[My back yard]

Good writing on the Passion. What an experience eh? I'm still getting goosebumps when I talk about it. Still wish there had been a more elaborate finish on the Resurrection. The Resurrection is as significant to the understanding of His sacrifice as was the scourging and Crucifixion. Hate to say it though, as I wouldn't criticize Gibson's film. So masterfully done, and more than just a film.

[My back yard]

I thought W had already sent you the hotel info, or I would have.

[Scott from the Left Coast]

My wife and I talked about the resurrection depiction and decided that we felt that aspect was just right as well. Any more of it would have created the danger of becoming smarmy or phoney -- because there is no way to accurately or convincingly portray an event for which there is no point of reference or comparison. I think any more would have either gone over-the-top (ascending-into-the-clouds cliche)or taken the film from its raw reality into something of the realm of sci-fi. No one can depict something like that, something for which we have nothing in our experience to relate it to. That's why all the other renditions of it that have been attempted look cheap and almost laughable.

I think Gibson did it right. He rolled the stone away from the dark into ever-day, showed the shroud billowing like an empty parachute and then a picture perfect Jesus standing and walking away, with only the spike scar on his hand as the reference point. He left the event with its unique dignity that way.