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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...
...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...
There are three fatal flaws that damage Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ for nonbelievers: almost no characterization or narrative, a spectacularly large amount of violence and almost all of the Jews are evil Christ-killers. In Gibson’s mania to present the extent of Jesus’ suffering, character is lost, and by the end of the film, Jesus begins to resemble a piñata more than a man. The effect is that it is hard to understand quite what the point of all this is. It is never clear...
...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...
...standard news coverage of Ashura. Not one bloody detail escapes the attention of Gibson, who, like the BBC, seems to love nothing more than shredded flesh and the sight of fresh blood streaming down the forehead of a young Middle Eastern man. Based on The Gospel of Mel, Jesus’ torture seems to have been far more important than his actual teachings or moral legacy, two subjects which are hardly treated...