Talk About The "Passion"
Posted: Wed Mar 03, 2004 3:34 pm
I haven't seen this and don't intend to. I'd rather sit with my eyelids propped open watching atrocities and listening to Beethoven than fatten Mad Max's coffers.
But I have a couple observations that don't require viewing of the movie.
First, am I the only one that finds it deeply ironic (or at least laughably stupid) that fundamentalist Protestants are running in droves to see a dogmatic movie made by a Traditionalist Catholic who has stated point-blank that all non-Catholics are damned?
Second (as pointed out by a columnist in the Lexington paper), isn't it odd that Gibson was supposedly so committed to authentic detail that he initially didn't even want subtitles for the Aramaic and Latin, and yet he cast a white Jesus?
Finally, a letter to the LA Times:
Ryan
But I have a couple observations that don't require viewing of the movie.
First, am I the only one that finds it deeply ironic (or at least laughably stupid) that fundamentalist Protestants are running in droves to see a dogmatic movie made by a Traditionalist Catholic who has stated point-blank that all non-Catholics are damned?
Second (as pointed out by a columnist in the Lexington paper), isn't it odd that Gibson was supposedly so committed to authentic detail that he initially didn't even want subtitles for the Aramaic and Latin, and yet he cast a white Jesus?
Finally, a letter to the LA Times:
I am a high school teacher and the daughter of Holocaust survivors. Monday morning, Period 1, a student, age 17, comes into my room. She asks me if I had seen the film "The Passion."
I answer, "No."
She continues, "It was so sad. I cried so much. I hate the Jews."
Very, very sadly, that tells the whole story, Mr. Gibson.
Anna Paikow
Los Angeles
Ryan