Review of The Passion of the Christ (2004) by Becky B — 17 Dec 2012
One could not have given the subject at hand to a better director than Mel Gibson. He holds absolutely nothing back in depicting the true violence that Jesus Christ had to endure, and it is almost painful to watch.
It is not the fact that this film depicts the death of Jesus that makes it such an incredible viewing experience, but the fact that we are shown what a man who wanted nothing more than for us to love one another had to go through.
We are shown chunks of Christ's skin flying in the air, a huge puddle of his blood laying on the ground, and even part of his ribs where the whips tore through. I cannot stress how difficult the film is to sit through, or how necessary it is to endure.
This is coming from someone who isn't the least bit religious: it simply doesn't matter if you are or aren't. Mel Gibson has masterfully crafted not just any film, but THE film about the actual death of Jesus Christ, a man who went through the worst possible experience any human could possibly go through.
It kills me inside to see critics bash this film for being "a pornographic bloodbath" simply because Mel Gibson was trying to show us what this man went through. He did not give in to the stereotypes of big budgeted Hollywood movies, and disregarded the idea of making it PG-13 for more money.
The death of Christ was not PG-13: it was brutally bloody to the highest degree imaginable, and that is exactly what Gibson portrays it as, thus deserving my utmost highest respect. I also love the fact that Gibson chose to have the actors speak Aramaic, the actual language that Christ spoke back then: hearing the actors speak such a language made me forget that I was watching a film about the death of Christ and made me think that I was actually watching the death of Christ.
The Passion of the Christ is an incredibly moving, eye-opening, harrowing, but nonetheless essential piece of filmmaking, and is probably one of the greatest achievements to have ever been committed to cinema.
This review of The Passion of the Christ (2004) was written by Becky B on 17 Dec 2012.
The Passion of the Christ has generally received positive reviews.
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