On Sunday, Maryanne and I went with some friends to see The Passion of the Christ, the somewhat controversial film by Mel Gibson. After seeing the movie, I can see why some people would get themselves worked up over it, but would also add that those people probably wouldn't be very rational to begin with. The only way I see this movie causing feelings of anti-Semitism is if a person is already predisposed to be so.
The movie is rather graphic. But as I told Maryanne, and later Amy, it's just a dramatic, graphic representation of a story we already know.
Well, most of us know it. As it turns out, most of the people we went to the movie went weren't very familiar with the story, as demonstrated when they mentioned they wished the movie would have contained more background, so they knew what was going on. Maryanne commented that they probably didn't see the same movie she and I did. I have to agree with her.
