The Passion of the Christ (Definitive Edition) [Blu-ray]
by Mel Gibson
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Actor: Christo Jivkov, Francesco De Vito, Jim Caviezel, Maia Morgenstern, Monica BellucciDirector: Mel Gibson
Brand: Fox
Cinematographer: Caleb Deschanel
Producer: Mel Gibson
Writer: Mel Gibson
Producer: Bruce Davey
Producer: Enzo Sisti
Producer: Stephen McEveety
Writer: Benedict Fitzgerald
Blu-ray: Region Code 1
Audio: Hebrew (Unknown); English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); Portuguese (Subtitled); Cantonese (Subtitled); Korean (Subtitled); Mandarin Chinese (Subtitled); Tagalog (Subtitled); Thai (Subtitled); Hebrew (Original Language); Aramaic (Original Language); Latin (Original Language); English (Dubbed)
Format: Anamorphic, Color, DTS Surround Sound, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.40:1
Running Time: 126 minutes
Published: 2009-02-01
Blu-ray Release Date: 2009-02-17
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Movie Reviews of The Passion of the Christ (Definitive Edition) [Blu-ray]
Movie Review: Who do you say that I AM?
Summary: 5 Stars
I'm looking forward to this Blu-ray release. Fantastic movie! Very moving and true to the scriptures.
For the believer, this is a must see movie that provides a great depiction of the events of Good Friday. While not pretty to watch, it will make the following scriptures even more poignant as you see the price that was ALREADY paid for healing, forgiveness and reconciliation by the Lamb of God:
Isaiah 50:6 I gave My back to those who struck Me, and My cheeks to those who plucked out the beard; I did not hide My face from shame and spitting.
Isaiah 53:4-6 But He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities; The chastisement for our peace was upon Him, And by His stripes we are healed.
1 Peter 2:21-24 For to this you were called, because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that you should follow His steps: " Who committed no sin, nor was deceit found in His mouth"; who, when He was reviled, did not revile in return; when He suffered, He did not threaten, but committed Himself to Him who judges righteously; who Himself bore our sins in His own body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live for righteousness -- by whose stripes you were healed.
Zechariah 12:9-11 "And I will pour on the house of David and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem the Spirit of grace and supplication; then they will look on Me whom they pierced. Yes, they will mourn for Him as one mourns for his only son, and grieve for Him as one grieves for a firstborn.
For the non-believer, it should be even more uncomfortable to watch. There's clearly a message for them too. It's the very same message provided to the Pharisees and Sadducees which rejected their Messiah.
Psalm 118:22 The stone which the builders rejected has become the chief cornerstone.
Psalm 14:1 (repeated Psalm 53:1) The fool says in his heart, "There is no God." They are corrupt, their deeds are vile; there is no one who does good.
Isaiah 6:9-10 (The Message) He said, "Go and tell this people: 'Listen hard, but you aren't going to get it; look hard, but you won't catch on.'
Make these people blockheads, with fingers in their ears and blindfolds on their eyes, so they won't see a thing, won't hear a word, so they won't have a clue about what's going on and, yes, so they won't turn around and be made whole."
And the whole argument over whether or not Mel Gibson depicted the Jews as evil is just plain ignorant. Jesus is a Jew. His disciples and his mother and brothers were Jews. It wasn't the Jews, or even the Romans, that nailed Christ to the Cross. It was our sins. And neither Jew nor Roman was able to force Him to go through the Passion. He did so willingly!
1 Peter 2:24 "He himself bore our sins" in his body on the cross, so that we might die to sins and live for righteousness;"
John 1:29 The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him, and said, "Behold! The Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!"
John 10:17-18 "Therefore My Father loves Me, because I lay down My life that I may take it again. No one takes it from Me, but I lay it down of Myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This command I have received from My Father."
The message that He preached to the religious leaders, priests, lawyers, fishermen, tax collectors, soldiers, and whores, Jews and Gentiles alike, 2,000 years ago is the very same Gospel (good news) for today.
Luke 4:15-21 He went to Nazareth, where he had been brought up, and on the Sabbath day he went into the synagogue, as was his custom. He stood up to read, and the scroll of the prophet Isaiah was handed to him. Unrolling it, he found the place where it is written: "The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners and recovery of sight for the blind, to set the oppressed free, to proclaim the year of the Lord's favor." Then he rolled up the scroll, gave it back to the attendant and sat down. The eyes of everyone in the synagogue were fastened on him. He began by saying to them, "Today this scripture is fulfilled in your hearing."
Hebrews 13:8 Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.
2 Corinthians 6:2 For He says: "In an acceptable time I have heard you, and in the day of salvation I have helped you." Behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation.
And the question that Christ asked His disciples is the same one He asks of everyone. It's up to each of us to respond with our own lips.
Mark 8:27-29,31 Now Jesus and His disciples went out to the towns of Caesarea Philippi; and on the road He asked His disciples, saying to them, "Who do men say that I am?" So they answered, "John the Baptist; but some say, Elijah; and others, one of the prophets." He said to them, "But who do you say that I am?" Peter answered and said to Him, "You are the Christ." ...And He began to teach them that the Son of Man must suffer many things, and be rejected by the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and after three days rise again.
Just as depicted in the "Passion of the Christ." So, what's your answer?
Romans 10:8-13 But what does it say? "The word is near you; it is in your mouth and in your heart," that is, the message concerning faith that we proclaim: If you declare with your mouth, "Jesus is Lord," and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you profess your faith and are saved. As Scripture says, "Anyone who believes in him will never be put to shame." For there is no difference between Jew and Gentile--the same Lord is Lord of all and richly blesses all who call on him, for, "Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved."
Hopefully, you do so in this life rather than after.
Romans 14:9,11-12 For to this end Christ died and rose and lived again, that He might be Lord of both the dead and the living. ...For we shall all stand before the judgment seat of Christ. For it is written: " As I live, says the LORD, every knee shall bow to Me, and every tongue shall confess to God." So then each of us shall give account of himself to God.
Philippians 2:6-11 Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage; rather, he made himself nothing by taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness. And being found in appearance as a human being, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to death -- even death on a cross! Therefore God exalted him to the highest place and gave him the name that is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue acknowledge that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
Summary of The Passion of the Christ (Definitive Edition) [Blu-ray]
PASSION OF THE CHRIST - Blu-Ray MovieAfter all the controversy and rigorous debate has subsided, Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ will remain a force to be reckoned with. In the final analysis, "Gibson's Folly" is an act of personal bravery and commitment on the part of its director, who self-financed this $25-30 million production to preserve his artistic goal of creating the Passion of Christ ("Passion" in this context meaning "suffering") as a quite literal, in-your-face interpretation of the final 12 hours in the life of Jesus, scripted almost directly from the gospels (and spoken in Aramaic and Latin with a relative minimum of subtitles) and presented as a relentless, 126-minute ordeal of torture and crucifixion. For Christians and non-Christians alike, this film does not "entertain," and it's not a film that one can "like" or "dislike" in any conventional sense. (It is also emphatically not a film for children or the weak of heart.) Rather, The Passion is a cinematic experience that serves an almost singular purpose: to show the scourging and death of Jesus Christ in such horrifically graphic detail (with Gibson's own hand pounding the nails in the cross) that even non-believers may feel a twinge of sorrow and culpability in witnessing the final moments of the Son of God, played by Jim Caviezel in a performance that's not so much acting as a willful act of submission, so intense that some will weep not only for Christ, but for Caviezel's unparalleled test of endurance.
Leave it to the intelligentsia to debate the film's alleged anti-Semitic slant; if one judges what is on the screen (so gloriously served by John Debney's score and Caleb Deschanel's cinematography), there is fuel for debate but no obvious malice aforethought; the Jews under Caiaphas are just as guilty as the barbaric Romans who carry out the execution, especially after Gibson excised (from the subtitles, if not the soundtrack) the film's most controversial line of dialogue. If one accepts that Gibson's intentions are sincere, The Passion can be accepted for what it is: a grueling, straightforward (some might say unimaginative) and extremely violent depiction of the Passion, guaranteed to render devout Christians speechless while it intensifies their faith. Non-believers are likely to take a more dispassionate view, and some may resort to ridicule. But one thing remains undebatable: with The Passion of the Christ, Gibson put his money where his mouth is. You can praise or damn him all you want, but you've got to admire his chutzpah. --Jeff Shannon
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