A couple more pro-Passion comments
As I've been discussing this with several of you, here are a couple more arguments in defense of the film:
1) No one can claim that this violence is gratituous. It is not. This violence is historical and it is, as we know and believe, incredibly purposeful.
2) No one complaines about other films that show horrific violence of a real historical event as being too violent (well at least not very often), because people generally believe that since it was a historical event we should take an account of it. The perfect example would be films on the holocaust. I recently watched "The Pianist". A tremendously good film. Yet, it was horrifically violent as it portrayed awful scenes of death carried out by the Nazi's. But I have never heard anyone come out against the violence in the film. It is understood that the violence is actually what happened, and, although horrible, it seems like in some way we "need" to see it.
3) The best statement I've heard yet came from a young boy who saw the film with his dad (which, by the way, I am against. Let's keep the kids home on this one). The boy is 12 years old. After the film his dad asked him what he thought about it. He pondered for a moment and then said, "This is the kind of film nobody should see and everybody should see." The kid is right on.
1) No one can claim that this violence is gratituous. It is not. This violence is historical and it is, as we know and believe, incredibly purposeful.
2) No one complaines about other films that show horrific violence of a real historical event as being too violent (well at least not very often), because people generally believe that since it was a historical event we should take an account of it. The perfect example would be films on the holocaust. I recently watched "The Pianist". A tremendously good film. Yet, it was horrifically violent as it portrayed awful scenes of death carried out by the Nazi's. But I have never heard anyone come out against the violence in the film. It is understood that the violence is actually what happened, and, although horrible, it seems like in some way we "need" to see it.
3) The best statement I've heard yet came from a young boy who saw the film with his dad (which, by the way, I am against. Let's keep the kids home on this one). The boy is 12 years old. After the film his dad asked him what he thought about it. He pondered for a moment and then said, "This is the kind of film nobody should see and everybody should see." The kid is right on.
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