![]() (The Passion is obviously not a 'snuff film' anyway-you're supposed to feel emotional connection to the characters and not just sadism. The people calling this a 'snuff film' obviously haven't watched it and are just parroting that one loser critic. Even Roger Ebert, one of the few critics who 'got' the film, estimated that '100 minutes, maybe more' of this two hour film was concerned with graphic torture. ![]() Is it so horrifying that a film appears which demands you take the implications of brutality seriously? Who is really the degenerate here, Mel Gibson or American society as a whole? That being said, there is an anguish which pervades every frame of this film and I could maybe see how that can color people's perception and memory of the violence. The violence criticisms are especially silly given that we live in this culture where audiences and critics regularly gush over shows where graphic violence is played for laughs (Fight Club), nihilism (Game of Thrones), or both (Tarantino). It is too well made and was way too popular to simply dismiss, and that's why it was so controversial. The soundtrack is criminally underrated by itself. You can't fault the direction because the minimal dialogue leads to a more visual story. ![]() You can't fault the dialogue and line delivery because it's not even in English. Both the absurd accusations of antisemitism (in a movie where almost all the characters are Jewish, and where the Romans soldiers are more brutally inhuman than anyone else), and the hypocritical criticism of the violence (there are only TWO sequences in the movie that are difficult to watch, and the first-the scourging-happens around 50 minutes in) are overblown and hyped up because these are the only criticisms people can latch on to. Gibson could have toned everything down, but then would have been met with apathy or mockery. which is precisely why so many people can't handle it.
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