It is exactly due to the ‘violence’ of Mel’s film that made it so very real, to me.
What Christ endured was violent, the fact that Mel didn’t avoid that reality, was key to the film’s message.
To ‘see’ what Christ endured, for my salvation, was a film worth seeing. It’s humbling to say the least.
To me it would have been too traumatic to see how our Savior endured the treatment He suffered. I still can’t get myself to see it.