The Passion of the Christ

Saw The Passion of the Christ last night with Nickcole and her friend Mandy and her (now) fiancee Tim. It was quite a movie. Very realistic in every respect. I wasn't aware that the movie was going to be in another language. They went as far as to use the native tongue during the time of Jesus. Everything had to be read as subtitles. I usually will completely avoid movies like this since all the reading takes away from enjoying the movie. But, in this movie, it wasn't bad at all. For one thing, there wasn't a whole lot of dialog. When there was, it went pretty slow, so you could still view the movie comfortably. The movie basically depicted the arrest and brutal punishment that Jesus went through in his last hours with the movie finishing with the crucifixion. The movie was almost 2 1/2 hours long, and the movie was basically about the last four hours of his life, so, you can imagine that there wasn't much that was left out. This isn't a movie for kids at all. I really have no idea how they made it so realistic. The scene during and after Jesus was being punished was amazingly real. You can see his body being ripped apart. It's actually quite hard to watch. It really does make you think though. No matter if you believe that Jesus is the son of God, or not, most people agree that the events of Jesus' last hours are pretty accurate and did actually occur.