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...PASSION OF THE CHRIST...
Director Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ represents the teachings of Jesus through a gore-drenched recreation of the final 12 hours before his death. Here, the son of God is a wholly human figure, and Gibson constantly reminds his audience of this with an unceasing depiction of shredded flesh and spattered blood. The effect is alternately piercing and numbing. Nevertheless, Gibson eventually succeeds in overwhelming his audience with potent visual poignancy, finding narrative might in the passion plays’ minor characters. There are only glimpses of Christ’s words in the movie...
...COVER: Christ Carrying the Cross, by Andrea Solario. From Scala/Art Resource...
...YOUR BOOK NEARER, MY GOD, YOU WROTE ABOUT YOUR FAITH AS A CATHOLIC. WHAT DO YOU THINK OF MEL GIBSON'S FILM THE PASSION OF THE CHRIST? I thought it well intentioned and moving but unnecessarily bloated in blood...
...anyone can produce a piece of popular entertainment more blood-soaked than Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ, that person is John Carmack. The creator of two of the most violent game franchises in computer history, Doom and Quake, is a few months away from releasing Doom 3. It's a remake of the original, in which you play an Alien-esque space marine battling the ghostly spawn of hell down gloomy corridors of a futuristic Mars base. Not that the hokey plot matters much to hard-core gamers. "Doom 3 is just going to terrify the pants...