Review of The Passion of the Christ (2004) by David Denby for New Yorker — 23 Feb 2004
The visual big top is the scourging and the crucifixion -- again and again, Gibson returns to the blood-letting. Again and again, we're exposed to the clinical repetition of a single act, until an alleged act of passion comes to seem boring and passionless.
Is that not a definition of pornography?
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This review of The Passion of the Christ (2004) was written by David Denby and published by New Yorker on 23 Feb 2004.
The Passion of the Christ has generally received positive reviews.
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