Hey,
Who here has seen the movie the passion it is so sad, if you haven't seen it go rent the dvd or even buy it immediately it's so sad and it's done by the famous director Mel Gibson and I hope everyone has seen it because I love that movie and it's my favorite movie of all times all the americans, mexicans, and even french, and egyptians saw it at the movie theatre and it was awesome it made a bundle because it was such a good movie it took about 20 years to make the movie and the person who was the role of christ got electrifed from the lightening during the movie and it was so sad, the part about the devil that was weird because they made the devil bald and such but it was an awesome movie you would cry anyways and st. mary was good in it and I saw it twice well, I would like to know if you saw it or not and what you thought of it!
God Bless
*Nansy*
Comments
**mariam**
Let me tell you Pope Shenouda's response to this movie....he said, but I do NOT quote his exact words but his meaning, that this movie has something very important missing in it....in this movie. we expertly saw SOME of the terrible pains our Lord went through...("some" because we may never imagine the psychological pains), BUT....in this film we never saw the Lord Jesus in his Glory....on Tabour Mountain, in raising Lazaros from the dead, and so on....not to say that the film didn't have any indirect references, but WE AS CHRISTIANS know them...others don't....
Besides....what's to it that we see the Lord sufferings ONLY, more than 15 times by some accounts!!! Would you like to see UR father going through the same things 15 times?! THAT'S UR LORD! I think if we watch this film too much, we sort of are used to it khalass.....which isn't correct!
What's more important is to LOOK AT OUR ROLE IN THIS, as the Lord said to the women of Jereusalem....He told them not to cry over Him...BUT OVER THEMSELVES, and thus us too!
What's the point in crying over some of what the Lord expreienced, and not reap over the fruits of what HE did...none the less fruits for which we did not work for, as He said!
What are these fruits? Well....the church and its sacrements and our "gehad" meaning fight to reach the Lord in the end (as Saint Paul says, "Our war is not with seen enemies of flesh...but with unseen ones")...a fight in which the Lord blesses us immensly...then and only THEN will we realize, to our human capacity, what the Lord TRULY did for us, and simultaneously understand and stick to what we should do....although of course, this is a long story, but I hope I have made my point clear...
Pray for me as I pray for u all.....
RFZ
that's what my priest told me about this movie!!
-nader
i own the movie, it didn't affect me spiritually at all, i think it wouldve been more benficient if it showed Jesus's life from the begginning and showed his teachings. But it was a very good movie, very high budget.
-nader
i totally agree- after i saw that movie, it changed me spirtually
Yea i saw the movie too, and sandrahanna ur right. Pope Shenouda did say that the movie shows all the pains, but doesnt show the lord's glory. He said that to a person who isnt chrisitian or doesnt know about christ at all, this movie just shows that the lord was a week, normal human. But its still a good movie, it has to be if they sell it in my church.
-Pete
it gives u this emotional feeling deep inside. an u ask urself, my saviour and my lord did that jus 4 me??? i am not even worthy to mention his name and he was slaughtered like a lamb for the whole world to see and carried the sins of every being to save me from eternal suffering. it truly is touching
-Pete
Personally I love the movie. I also like the Aramiac speach in it. It was the first time I had come across the langauge - amazing how much of it is similar to Arabic.
We had a lot of problems here in England when the film was first launched. What you have to remember is that Jews run much of the media in this world (Rupert Murdok, Alan Suger, the list is endless). These people do not want to see anything that would affect their faith or increase others. So we have the initial attack of saying that it was too violent (you know the old violent argument!!). Well as this was a subjective point and we all know that Jesus suffered much more than a film can ever show, the media were stuck for that for every person they produced taht verified its violence there were others that could counter act this. So they decided to complain that scenes where the devil would be walking amoungst the Jews portrayed Jews as evil and as the devil - this argument is comonly know as the by 'association' argument. Anyway this was never resolved and the film carried on.
When viewing the movie I think we have to be clear that the film only highlights the last few hours and not Jesus's life from begining to end. We all have flash backs and thoughts ofthe past. I personally complement the director for he brought sufficient amounts of this in Jesus's last few hours before cruisifiction. It would be unlikely that a person would recall their entire life's in a day, plus the film may have to be called something else as it would concentrate of Christianity and not the last day.
An excellent film that will permanentlyt be in my collection and gets viewed regularly. Certainly has pushed Gold Finger into 2nd place !!
[move]Monica[/move]
I still recomend that you get a chance to see it. Get somebody to sit with you and then perhaps they can direct you away from sceens that may been to dounting for you.