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...audience with the kind of potent visual poignancy unseen in his previous directorial work. The telling of the story is equally effective, as screenwriters Gibson and Benedict Fitzgerald (Wise Blood) find most of their narrative might in the passion plays’ minor characters. Though violence is the film??€™s major theme, what resonates from The Passion of the Christ is not necessarily its brutality, but rather the significance of his sacrifice. There are only glimpses of Christ’s words in the movie, and his resurrection is given minimal screen time, but these are provided...
...passionate about this presence, who, in the film, shows as much depth as Tyrese in 2 Fast 2 Furious. Oddly enough, the only deeply felt character is Pontius Pilate (Hristo Naumov Shopov), who comes off as nuanced but ultimately unwilling to risk a rebellion to save one madman. The film??€™s violence is physically exhausting and, ultimately, numbing; ultimately, these shots begin to resemble pornography, complete with a money shot...
...only their respective political futures, but who gets to date Sally. In one significant way, Mooseport diverges from its Leave It to Beaver sensibilities, ultimately telling its audience that government is best left to cheats and liars. It’s a message that dovetails nicely with the film??€™s in-your-face easygoingness, but one that seems distastefully simpleminded near the start of an election year that is likely to be one of America’s most ugliest and most bitter...
...fundamental, unanswered question of the film??€”whether a radical ideology can be made to fit the confines of mainstream society—is one that Green says he often wondered about...
...Green says the strong feelings still held by many on the film??€™s subject made it difficult to research—a process that meant not only hours combing through network news archives but also extensive in-person interviews with prominent figures from the would-be revolution...