The passion of christ movie6/23/2023 ![]() ![]() Making actors intone these tongues, in a script hardly crammed with subtlety and nuance in the first place, makes them sound very stilted, though I concede some of the Italianate street-Latin given to the Romans has a certain snap.Īs for the anti-semitic question, well, at least Mel didn't use British actors with British accents for the Jews. Blood plus dead languages equals reality. It's in this pious ultra-violence that the movie's authenticity allegedly resides and also in Gibson's plan to use original dialogue in Hebrew, Latin and Aramaic. Staying on his feet no matter what the bad guys hand out. You've already seen it in movies about feisty boxers indomitably remaining upright in the ring, or boot-camp trainees defiantly resisting sadistic drill sergeants. It's certainly ambitious and technically proficient, but only very moderately acted and turns out to be an incredibly obtuse piece of macho-masochism, overlooking Jesus's message of love and his human complexity in favour of a bizarre make-up bloodbath, turning his body into a gory lattice of latex weals, cosmetic stripes and prosthetic wounds which proclaim their lurid and ridiculous fakeness to the very heavens.Īs the hateful centurions go about their business of scourging the body of Christ (Jim Caviezel) before his execution, they are astonished that he can take more than 30 strokes with ordinary wooden canes, and proceed to use flails to break his spirit. But Gibson's foolish and shallow film does not do this.
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