Film · Icon · 2004
Pass it on
The Passion of the Christ
65Worth an evening.
The death is not softened. The lingering on the body is more than you need.
The review
It's the last hours of Jesus on film, and it will not make them short or clean. Mary stays. The man does not come down. That is the measure.
Do not put this on for a child; the violence is why. An adult can watch it once and go back to the written account, which is sterner and kinder than the shots. The film is a witness. It is not the only way to tell it, and it is not a balanced one.
Journal
Keep The Passion of the Christ in the record.
No house has filed a sentence for this yet.
Live Historic number 65. Yours can differ.
The glance
Republic and Temperance are the thin ones.
Does anyone owe a neighbor, a law, or a town — or is every person out for themselves?
This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.
Consider this
October Sky
76 instead of 65
October Sky is still a drama film, and it scores 76 instead of 65. What you gain is industry: The rockets are practice, scrap, and more practice.
The eight
- 6Industry
The cross is carried; soldiers do a job; the women stay through the work of a death.
- 7Household
His mother does not leave the road. Family is present at the thing it cannot stop.
- 9Piety
This is the story, not a costume of it. Sacrifice and claimed obedience are the subject.
- 8Courage
He stays on the road when staying is the whole courage. The film does not cut away.
- 4Republic
Rome and the council are a machine. The film is about one condemnation, not governing.
- 3Temperance
Suffering is lingered on past witness into spectacle. More blood than the story needs.
- 8Truth
It does not turn the death into a lesson with a smile. Brutality is not pretended away.
- 7Stewardship
A life is given rather than kept. The charge to watchers is old; the film invents none.
Where to watch
Finding the page.
Live Historic · The Passion of the Christ · 65IMDb tt0335345
