Passion of the christ

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The passion of the Christ is a movie directed by Mel Gibson; this movie is based on the life of Jesus but mostly focuses on the last 12 hours of Jesus’ life. The movie begins in the garden where Jesus is praying after he has gone to the last supper, it shows you how scared he is and that he’s just like any human being. “Jesus is then arrested and taken within the city walls of Jerusalem where leaders of the Pharisees confront him with accusations of blasphemy and his trial results in a condemnation to death”. “(Adam Ward, www.google.com, the passion of the Christ.) The movie is full of horrific scenes that are heart breaking, and full of violence. When the movie was being played at cinemas for months it was the conversation of every human being whether they liked the movie or not, whether they watched it or not. It is Mel Gibson’s first movie he put so much effort into it, he worked for months on the scenes and sound effects and scenario which wasn’t written in English but in Jesus’ language, he worked on the directing to come up with a very strong well put together movie. The main idea revolves around Jesus’ last few hours while he was being put on the cross; it is known that Jesus suffered for our sake and Gibson tried to show us the violence that Jesus was put through. He studied all the ways Romans used to torture people in the past and used the information to film it. Passion of the Christ is a very interesting movie some people loved it, others rebelled against it.

The movie Passion of the Christ was rated R at the theaters, due to its violence. Gibson’s idea was to show the audience the price Jesus paid for our sake and he did it willingly not once did he rebel. Many movies were filmed about Jesus’ crucifixion but no movie was able to film Jesus’ torture this accurate and in this much violence, the Passion of the Christ is the only movie to film the torture of Jesus this brutally, it’s probably so close to what really happened in reality.

In my own opinion I think “The Passion of the Christ” is the most violent movie I’ve ever seen. The movie had too many detailed violence in it. Parents shouldn’t be taking their children to watch such a movie although children should watch this movie so they can learn about Jesus’ life. The movie is 126 minutes long, 100 minutes of the movie is violence. I think Mel Gibson over did it with the violence part, it is true he showed so much violence so the people can see how much suffering Jesus passed through, but I think that people who truly believe in God, and Jesus will already know how much he suffered for us, human beings. Mel Gibson concentrated more on the violence and not on the 12 hours that had been left in Jesus’ life. I think Mel Gibson should have concentrated more on the teachings of Jesus, this way all ages would have been able to watch the movie, and in the end children have the complete right to rebel that they want to watch the movie “Passion of the Christ” because they have all the right to learn about Jesus and his last 12 hours in life.

This movie affected a lot of people, and I am one of them, it taught people a lot of things in life. Jesus had been tortured, he had been beaten up almost to death, kicked, humiliated, insulted, and on top of all this he was crucified, but after all this he still came back with love and forgiveness. Every person that watched that movie felt guilt after watching it because we humans usually make a big deal about tiny mistakes that people does to us, and we might never forgive that person again.

In conclusion the movie was a great success; it changes a lot of small details in people and gave them more faith in God. Although Mel Gibson could have sent the message in a different way, but he chose to send it through violence, and show people how much he sacrificed for us, because I am sure no one living on this earth will be able to handle all this torture and no one will accept to handle all this much torture for somebody else.