[fightu4it]

"And best of all is a final look right into the camera of Mary, holding her dead Son. She is looking at all of us with a kind of , "Look what you've done"/This is for you" expression. A cinematic Pieta worthy of Michelangelo."

Typical Hollywood take.

It was,after all, preordained.

It sounds as if Hollywood is offering a guilt trip; whereas Jesus was offering salvation.

[cyncooper]

It was,after all, preordained.

It sounds as if Hollywood is offering a guilt trip; whereas Jesus was offering salvation.

Any thoughts on why Jesus suffered so as He prayed in the Garden of Gethsemane? After all, His death was preordained, why should He have asked the cup be taken from Him?

I think there is no question that Mary was not blase about watching Jesus die.