I really don’t mean to make this a The Passion of The Christ thread, but I need to correct you guys on a few things.
- The Passion does not mean the English ‘passion.’ It is Latin for ‘to suffer’.
- The Passion was not created to ‘entertain.’ It was meant as an historical telling and an art form. It was meant to show the sacrifice that Jesus went through, and to show you what that sacrifice meant.
- You cannot just ‘cut away’ like in Psycho (and I hate it when people compare The Passion with movies like that). The whole point of seeing the brutality is to MAKE you feel bad. Also, as Christian belief goes, everyone is actually responsible for the suffering/death of Christ. Therefore, in a way, the movie is supposed to make you feel guilty (at least, that is how I felt). The Passion is meant to be at the least an emotionally draining experience, and at the most, change people’s lives… Kill Bill is not meant for this.
Anyway, I didn’t mean to make an arguement out of this, but some comments like ‘I didn’t need to see that’ is entirely why Mel Gibson made the movie the way he did… because, in a way, you DID need to see it.