The Passion of the Christ (Full Screen Edition)

The Passion of the Christ (Full Screen Edition)
by Mel Gibson

The Passion of the Christ (Full Screen Edition)
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Actor: Christo Jivkov, Francesco De Vito, James Caviezel, Maia Morgenstern, Monica Bellucci
Director: Mel Gibson
Brand: CAVIEZEL,JAMES
Cinematographer: Caleb Deschanel
Producer: Mel Gibson
Writer: Mel Gibson
Producer: Bruce Davey
Producer: Enzo Sisti
Producer: Stephen McEveety
Writer: Benedict Fitzgerald
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: Hebrew (Original Language); English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled)
Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 127 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: Nothing new here
Summary: 1 Stars

If you like to see a mean beaten mercilessly for 2.5 hours, this is the movie for you.

As far as the story goes.... what story? There is nothing here that we haven't heard a millions times -- it is just re-rendered in ultra-graphic, sadistic technicolor. Yes, there are many violent movies out there, but few that make that violence quite so intimate and relentless. I haven't counted, but I'd wager that there is maybe 10 minutes of footage where Jesus is not being beaten, and blood dripping from those wounds. It is pure cruelty. Why anyone would enjoy watching this is beyond me.

Yes, other movies are violent, but this is typically a device used for contrast; a price for wisdom gained. As I have stated, there is no wisdom gained here. There is almost no footage dedicated to the teachings of this great man. There is nothing imaginative or transcendent about this film, it is just cruelty on celluloid. A spectacle of his supreme sacrifice.

The shooting of this film in Aramaic, Hebrew and Latin is just a joke. Again, it adds nothing to the story. It is like putting the Irish Flag on an American beer, and passing it off as a "Premium Lager". Somehow, because this film was shot in cryptic languages, this makes it more "official" than those other Jesus films made in English... The Irish flag may fool those buffoons with a poor palate, but for the real connoisseurs -- they aren't fooling anyone.

This movie imparts nothing, except that we should feel guilty about what ancient people's did to a great man. Guilt is cheap. Violence is cheap. Give me Wisdom, Solomon asked for no less.

DVD Review: The Passion of Christ
Summary: 5 Stars

I Love this movie, but of course i cry everytime i watch it. Anyone who is a believer, must feel the pain as they whip this man. I would whis everyone to watch it.

DVD Review: A Review by Dr. Joseph Suglia
Summary: 2 Stars

Mel Gibson's THE PASSION OF THE CHRIST (2004) is a personal film. An exceedingly, excessively, earnestly personal film. "Personal" to the point of autobiography. It is not merely a personal reinterpretation of the Jesus myth, but a hand-wringingly serious APPROPRIATION of that myth for the sake of a deeply personal program.

What that "deeply personal program" may be, is worth pondering. The film focuses exclusively on the condemnation, scourging, and crucifixion of Jesus of Nazareth; the rest of his life is bracketed out. We see snapshots of his past in the form of flashbacks. But these flashbacks seem forced. They appear to be designed to make the torture seem relevant, i.e. "religiously" meaningful.

The film has an INDEPENDENT investment in brutality, in cruelty. One suspects that Gibson has a particular interest in cruelty for cruelty's sake---not for any "transcendent" purpose.

It is not accidental that THE PASSION OF THE CHRIST has horror-film elements: the attack on Judas at the hands of screeching daemon-children, the ubiquitous presence of an androgynous Satan, the demotion of someone-or-other to Hell, etc. THE PASSION OF THE CHRIST is, sensu stricto, a horror film.

Throughout, Jesus's VOLUNTARY assumption of his torture and death is emphasized. One of the strongest images in the film has The Christ embrace his own crucifix as if it were a lover. It is repeatedly stressed in this work that Jesus loves his persecutors, loves his persecutions, and welcomes and affirms his own death.

Because of this undeniable accent on self-imposed violence, I question whether or not the film is indeed "religious" at all. "Religion," in this context, is a mere pretext for sexualized violence. There is a kind of bloodlust in this film, a joy in the systematic reduction of a human body to dead meat.

THE PASSION OF THE CHRIST is a violently pornographic film. It portrays violence as something that is deeply gratifying. I do not have a problem with this. My problem is that the film is self-deceptive, dishonest, about its sadomasochistic dimensions.

(As a post-script: How is it possibe that THE DREAMERS received an NC-17 rating for a smattering of male nudity and this film did not? A "religious" subtext pacifies the MPAA, it seems...).

Dr. Joseph Suglia

DVD Review: Invented and Atrocious
Summary: 1 Stars

This doesn't even resemble the Christian Bible. There is no peace and love here. Only hatred and blame. It is a modern encarnation of "Passion Plays" enacted by the Inquisition before they would go hunting for scapegoats to murder and torture.

DVD Review: Soul's Retina
Summary: 5 Stars

This is one of those rarest of films whose trajectory penetrates all of the intermediary sensory and cultural tissues and impacts the fibers of one's soul. It is not seen and heard, it is felt. It is nearly perfect in its power of telling.
Whether deist, theist, agnostic or atheist, the viewer may briefly taste the sum of all the world's pain. The experience may engender knowledge; and with this knowledge, the beginning of wisdom?

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.

After 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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