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We just saw the movie this afternoon. As a Jew I am disgusted by it -- there is not a single positive Jewish character. Pilate comes off as a man with a conscience who reluctantly gives up Jesus after trying to save him several times. His wife is sympathetic to the Jews. The actual Jews come off terribly, just terribly -- giving money to Judas, then denying association with Jesus, begging for him to be crucified. The Jews are violent, dumb, vicious, uneducated. Not a single multi-dimensional or sympathetic Jew. It is pure anti-Semitism.
There is maybe 10 lines of real dialogue in the movie. It is surreal, just violence and blood and s&m. No plot, no background, no teachings. Just a relentless focus on tiny useless details (the types of whips used on Jesus, the specifics of how he was nailed to the cross, 40 slow motion shots of blood like syrup coming out of his mouth as he falls down. It is not really a movie, more like a porno film (really) in obsessive attention to detail w/o any plot.
This movie is medieval nonsense. This movie just shows how stupid and retrograde religion is. This is the 21st Century -- can't we get beyond these myths and fairy-tales that whip people into hatred?????
Shame on Mel Gibson for such a stupid movie.
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