Current mood:

angry

Passion (Torture) of Christ
Mel Gibson has totally lost his mind, or he is a complete and utter sado-masochist, or he wants attention, or ....

I kind of expected the mawkishly weak Middle-Eastern soundtrack and the utterly unhistoric "humanizing" flashbacks (No WAY! Jesus invented the table!) -- after all, it is a Hollywood film. If I weren't with Boy Who Was Driving to the movie, I would've walked the hell out during the torturey. I mean, I know what Christ went through. As a Christian, I believe in his sacrifice. But I did not bargain for a nonstop pornographic depiction of whipping, caning, beating, nailing, prodding, goading, insulting, etc etc.

I know children are starving in Africa. MUST I see maggot-ridden bloated boney young bodies? I don't think so. I know what goes on in factory farms, I know how people live in the projects, I know about Dickensian child labor. I know what happens during a rape. An electrocution. A murder. WHY do people assume that these events have to be graphically depicted, in slow-motion, larger-than-life, with all appropriate musical and theatrical emphasis in order for us to truly UNDERSTAND the horror and pain?

Mel is just like PETA -- the shock tactics are insulting and unnecessary. This movie was utterly pointless and is going on my Top Ten Worst Movies of All Time [that I have seen], which now reads as follows:

10. xXx
9. Blair Witch Project
8. Strange Brew
7. Titanic
6. Requiem for a Dream
5. American Beauty
4. Star Wars -- all of them
3. Forrest Gump
2. Passion of Christ
1. Anything by Steven Spielberg