The Visual Bible - Matthew
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Actor: Bruce Marchiano, Dawid Minnaar, Gerrit Schoonhoven, Kevin Smith (III), Richard KileyDVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 265 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-08-01
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: GNN International Corp. and Visual Bible, LLC
Movie Reviews of The Visual Bible - Matthew
Movie Review: The best of all movies about Jesus so far
Summary: 5 Stars
This was an experience rather than just a great movie for me....
I have very often wished I were "There" at that time, and have endlessly envied the people who saw and heard Jesus.
I did not expect that "Matthew" would bring me as close as possible to my wish. The director's and Bruce Marchiano's 'vision' and understanding of who Jesus really was, their attention to His words about his "joy" produced a wonderful movie.
I think that for people to follow Jesus leaving their life behind in a moment, He must have been a very warm, friendly, caring man, a young, fit, tanned carpenter who walked miles in the sun to get around. Bruce Marchiano did an incredible job showing us that. We have been so conditioned to avoid affection and touching people, that many of us think that's the way human beings should act with each other.
Yet in the Middle East, it is customary to this day for men to walk with their male friends with their arms around each other's shoulders!!!
Jesus was Love above all, divine Love in human form; could not have been affected by human "norms"-he must have been a man with the purest, most genuine behavior, something we, today, have to think HARD in order to imagine (sadly!).
On the other hand, Jesus telling off the Pharisees is a gut-wrenching scene, extremely powerful and emotional. I even doubt Bruce Marchiano was "acting" the sorrow and anger of it. After all, he's devoted his life to working for God after the making of "Matthew", which forced him to study the Bible intensely.
This movie kept me on the sofa for the entire 4 hours-often in tears, often with an unbearable feeling of "being there, then", not as a spectator, but as a participant .
For the first time, Jesus was truly the real focus of the movie, and his parables, sharp intellect, dialectic skill worthy of a great lawyer, and teaching, with Bruce Marchiano's excellent delivery, became so easily understood. No Hollywood excesses and distractions here.
Beautiful cinematography, incredibly realistic landscapes, costumes, gorgeous-just gorgeous music....nothing was missing from this film. Well....the Hollywood excess was missing, and it was not needed.
I have no idea why Jesus has been portrayed as rather aloof and serious, as if always burdened until "Matthew", but I just feel it's been inaccurate. Jesus was fully a Jewish man in his time on Earth, who laughed and loved and was not ashamed to cry in public-as it is documented in the gospels. He was dealing with simple, uneducated people-their following Him without food for 2-3 days to hear Him, and loving him, tells me that He related to them on "their" level.
I watch all of the movie or part of it at least once a week, and it never gets "old".
I know from Bruce Marchiano's website that he wants to fund strictly from donations, not banks, another word-for-word movie,"The Gospel according to John", and I hope he -or rather, we- accomplishes it soon-in fact I can't wait. In the years that have passed since "Matthew" his love, knowledge, and understanding of Jesus has grown a lot, so I think he'll bring us an even more inspired movie.
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