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...genuine remorse. Just as many Jews were depicted in the film as wishing for Jesus’s death, many were sympathetic to him, simply from the standpoint of watching a man endure a horrible ordeal. Through most of the film, the characters beating him were not Jewish, but Roman. Suggesting that the film makes any commentary on “the Jews” as a group is absurd...
...seemed to me essentially a faithful reproduction of Roman Catholic piety of an earlier day,” Gomes said. “It deserves to be taken seriously...
...film anti-Jewish? Well, which Jews? Start with the Sanhedrin, the rabbinical senate that found Jesus guilty of violating temple law and handed him to the Roman authority for summary punishment. The rabbis had their reasons; they saw the upstart as dangerous, blasphemous, possibly insane for proclaiming himself the Messiah and telling his followers they would live forever if they ate his flesh and drank his blood. The film sees the rabbis as doctrinally pure but politically corrupt. Indeed, it suggests they are a rogue cell calling a midnight caucus for a frame-up. But Gibson also shows many Jews...
...Brian" gets smarter at the crucifixion, when 139 people are to be crossed up, and this perpendicular Golgotha gang displays all manner of traditional English class snobbery, transported to Palestine. "Under the terms of the Roman occupation, we're entitled to be buried in a purely Jewish area," sniffs one man, whose wife (crucified next to him), says me too. Eric Idle has a few good bits as various incorrigibly sunny prisoners. "See," he tells Graham Chapman's Brian as their crosses are planted, "not so bad when you're up." Idle tops this with the immortal music-hall cheerer...
...with melodrama and metaphor. This Jesus (Willem Dafoe) is not God born as man. He is a man who discovers - or invents - his own divinity. And he is both tormented and excited by the revelation. This Judas (Harvey Keitel) is a strong, loving activist. He wants to overthrow the Roman occupiers, while Jesus wants freedom for the soul. To fulfill his covenant, Judas must betray not Jesus but his own ideal of revolution. He must hand the man he most loves over to the Romans...