at lightening speed to this day. Truth, honesty and objectivity sells forever, as Gibson's Mega-epic will.
See this incredible masterpiece and be moved beyond the limits of your mind to feel a lifting of your troubles, and a new and so welcomed sense of courage come into your soul and heart. i have to/I need to watch the Passion at least once a year to rejuvinate my soul. See it for yourself.
Nothing you will ever watch in your life, will be as inordinately inspiring as Mel Gibson's "The Passion of the Christ."
Description of The Passion of the Christ (Full Screen Edition)
The Passion of the Christ focuses on the last twelve hours of Jesus of Nazareth's life. The film begins in the Garden of Olives where Jesus has gone to pray after the Last Supper. Jesus must resist the temptations of Satan. Betrayed by Judas Iscariot Jesus is then arrested and taken within the city walls of Jerusalem where leaders of the Pharisees confront him with accusations of blasphemy and his trial results in a condemnation to death.System Requirements: Running Time 127 MinFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre:?FOREIGN/LATIN Rating:?R UPC:?024543129912 Manufacturer No:?2222991After all the controversy and rigorous debate has subsided, Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ will remain a force to be reckoned with. In the final analysis, "Gibson's Folly" is an act of personal bravery and commitment on the part of its director, who self-financed this $25-30 million production to preserve his artistic goal of creating the Passion of Christ ("Passion" in this context meaning "suffering") as a quite literal, in-your-face interpretation of the final 12 hours in the life of Jesus, scripted almost directly from the gospels (and spoken in Aramaic and Latin with a relative minimum of subtitles) and presented as a relentless, 126-minute ordeal of torture and crucifixion. For Christians and non-Christians alike, this film does not "entertain," and it's not a film that one can "like" or "dislike" in any conventional sense. (It is also emphatically not a film for children or the weak of heart.) Rather, The Passion is a cinematic experience that serves an almost singular purpose: to show the scourging and death of Jesus Christ in such horrifically graphic detail (with Gibson's own hand pounding the nails in the cross) that even non-believers may feel a twinge of sorrow and culpability in witnessing the final moments of the Son of God, played by Jim Caviezel in a performance that's not so much acting as a willful act of submission, so intense that some will weep not only for Christ, but for Caviezel's unparalleled test of endurance.
Leave it to the intelligentsia to debate the film's alleged anti-Semitic slant; if one judges what is on the screen (so gloriously served by John Debney's score and Caleb Deschanel's cinematography), there is fuel for debate but no obvious malice aforethought; the Jews under Caiaphas are just as guilty as the barbaric Romans who carry out the execution, especially after Gibson excised (from the subtitles, if not the soundtrack) the film's most controversial line of dialogue. If one accepts that Gibson's intentions are sincere, The Passion can be accepted for what it is: a grueling, straightforward (some might say unimaginative) and extremely violent depiction of the Passion, guaranteed to render devout Christians speechless while it intensifies their faith. Non-believers are likely to take a more dispassionate view, and some may resort to ridicule. But one thing remains undebatable: with The Passion of the Christ, Gibson put his money where his mouth is. You can praise or damn him all you want, but you've got to admire his chutzpah. --Jeff Shannon
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