Today's defense is set up against the attacks the Star has made on Mel. Apparently Mel Gibson and the Catholic community, along with the Christian faith, have all conspired to make a violent propaganda film about Jesus. The Star accuses Mel Gibson of making a snuff movie. Hmmmmm...that's a load a bullshit. But, I'm gonna take my time an finish the Star's other arguements. Apparently the Christian faith and movie goers are no better than Osama Bin Laden, revelling in the violence that has given us back our faith.......
Okay, so Mel Gibson has made a propaganda snuff film, eh? seems like crap to me. Oh, the conspiracy...God is recruiting us to fight a war on the world. I saw overtones of subliminal messages reaming from each scene...the Aramaic spoken was actual a message saying: Join the army of Christ and let's rule the world and kill all other faiths...please. Never once did I hear a line or see a scene in which the message was: "You better believe in this or else".
Now about that comment on The Passion being a snuff film..I see where a warped mind bent on bringing down this movie can get such an idea. The film depicts the torture and brutality Christ endured before his death in order to save a people, whether you believe in that is another fact. And in case the writer down at the Toronto star isn't smart enough to know, I'll explain something to him that maybe his hatred stopped him from seeing. This is not a movie about the life of Christ. It is not a sugar coated version of the Lord's son and his life. The movie is called THE PASSION OF THE CHRIST. The key word in this title is Passion. In case you didn't know, passion translated from latin doesn't mean intimate, of fervent, but refers rather to the word 'suffering'. Suffering...THE SUffering of the Christ. Get it? That's why the movie doesn't focus on his life, but rather his death. If they knew, maybe journalists like the one from the Star wouldn't have gone in wanting the sugar coated version that comes on TV every Easter. As for the comment on snuffing, well Star journalist, you seemed to praise Kill Bill for it's violence, justifying it by it's stylization of slaughter in the same article. Hmmm...hypocrit. The Passion isn't a movie about cruelty; it is a theme, but not the end result and message. The message behind the suffering is to show all mankind what one man endured for a people, to save us from eternal damnation. The message is about love of humanity, and the willingness of one man to endure such torture to see his fellow human beings free from sin and hell. And as for Kill Bill, this is a snuff film if ever I saw one. Uma thurman's character the Bride goes out specifically intent on snuffing out the lives of her former colleages....and for what..for love? No, for revenge. She slaughters her enemies in an array of disturbing ways, and the entire film ends up glorifying violence, and the Star has the audacity to say: Christ's suffering was a snuff film in the waiting. Idiots. The Bible says, he had to die that way in order to fulfill the prophesies. It was already set out according to the Bible. Yeah, lots of cruelty was shown to him and the violence is a big factor, but the end message isn't kill you enemies or violence is good; it's love. Hell, Christ even says in the movie and Bible: "Forgive them Father, they know not what they do". In Kill Bill, the Bride's message is mercy is weakness, killing is strength, violence is the way to settle wrong doings. And if you argue with that, show where the humanity in that movie is. Kill Bill revels in violence and gore, it feast on it. In the Passion, you are made to fear the actual results of violence. In its depiction of Christ's cuffering you see the true nature and outcome of violent acts. In every other film, you find violence glorified and the bloody results numbed for your viewing pleasure, making your senses dull to the actual outcomes. Maybe that's why this movie is such a shock...for the first time in a long time you go and see someone's pain and you actually aren't numb to it...I jumped and squirmed in the theatre, b/c it was so real that I could feel Christ' pain in some small manner. and in that i understood his pain was much more and I felt sympathy for him. I din't walk out, as I did of Kill Bill, feeling adrenelene pumped and ready to settle scores. Kill Bill left me feeling nothing about the gore, numb. This Passion of the Christ made me weak at the knees and my emotions were spent. It was real.
And lastly, are us Christians revelling in the delight of the bloody violence and martyrdom that this movie apparently preaches, very much like Osama Bin Laden did when his martryed men crashed the world trade towers? Well, apparently that is what the star says. What a low down and dirty way to stop people from seeing this movie..comparing us to Osama. Here's the difference, ass (from the Star, not u the reader..hehehe), in our beliefs our martrydom. Osama Bin Laden's idea of martyrdom involves not only self sacrifice, but the death of thousands of inncoent people to get a message across. Christ died and sacrificed himself; it was his destiny, what he was born to do. He wasn't cowardly enough to send other people to perform his task, and he didn't take other people's lives in the process. He bore the responsibility on his own to save humanity and even forgave his persecutors. Osama just sacrificed his men for blood shed in hatred. Thedeath that resulted was done in hatred. Christ died with intentions of love, and he alone died. As for the audience reveling in the bloodshed, well we are all sickened by the violence, but in that we realize the reality of the suffering Christ endured. We are human again in our sympathy toward this man, whether you believe in him or not. Catholics have not been out there sayinmg the violence is good and the message is death to all who don't believe in Christ! As for Bin Laden, h edidn't even have the guts to perform his cowardly acts himself and who is he saving by them- none, just killing innocent people in hatred for the West. And it is down right disgusting for you, a journalist, to make that reference in an attenmpt to sway opinions. I have lost all respect I held for the Star.
A number of attempts have been made to see this movie averted and aborted. A claim of anti-semtism has already been shot down by both Christian and Jewish leaders. Now journalists and haters turn to the violance saying it is a snuff film, when other movies like Kill Bill, are out there glorifying violence for us. And the latest is the comparison of the film's audience being like Osama Bin Laden. Come on. What's next: Why not accuse the movie of starting a new world war. Run people, The Passion is starting up a war that no one will survive..with $135 million dollars in gross, one thinks we have millions of recruits already...but here's the thing not one act of violence has been committed in the name of Christ thus far. But the Star will soon argue otherwise.