the thin line between optimism and delusion…

I saw the Passion movie last night, and I thought it was a very well done movie, but people need to accept it for what it is and not for what they want it to be. It was terribly graphic and violent, but no more violent than the probably reality. I thought all the actors did an exceptional job, I love Jim Caviezel, he was wonderful. I also really liked the actor who played Pilate, and the actress who played Pilate’s wife. But the best part in the movie was that of Mary, the mother of Jesus, every scene she was in was spectacular. Satan was very creepy, but very appropriate. some people are going to hate this movie, but it is going to be for reasons that have nothing to do with the true meaning of the film. the point of the film was for Mel Gibson to express what the Passion meant to him, and to remind people what Jesus suffered for the world at large and to humanize Jesus for people. There were also certain Catholic artifacts, I guess you could call them, I can’t think of the word right now, but many cathedrals in Europe have holy artifacts that were recovered from the holy land during the crusades and at other times, some examples, the shroud that Jesus’s body was wrapped in (this one wasn’t used in the film), but in Rome, there are a set of wooden steps the Constantine’s mother brought back from Jerusalem, and you can only go up these steps on your knees, so when go to see these steps, there are people crawling up them, supposedly they are the steps that Jesus walked up when he was being judged by Pilate, and in the movie Jesus ascends steps to talk to Pilate, and also there is a women who wipes Jesus’s face with a white cloth, and a cloth with an imprint of Jesus’s face in blood is another example of an artifact. I don’t think that this in any way detracts from the movie, it is just interesting because Mel Gibson is catholic, and someone of another denomination might not have thought to include this sort of thing. I don’t know, I just thought it was interesting. People need to take away the over all message of this movie and not concentrate on small deviations from their own ideas.