First Passion viewers emerge stunned

The Telegraph News UK ^ | 03/27/2004 | Jonathan Petre

[RoseofTexas]

GOOOOOOOOD, more free pubicity for the Passion!! The curiosity crowds will soon be making it's path to the theater doors! Go Mel Go!

[Old fashioned]

This is the best review I've seen.

[Elsie]

Where would they be without them?

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AMEN!!

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John 6
66. From this time many of his disciples turned back and no longer followed him.
67. "You do not want to leave too, do you?" Jesus asked the Twelve.
68. Simon Peter answered him, "Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life.

[Elsie]

"Weren't there 10?"

[GeronL]

and eight of the 180-strong audience at yesterday's afternoon screening at the Odeon in Maidstone, Kent, walked out angrily long before the end.

What did 2 more leave?

[SchuylerTheViking]

The Passion was the most individual experience movie I've ever seen. Each person leaving will have a different response, different emotions and different follow through.

So true. I've seen it twice so far and it was a very different experience the second time. I was much more able to appreciate the acting and the score the second time. It was also neat to recognize (to some degree) at which points they switched between languages. I even caught myself in a huge mistake based on the first viewing in that initially I did not know who the person was who appeared before Jesus just before he said "Father, forgive them for they know not what they do". That was a genuine surprise. Anyway, if you do see it again, I highly recommend doing whatever you must to see it with people who have not seen it before. The "yeah man, I've been there" feeling is very cool.

[TUX]

How can a sweet priest,pastor, preaching love and tolerance convey how much God hates sin. Some who claim to be Christian will tell you they do not believe in the concept of sin.

The suffering and shame required to pay the price for my sin. Deliverance fron the slavery of sin and death that was paid by Christ the Messiah was horrendous. Many strong men did not survive the scourging which was designed to bring the condemned near death from trauma and blood loss. The 40 stroke limit was to prevent premature death. The only omission in the film from a historical scourging and crucification was the contemned had no covering and was naked to increase the suffering and shame.

Never has preaching had the impact of this visual presentation. By His stripes we are healed.

[longtermmemmory]

It is an authentic as possible depiction of a 20 AD Roman crucifiction. Nothing less was advertised. Considering the fact that experience was done VOLUNTARILY makes the whole event even more amazing.

[SuziQ]

"I am offended that the Church has decided to give out free tickets to a film like this. It is almost blasphemous."

Huh?

[SuziQ]

They had boxes of tissues at the exit,

I took one with me to the theater; used almost half of it by the time the movie was done. VEY powerful!

[Frank_2001]

Thanks for the link.

[Capriole]

Yes, I thought it was gross--and heartrending. But The Passion is different qualitatively. In the first place, SPR is not just unremitting agony for 2 hours; there are interludes of horror, yes, but it's not almost nonstop, as it is in The Passion. Second, you know that soldier is not your personal Savior, who loved you before you were born and is enduring death so that you won't have to suffer and die. That is, the soldier was willing to risk death, but doubtless would have avoided it if he could; The Passion makes you aware that the Lord could have walked away at any time, and deliberately chose to endure all this for us. We are each of us personally responsible, through our sins, for what He bore. That makes all the agony harder to witness.

[GeorgiaYankee]

looney Limey bookmark!

[ChocChipCookie]

You're right. That's an excellent review, just excellent. Thanks for the link.

[WaterDragon]

Incredible!

[My Dog Likes Me]

That was a very moving review.

But is the author Anglican or Catholic?

[xp38]

Thanks for that link to that review. The best reviews give new depths of understanding and perpective to what you have seen and that one does so greatly.

[B4Ranch]

I surprised nobody said there wasn't enough sex in the movie. That seems to be an attraction for quite a few folks when they go to see a show.

[repub32]

GOD people are just so ignorant dont they get the difference between the violence here and lets say the violence in "The Chainsaw Massacre", dont they get the point of the violence. Ignorant ignorant people and they call themselves children of GOD unfortunately these touchy feely followers will perish in the end thenmselves for their ignorance.

[Elsie]

#33:   8 out of 180 walk out and they get a story about them... bo story about the 172 others?

#44:  "Weren't there 10?"
#45:  What did 2 more leave?

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Sorry.....

 

It was a reference to this passage of Scripture.

 

Luke 17:12-19

 12.  As he was going into a village, ten men who had leprosy met him. They stood at a distance
 13.  and called out in a loud voice, "Jesus, Master, have pity on us!"
 14.  When he saw them, he said, "Go, show yourselves to the priests." And as they went, they were cleansed.
 15.  One of them, when he saw he was healed, came back, praising God in a loud voice.
 16.  He threw himself at Jesus' feet and thanked him--and he was a Samaritan.
 17.  Jesus asked, "Were not all ten cleansed? Where are the other nine?
 18.  Was no one found to return and give praise to God except this foreigner?"
 19.  Then he said to him, "Rise and go; your faith has made you well."

#33:   8 out of 180 walk out and they get a story about them... bo story about the 172 others?

#44:  "Weren't there 10?"
#45:  What did 2 more leave?

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