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May 21, 2009 marzellaharris

          When I first started to write about The Passion of Christ I wanted to focus on Jesus carrying the cross on his back, and what the meaning of it was. The more I allowed input to come in from my peers and my teacher. I realized that the movie Passion of Christ may have a deeper meaning then what I interpreted. I realized that Jesus was not the only one who walked through the city with a cross on his back. So now I have to wonder rather or not the cross means something significant in the movie. Considering that the bible is the major influence on the Passion of the Christ. Its only logical to think that it’s main focus was about Jesus. The director Mel Gibsons interpretation about Passion of Christ can be neither wrong nor right. However I do know now that the Passion of the Christ has many other strong view points that I never mentioned or focused on. For example when Jesus was walking through the crowd with the cross  on his back, on one side was his mother Mary, and the other Mary that is mentioned in the bible. On the other side was the devil walking/ gliding through the crowd watching and waiting for Jesus to be crucified. What seems to have been portrayed was simple the good VS. evil. In some weird way would bring this movie back to the original battle that I can remember, God Vs the devil. It would be safe to say that the cross is a symbol of trials, tribulations, and stress that we as the people mainly put on ourselves, could not be a absolute concrete statement. Now that I was able to research what I have wrote about, and what I thought my main focus would be. I have found that I myself have conflicted my thoughts and words dramatically.

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• 1. amcentire  |  May 21, 2009 at 8:12 pm

  This is interesting. While the cross represents trials and tribulations in life, is there any other possible interpretation that the use of it in the movie suggests? Who makes Jesus carry it, and what do they say when they do? Does Mel Gibson include the scene from the Bible that has a man from the crowd taking up the cross for Jesus when he can’t go any further? If not, what does that omission mean? Are there any points in which the movie’s depiction is not like the depiction in the Gospels? (And, which gospel depiction are you using?)

  As for counterarguments, I think it’s possible to argue that in this version of the story the cross (one of the many horrible instruments of torture the Romans use on Jesus) represents the power of the government to crush a movement by the people. Imagine if Jesus had been executed by America in the 1980s – would the electric chair symbolize his personal trials or would it symbolize the power of the state to put him to death? Grisly to think about, but possibly theme in The Passion. Are there other symbols of Roman Imperial power in this movie?

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