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<\/p>\nWe’re currently watching the Oscars, and so far The Lord Of The Rings have nabbed the costume and art direction awards. It looks like it’s going to be a shoo-in for Best Picture, but favorites have lost before. In case they lose though, I hope that my favorite film over the past year, Lost In Translation, gets the nod. <\/p>\n
The biggest winner for me so far though, seems to be Angelina Jolie’s dress. <\/p>\n
It seems appropriate that while watching this year’s awards, I’ll jot down some of my thoughts on what is sure to be a film that wil be vying for next year’s awards – The Passion of the Christ. <\/p>\n
I have to start by saying that while I consider myself a good Catholic (basically meaning I believe in God), I am not someone who is overly religious. I’ve attended Catholic schools from elementary to college, so I’ve studied the bible all throughout my school years as part of the curriculum. I also go to church every Sunday. On the other hand, I haven’t read the bible in years, and usually during Sunday, my mind wanders while the priest says the homily. There are also things in the church that I don’t necessarily agree or believe in.<\/p>\n
Having said this about me, I have to say that this is one of the most moving motion pictures I’ve seen. I won’t go so far to say that this was a experience that changed me, but it definitely reaffirms my belief that Christ went through a lot of pain and suffering to save mankind. This film does such an excellent job of showing the audience just what Jesus Christ might have went through in the hours before his crucifixion. This film was so good that it was mesmerizing throughout its entire 2+ hours. This despite it being spoken in an ancient language, and also despite showing some of the most realistic acts of brutality ever captured on film.<\/p>\n
On that subject, this movie has gotten a lot of criticism for was what a lot of people deemed as “unnecessary violence” and “gore”. I think the violence portrayed on screen was realistic, and I definitely see how the Romans in those times could have been as brutal and sadistic as shown. The public punishment and executions which were done in those days were definitely not meant to entertain people, rather they were meant to scare people into obeying the law. The film doesn’t even overly gross out its audience by showing violence gratitously. It only does it enough to get it point across – that Jesus suffered, a lot for that matter, for man’s salvation. <\/p>\n
Case in point – during a scene during the scourging at the pillar, while the Romans were using those “whips with claws” (for lack of a better description). The filmmakers could have shown each and every time those contraptions hit Jesus’ back, and also could have shown each piece of flesh that was ripped off during each contact. But they didn’t. They only let the audience see it once, and the rest of the whipping was done off-screen. In my opinion, this even made it more convincing, because in the audience’s mind, each whipping was progressively getting worse, and therefore let them feel Christ’s suffering more and more. And it was the same way throughout the film None of the violence was done just for violence’s sake.<\/p>\n
This amazing film is definitely a work of love by Mel Gibson. See this film.
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We’re currently watching the Oscars, and so far The Lord Of The Rings have nabbed the costume and art direction awards. It looks like it’s going to be a shoo-in for Best Picture, but favorites have lost before. In case they lose though, I hope that my favorite film over the past year, Lost In […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thefranciscos.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thefranciscos.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thefranciscos.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefranciscos.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefranciscos.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefranciscos.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thefranciscos.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefranciscos.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefranciscos.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}