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Originally posted by Tyrone_Slothrop
Sounds like you don't really need to speak Aramaic.
- [T]he movie Gibson has made from his personal obsessions is a sickening death trip, a grimly unilluminating procession of treachery, beatings, blood, and agony—and to say so without indulging in “anti-Christian sentiment” (Gibson’s term for what his critics are spreading). For two hours, with only an occasional pause or gentle flashback, we watch, stupefied, as a handsome, strapping, at times half-naked young man (James Caviezel) is slowly tortured to death. Gibson is so thoroughly fixated on the scourging and crushing of Christ, and so meagrely involved in the spiritual meanings of the final hours, that he falls in danger of altering Jesus’ message of love into one of hate.
David Denby in The New Yorker
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Did anyone else find his need to recite that James Caviezel is strapping and half naked a bit ... squicky?
BR(David Denby has his head up his ass as a general rule, so this is a pretty strong "see" reccomendation in my book)C
