that movie...
Mar. 9th, 2004 12:01 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
karenorwhy is it that all my friends post at once. maybe its cuz i waited till noon to get online.
i'd like to say i was busy working on school stuff, but i wasn't. i was watching the passion movie... i downloaded it. cuz i couldn't actually go to the theater and pay money to see it. a compromise i guess. i really didn't feel like lining mel's pockets.
if you want to read my thoughts (they are brief), they follow under the cut tag. to my Christian friends, i apologize if they seem blasphemous. but i can only say what i feel.
my initial reaction...well some would think it blasphemous to say...but i found the whole thing rather silly. not funny, hah-hah, but just a little ludicrous. i can't even explain that right now, but that's how i feel.
why was the devil a woman? i thought that was strange. or was it a woman? that last part, with the devil wailing...a little odd. i guess that's where i thought the whole thing kinda broke down (the silliness factor..well that and the billion slowmo falling down shots). I'd love to see a feminist reading of this film. yikes.
a note on the lanugage. many many words, phrases, and whole sentences are intelligible to hebrew speakers. i was more than offended by mary's quoting of passover scripture, but i realize that it has to do with the christian idea of jesus being the sacrificial lamb, and it was passover after all. it still bugged me. especially since its in clear, modern hebrew.
who was worse, romans or jews? i don't think there is a question that the jews were portrayed worse. (obviously there IS a question, as people disagree). it was only the...lesser romans that were evil. the Consul, his wife, they were all nice, wanted to save him from death, believed he'd done no wrong. Claudia even called him holy. the highest of jews were portrayed as mean, sycophantic, bloodthirsty. the crowd would have nothing but horrible death. and the cry, Yistalev, by the way, is also crystal clear to hebrew speakers, its the same word. the head pharisee said "we have no king but cesar". i guess that's supposed to be showing HIS blasphemy? would he say that, anyway, even to the Consul?
anyway, i was not particularly moved by this movie. i guess...knowing the ending kind of...well it keeps me from having much sympathy. i felt for the marys. i felt bad for peter too. i even felt kinda bad for satan (sorry, but i felt she was portrayed kinda sympatheticly, oddly enough). but i couldn't, even with all that torture, feel bad for jesus. if this was "just a story" and he was just a man, wrongfully and shamefully condemned, if his followers hadn't started a relgion in his name, based in large part on his death...i think i would have been weeping.
i'd like to say i was busy working on school stuff, but i wasn't. i was watching the passion movie... i downloaded it. cuz i couldn't actually go to the theater and pay money to see it. a compromise i guess. i really didn't feel like lining mel's pockets.
if you want to read my thoughts (they are brief), they follow under the cut tag. to my Christian friends, i apologize if they seem blasphemous. but i can only say what i feel.
my initial reaction...well some would think it blasphemous to say...but i found the whole thing rather silly. not funny, hah-hah, but just a little ludicrous. i can't even explain that right now, but that's how i feel.
why was the devil a woman? i thought that was strange. or was it a woman? that last part, with the devil wailing...a little odd. i guess that's where i thought the whole thing kinda broke down (the silliness factor..well that and the billion slowmo falling down shots). I'd love to see a feminist reading of this film. yikes.
a note on the lanugage. many many words, phrases, and whole sentences are intelligible to hebrew speakers. i was more than offended by mary's quoting of passover scripture, but i realize that it has to do with the christian idea of jesus being the sacrificial lamb, and it was passover after all. it still bugged me. especially since its in clear, modern hebrew.
who was worse, romans or jews? i don't think there is a question that the jews were portrayed worse. (obviously there IS a question, as people disagree). it was only the...lesser romans that were evil. the Consul, his wife, they were all nice, wanted to save him from death, believed he'd done no wrong. Claudia even called him holy. the highest of jews were portrayed as mean, sycophantic, bloodthirsty. the crowd would have nothing but horrible death. and the cry, Yistalev, by the way, is also crystal clear to hebrew speakers, its the same word. the head pharisee said "we have no king but cesar". i guess that's supposed to be showing HIS blasphemy? would he say that, anyway, even to the Consul?
anyway, i was not particularly moved by this movie. i guess...knowing the ending kind of...well it keeps me from having much sympathy. i felt for the marys. i felt bad for peter too. i even felt kinda bad for satan (sorry, but i felt she was portrayed kinda sympatheticly, oddly enough). but i couldn't, even with all that torture, feel bad for jesus. if this was "just a story" and he was just a man, wrongfully and shamefully condemned, if his followers hadn't started a relgion in his name, based in large part on his death...i think i would have been weeping.
