Can you handle the Truth? ("The Passion of the Christ")

townhall.com ^ | 2/25/04 | Rebecca Hagelin

[Skooz]

I look forward to your review. I have tickets for Friday evening and am eager to see it.

[fella]

Te Fort Worth paper had a negative movie revue on the front page. It covered about half the page above the fold. I've never seen a revue on the front page before.

[ILBBACH]

We need a "Freeper Comments on the Passion" thread.

I'm going to see the movie in about an hour. If you find a thread afterwords, please ping me, and I'll do the same.

[Tree of Liberty]

I read that Satan is played by a woman, which is interesting.

Yes, but Gibson said that it's supposed to be androgynous. In fact, the actress shaved all of the hair on her head (including eyebrows), and the voice was dubbed over with that of a man's.

[antonia]

What is interesting is many liberals, who cheered on horror as entertainment, are in turn horrified by this movie, which attempts to accurately portray what happened to Jesus. In a way, this movie might might just turn many against the violence in the entertainment industry.

Because they have not accepted Christ's forgiveness, they can only feel the guilt, the personal guilt, with no forgiveness, of what was done to Christ.

[dirtboy]

We need a "Freeper Comments on the Passion" thread

I pinged y'all into that thread (225 responses and growing).

[CalKat]

How is the left trying to keep people from seeing this movie?

[maica]

We have become a visual society and sometimes the best testimony is thru the eyes.
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I am reminded of the beautiful cathedrals that were built in the Middle Ages. They were civic make-work projects, developed to bring trade to whichever city could attract it. While employing these laborers, builders and craftsmen improved the economic situation of the towns, the visual results had a huge influence on the minds of those Middle Agers.

Mel Gibson is using the technology of the 21st Century to retell a story that has been expressed artistically as long as there have been artists.

[lonevoice]

How is the left trying to keep people from seeing this movie?

I would point you toward the articles and reveiws from:

The Hollywood Reporter
CNN
Daily News
New York Times
Village Voice
CBS 60 Minutes
Boston Globe
The Philadelphia Inquirer
Newsweek
the New Yorker
Times
Reuters
NBC Dateline
New York Daily News
The New York Post

But, I see from your FR comments page that you've already read many of them. As well, your responses about John Kerry's military record versus GWB's cause me to think you may not agree the above media outlets have a liberal bias. "For those that have to ask, no answer will suffice."

[luvbach1]

The Passion of the Christ is the antithesis of gratuitous violence. Its violence is utterly integral to the film Gibson set out to make, and succeeded in making. It is ridiculous to criticize him for not making another movie instead.

[Dr. Scarpetta]

I'm beginning to think you have to be a Christian to understand that.

[Rightly Biased]

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