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...Gospel and the Gore David Van Biema's viewpoint "Why It's So Bloody," on Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ [March 1], stated that the movie's brutal imagery is more attuned to the religious spirit of the Middle Ages than to today's Christianity. But the point of the movie is to remind Christians?and proclaim to non-Christians?that Jesus, in his humanity, suffered terribly in order to be offered up as the perfect sacrifice. There is no way to portray this other than in graphic detail. Many of today's Christians want to worship...
...most miserable Mississippian to ever pick a guitar. Legend has it that Johnson sold his soul to the devil in exchange for his skills. When Lucifer collected, Johnson was 27 and had just 29 recordings to his name. Clapton says those recordings (which are just Johnson and his Gibson L-1, no accompaniment) are the finest music ever made, which leads to a conceptual dilemma: if Clapton mimics Johnson's superior minimalism, he's added nothing; if he tinkers, he risks ruining perfection. He's damned both ways. Johnson would have appreciated the double bind, but it's hard...
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 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...
...just as Mel Gibson shouldn’t have expected to release his gory interpretation of Jesus’ life without confronting questions about the intentions behind his film, so too does the media have a duty to seek answers before making a judgment...
News coverage of Ashura was similarly superficial, almost entirely ignoring the holiday’s religious significance and, in the case of Karbala, the one million other worshipers who weren’t contributing to the self-inflicted blood loss. Like Gibson, many of the Karbala arguably focused too much on violence and not enough on the non-physical elements of their faith. Nevertheless, the media’s one-dimensional portrait of the holiday mostly served to betray its own unhealthy fixations...