[Aquinasfan]

It's no longer just words.

Yes. You know, I used to look down on those "grisly" crucifixes. You know the ones I'm talking about. They seem pretty sanitized now, don't they?

Even my understanding of Jesus' arrest has been transformed. I always pictured Peter walking over to a guard, taking his sword and slicing off his ear. Pretty weird image. And it doesn't make much sense, if you think about it at all. Mel's rendering of the scene certainly makes much more sense.

[Desdemona]

You know, I used to look down on those "grisly" crucifixes. You know the ones I'm talking about. They seem pretty sanitized now, don't they?

Yes. All of it seems sanitized. So many of the churches that have been wreckovated took down their Stations because they were "too brutal". Stations, Palm Sunday and the Triduum will never be the same.

I think we who live in this comfortable world of ours needed this film.