Out of Time

Disclaimer: I don’t consider myself religious. First of all, I don’t think I deserve to live in any paradise your god has to offer. Secondly, that’s it.

We saw ‘The Passion of Christ’ last night and there were a couple of things that grabbed my attention. I was impressed with the foreign languages spoken in this movie: Aramic and Latin (that is Classical Latin), but I had the feeling something was terribly wrong by the use of the two ancient languages. This is hard to explain, but imagine somebody shooting a movie situated in the Fifties and the main characters cursing typical words that would fit perfectly in our times. Wouldn’t that look weird?

I had the same feeling about the Passion. I truly wonder if there were words like ‘idiot’ in Roman at the time of the crucifixion.

Additionally, I’m not so sure what Gibson’s intention was with this movie. To show that the Romans could be cruel? The ‘truth’? Not to mention the dreaded close ups, slow motions and (yes, yes) pokey music. I long for the day that somebody sets a military march (as in music) to images of Jesus’ crucifixion. Wouldn’t that make more sense than tearjerking violin music?

Out of time.

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