In reality, he is talking to himself alone, a mutter of confession without absolution

In reality, he is talking to himself alone, a mutter of confession without absolution

The Passion of the Christ

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Ecce homo. According to gospel, that’s what Pontius Pilate told the rebellious crowd demanding crucifixion, as he displayed a scourged Jesus in his humiliating crown of thorns: Behold the man. And now it’s Mel Gibson’s turn.

Ecce Mel, the man who made ”The Passion of the Christ” all but proclaims in his gaudily tormented, pornographically blood-drenched, anything but literal interpretation of the last 12 hours of Jesus’ life: Behold the movie star, laying everything on the line – bankability, reputation, most personal of religious beliefs – like a Crusader among infidels. Yet the Traditionalist Catholic filmmaker only appears to be preaching a stern sermon to a crowd of modern moviegoing sinners in need of a dose of shock and awe.

Gibson’s personal and idiosyncratic passion play arrives preceded by trumpets of promotional buildup and cymbal clashes of controversy over concerns that some might use the movie – as the Gospels themselves have historically been used – as a defense of anti-Semitism. Yet what’s most striking about the work itself is the weirdly trancelike, stubborn inwardness with which Gibson pursues his spiritual and temporal obsessions. Continua a leggere “In reality, he is talking to himself alone, a mutter of confession without absolution”

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