[montag813]

And Gibson's personal interpretation is spectacularly vicious. Three of the Gospels have but a one-line reference to Jesus's scourging. The fourth has no reference at all. In Gibson's movie this becomes 10 minutes of the most unremitting sadism in the history of film

I am forced to agree with Krauthammer here. It greatly irritates me that Gibson chose to depart from the Gospels in so many places and use in their place the lurid fantasies of some stupid German nun. Who gives a crap what she wrote? The Gospels are more than sufficient to tell the story. Anne Catherine Emmerich should have been left out.

[Taliesan]

You're assuming the flogging scene was based on the nun, and not on Isaiah 53. Which, of course, was on the screen in the first frame.