Mel's The Passion of Christ

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One of the things that I loved about this film, is the fact that it accentuates the Marian aspect of Jesus Passion. It shows Our Lady’s sorrows, but also the great strength of Our Blessed Mother. One of the more poignant scenes was when Mary meets Jesus in the carrying of the Cross. One of the most touching scenes I’ve ever witnessed. I love as Jesus is about to pick up His Cross and proceed to Calvary, He gives His Mother a final little kiss goodbye. So touching, but at the same time, so sorrowful seeing Mary’s tremendous grief.

 
I was just thinking I have to go see it myself, but I’ve heard the same things about it being “too gory”.

I’ve played violent video games and watched horrible movies for a good part of my life (My Bloody Valentine, Dawn of the Dead, etc.)- and I just haven’t been able to stomach them for a long time- since before my reversion.

I was told by someone that their teacher- a nun- made the class watch the crucifixion scene from the film over, and over, and over, and over again. I don’t feel it’s necessary to make young children watch that 🤷‍♂️
 
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[I “enjoyed” the confusion on the face of St. Peter when he suddenly realized he denied Christ … as Jesus said he would.]
 
kptrs said:
The portrayal of the violence is accurate. I really commend the film makers for not sugar coating it as other films depicting the death of Christ do. It’s something people need to see. It helps us as Christians to recognize how much Christ really loves mankind, that He was willing to endure such unimaginable suffering.
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No, it goes too far. Many scenes are not accurate at all, they’re impossible for a human body to survive, especially when done one-after-the-other.

Just for example, there is a scene after Christ is first arrested when He is pushed (or falls, maybe) from a bridge. He falls about 15 feet and what stops Him is a rope tied around His neck; they then let Him hang and sway for a while before pulling Him back up by the rope. The fall alone would surely kill a human being—it would break the neck of anyone. That’s just one example of how He would have been dead several times over if the specific details had actually occurred.
 
Unfortunately the truth of the crucifixion was gory and ugly. It sticks very close to the truth and can make you sick at your stomach!
 
Jesus had to endure everything He endured for our salvation. He is God as well as human. Wouldn’t it be possible for Him to remain alive during all of it if that was the Holy Will of His Father?
 
Gosh, I don’t remember that scene. I will have to watch it again!
That does seem unbelievable, and I remember the scourging scene which was awful, but I don’t remember the fall from the bridge!
 
Horton said:
There is a new movie with the same actor as the Apostle Paul, named Paul. It will be released during Holy Week I believe.
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There’s also a sequel to the Passion, directed by Mel Gibson, coming out. I don’t think they even started production on it yet, so it probably won’t be in theaters for a couple of years.
 
kptrs said:
Jesus had to endure everything He endured for our salvation. He is God as well as human. Wouldn’t it be possible for Him to remain alive during all of it if that was the Holy Will of His Father?
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Actually no. That would make Him other-than-human rather than human (meaning God and man in hypostatic union.) What I mean by that is that if it would take more to kill Him than it would for another human being (of the same age, size, health, etc.) then He would not have been truly human. That’s what I mean about the rope scene. No human could survive a fall like that suspended by a rope around the neck—the neck would break. Christ did not have bones made of iron, He had human bones. When He did die on the cross, that death has meaning exactly because that sort of treatment causes a human body to die. So it would not make sense for His body to die because of the cross, but then not-die because of the fall. Think of it this way: if He can survive having His neck snapped, then there’s no reason why He would die by being nailed to a cross. He would be more like the monster in the modern horror movie who gets shot 5 times then stands up and lifts a Volkswagen over his head—that is, not human but super-human, a thing of fiction.

An average adult has about 6 quarts of blood. Someone who loses 2 quarts is about to die. I don’t want to get too graphic here, but the blood lost in the movie was just too much for any human to survive. If everything in the movie happened in the same way, at the actual Passion, Christ would never have survived to the cross.

The value of the Crucifixion is that the God-become-man experienced a human death. If it were other-than a human death, then it looses all meaning. That’s my objection to what I see as Hollywood over-doing the scenes. It makes Christ look more like the horror movie character who “can’t be killed” no matter how many times he does get killed.

Do you see what I mean?

It’s not the depiction of the events of the Passion which make me object. It’s the level to which the movie takes them.
 
I think it is good to watch, in order to really see what Jesus went through for us. Also, remember that Our Blessed Mother had to suffer through seeing her Son go through this. It is good to help us know what she went through too for us.
 
Perhaps you might accept that ridicule as a cross to be joined with that of Our Lord and offer it up for those who make fun of you.
 
I recall Pope Saint John Paul II watched it and affirmed its value.
 
if Matthew,Mark Luke,and John had the technology of film production available they would have used it.The Passion is a true Master piece more than just film. " It is What it is. You will look at a crucifix
and see No Greater Love!
A story so familiar made beautiful with the Truth. Every scene is richly crafted.The editing is paced and balanced to draw you in. The difficult parts that make you want to close your eyes cause you to pray along to as Mary 's eye reveal her prayer.
Be there with her like saying the Rosary.
Everyone experiences this Passion personally .It will trouble your heart in good way as you experience the love in the eyes of Jesus and Mary.
Go deep inside your own heart and you will come out with a joyful gratitude for the Passion of Our Lord. This film Must be experienced if you can Handle the Truth!!strong text
This film has praying all the way through to wonderful ressurection.
"See I Make All things New!!
See this film please
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Mel Gibson admitted in interviews for exaggerating the amount of blood and violence in order to convey a clear message about Christ’s sufferance and also passion.
I only watched it once, I remember very little from it just flashes - the girl who plays the devil, Maia Morgenstern crying and how I cried and fell off my couch during the Golgota scene, and Pillates’ wife in some sort of strange agony (St. Olivia).
This movie did not help me. It made me mad at the church and Christianity, it was like ““and for us it’s just a ritual? no, I don’t want him to die for me.””
“Jesus of Nazareth"made me go to church and read the NT. After I read it I am no longer a fan of movie but it did make me want these things and I will always give it credit.
“Passion of Christ”” made me angry at tall Christianity of which I am a part of, and made me truly feel that we got it all wrong and none of us deserves this sacrifice and it’s all a circus etc.
It’s probably just mainly my problem that it shook me the wrong way (I was also listening to a lot of Pagan rock at that time) and I am sure Mel G never meant to make the movie to inspire this but others may be susceptible to this also.
This is the last movie based on the Bible that I saw. Better to avoid them then to feel like than again. A work colleague also told me she also felt the same when she saw it, she felt raped and angry and she felt Christ was slandered and offended in the movie (again not Mel G’s intention and not true but things get out of control with this movie).
Ok, maybe this was a good a thing that it shook me but it came as a shock to me because I was expecting something else when I bought the DVD and was so anxious and happy to see this very special movie.
 
goodcatholic said:
Mel Gibson’s movie. A must see?

Peter Kreeft described it as “not a movie but a liturgy”. He said it was a must see for Catholics.

Would you agree? I haven’t seen it yet. I’ve procrastinated about it because I fear it will be too violent, depressing and painful to watch. Watching someone go to their death is not entertaining. Yes. OK. So I shouldn’t be expecting entertainment.
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It was definitely good and worth the watch. Pray for Mel though, he got excommunicated and gave millions of dollars to some heretical church in California.
 
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