Having recently become politically incorrect, Gibson is at least in good-no, divine-company. How is it, then, that they have seen fit to vilify The Passion when the charges are not all evident? Using what prophetic powers did the ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union) Civil Liberty and the Anti-Defamation League know in advance that this Jesus film was a racist atrocity? After all, they were not grieved over the Brooklyn Museum's Virgin Mary covered in elephant dung, or the homesexual Jesus of Corpus Christi even when those charges were evident. I find it strange, though, that these charges were being made long before anyone had seen the movie. Paid for out of Gibson's own pocket, filmed entirely in Aramaic and Latin with English subtitles, and scheduled for public release on Ash Wednesday, The Passion is the perfect meditation at the perfect time for what is, by any reckoning, the central event of human history.Ĭasting a pall over it is the whole frightful fuss being made in the media over charges of anti-Semitism. We rejoice to see a Catholic physiognomy and thoroughgoing supernaturalism untinged with any modernist reservations. Indeed, it might not be hyperbole to say that The Passion will likely become to the medium of film what Michaelangelo's Pieta, Mozart's Requiem, and Dante's Divine Comedy were to the media of sculpting, poetry, and music, respectively.

It is a rare thing to see God working through Hollywood, a place whose allegiance nine films out of ten seems to lie squarely with 'The Other Guy.' But as Mel Gibson has just shown us in his The Passion of Christ, God is able even on Sunset Boulevard to raise up children to Abraham. MLA style: 'The Passion of Christ.' The Free Library.

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