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26 February 2004 
Mel Gets Medieval
Scott Holleran of Box Office Mojo on The Passion:
By Gibson's own admission, The Passion presents the essence of religion. It's the Bible told in literal images, imbued with no romanticization of goals as in Lilies of the Field, no sense of jubilation as in Sister Act, no sense of the sublime as in The Song of Bernadette. It's religion offered for what it is -- abject misery here on earth -- with no hint of the larger than life scope of Cecil B. DeMille's The Ten Commandments. The Passion promises vengeful Jews, a weeping whore and the most vile execution; in short, unrefined religion.I have no intention of seeing this film, mainly because of the much-reported surfeit of violence and gore. On a side note, the more I see Gibson in interviews, the more creeped out I get. As Holleran points out in his commentary, the man is serious about this stuff.
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