Who saw The Passion?

[Rudey]

JAM I've brought up issues I had with the movie and every single person has side stepped them. In fact the idea of saying someone has to see this movie before they can comment is ridiculous. Furthermore, I don't care if people are sensitive to MY feelings. But what nobody seems to be able to grasp is that you cannot begin to understand how a people can feel if you are not them; it's incredibly condescending to keep saying you don't understand or that they are wrong in their sentiments.

-Rudey

Originally posted by justamom
[B][B]ThetaPrincess-I think that people get out of the movie what they take into it. If they are looking for anti-semitism going in, then they will get that out of it.

I totally agree with this. As an example, when Jesus Christ Superstar was attacked, one reason was because they showed Christ too MUCH like a man, stopping short of the Resurrection.
I FELT the Resurrection in the musical movement at the end of the
final act. When I sat my parents down and made them listen, they understood...others thought I was daft!

No one likes to have their feelings negated...
Rudey, no one on this site has pointed any fingers. Most of us ARE sensitive to your feelings.

I think what most people are saying is THEY don't see the anti-Semitism. Sure, it would be naive to think that some nut cases won't pull out of this movie responsibility of the Jewish people for His death, but that's like saying the idiots who watched the Matrix or Natural Born Killers (I still consider these recent examples of "placing blame") got some kind of message from the content of those movies that said it's OK to go out and kill innocents.

Many on this board hold different beliefs, when one side can acknowledge that WE ALL (not a single group or groups) are responsible, I'd call that progress.

On another forum, they are discussing different elements of this movie. The main feeling is the same-He died for ALL of us and ALL our sins. No cognizant person would think otherwise. I understand fearing unreasonable people. We all do in different ways and for different reasons.