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Really good movie! Yeah, there was too much blood, and the doctors even said that if tehre was as much blood shown in the movie as in real life, he would have died far back.

It makes me wonder if another movie is gonna come out depicting his life, and his teachings.

Yeah it was awesome, but soo much blood, I couldnt eat for 2 days lol

this movie really awesome...really good....potray the story of jesus christ...

i saw the movie again yesterday .. ortodox easter. the is not to much blood ... its the usual blood you see when somebody is tortured

awesome movie
i liked it very much
looking fora dvd NOW
for my collection

really nice movie
u could really feel the pains that Christ felt in that time.
Nice acting by Mel Gibson

I'd been looking forward to seeing this film since the day I first read a rumour that Mel Gibson was going to do a film about the Passion entirely in Latin and Aramaic. I knew this was going to be a very special film long before it made headlines and became the centre of great and unnecessary controversy. Yesterday I was not disappointed. Josh Sewell has already put it more elegantly than I can when he writes, "I've been rendered nearly speechless... The Passion of the Christ... defies the typical 'it's good' or 'it's bad' mentality of a review. It's so visually gripping, so heart-wrenching and so emotionally draining that writing about it simply can't do it justice."

The film begins at night in the garden of Gethsemane in Jerusalem. Jesus (played by Jim Caviezel, an actor I have great respect for ever since his excellent performance in Kevin Reynolds' film of The Count of Monte Cristo) is betrayed by his disciple Judas to the high priest Caiaphas and, next morning, brought before Pontius Pilate, the Roman procurator of Judaea. Originally, Gibson had intended The Passion of the Christ not to have subtitles, saying that the acting was to convey enough of the story for subtitles to be superfluous. Later he compromised and had the film subtitled. The subtitles do make the details of the story clear, so this particular compromise was not a bad decision, but I suspect from the generally quite stylised acting that Gibson still intended not to have subtitles while he was shooting. That the Passion was filmed entirely in Latin and Aramaic was a stroke of genius, and part of the great lengths Gibson went to in order to achieve a sense of historical accuracy. I certainly cannot fault his portrayal of the Romans: they do admittedly speak Latin with an Italian accent (partly because the actors are Italian, partly because they were coached by a Jesuit who presumably pronounces Latin consonants the medieval or modern Italian way), but they speak it fluently, as if it really were their everyday speech, and all of them look right and act perfectly, and their clothing, armour, weapons and hairstyles are completely accurate as far as I know. Pilate himself is actually played by a Bulgarian (which is audible in the way he pronounces the letter L) who really looks the part and manages to convey a lot of powerful emotions restrained by military and political discipline.

Caiaphas demands that Jesus be executed for blasphemy. Pilate refuses but, terrified that he will have a bloody uprising on his hands which will result in his own execution on the orders of the Emperor, orders his second in command, Abenader, to have Jesus severely punished in the hope of appeasing Caiaphas. Abenader unwittingly delegates the task to a group of sadistic soldiers who cane Jesus and then, probably provoked by his incredible stoicism, scourge him. The scourging is one of the most horrific and bloody scenes I have ever seen, and rightly so. The film has been criticised for being sadomasochistic, a criticism that is idiotic. We are bombarded every day with scenes of violence intended as entertainment, desensitising us to our detriment. The Passion of the Christ shows violence for what it really is in all its true, disgusting, dehumanising horror, a horror that takes on a further dimension when I consider, through my tears, that I have just paid to watch a man being ripped to shreds while the people all around me munch loudly on popcorn.

Caiaphas is not satisfied and demands that Jesus be crucified. Pilate tries one last time to avert the inevitable. He tells the mob that they can save one condemned man from execution and tells them to choose between Jesus and Barabbas, a murderer. To his disbelief the mob choose to pardon Barabbas. Jesus is to be crucified.

Another criticism of the film has been that it is unrealistic in that, amongst other things, Jesus is forced to carry his cross to Golgotha after having been mortally scourged. Do I need to point out the irony here? When Jesus falls on the way and seems unable to continue, the accompanying Roman soldiers rope in the unwilling Simon to share his burden. When Jesus falls again, Simon finds that the cross the horrifically injured Jesus managed to carry a part of the way on his own cannot be born by an able-bodied (but mortal) man.

Finally, the crucifixion. As Josh Sewell points out, "Most films about Jesus... make crucifixion seem slightly unpleasant". The Passion of the Christ shows exactly what this hideous form of execution really entailed.

The most widespread and unjust criticism of The Passion of the Christ is that it is anti-Semitic. How anyone can make such an accusation and how anyone can take it seriously beats me. It is Roman soldiers who cane Jesus, who scourge him, who beat him, insult him, spit on him, press a crown of thorns onto his head and crucify him, all on the orders of a Roman procurator. And nobody in their right mind would ever accuse the film of being anti-Italian, just as I have never heard anyone accusing, say, Schindler's List of being anti-German or The Lord of the Rings of being anti-Orc. Ridiculous doesn't even begin to describe such accusations. Probably the only reservations I myself have against the film are that not all the actors pull their weight: in my opinion, Mary, Simon and John are all very weakly portrayed.

Ultimately, The Passion of the Christ is not even a proselytising film. It is a film about the tragedy of mankind: about man's bloodlust, about his inexhaustible cruelty to his fellow man, about his cowardice, conformity and hypocrisy, about the pleasure he takes in the suffering of others, and about his fatal lack of empathy and compassion.

I've been a Christian for years...but this movie really brings the sacrifice home.

very interesting movie, although it is very sad.
But he is trully the messiah for christian people

really a nice movie..the passion of christ....