Font Rants on Many Subjects

And now with feeling The Passion of the Christ. I havn't seen it; so my vision is colored by the reviews and the chatter. However everyone is talking about this movie; so I will address it context of the conversation it has spurred. Allow me to define
Point 1. I'm not going to see the Passion of the Christ. I know the story. I walked the Via Dolorosa in Jerusalem, and prayed at Golgatha, and within the empty tomb. I don't have the attention span to sit through 15 minutes of a man getting whipped. I get it. The crucifition was terrible.
Point 2. This is without a doubt the most ironic movie ever made. I believe every generation seeks to redefine Jesus in their own image. Preists and other proclaimed guardians of spiritual power, always seek to control the image of Christ we create. The crucifiction is always manipulated by the powerful; but the truth always comes through. Think about it. What is the passion more than Christ submitting to temporal material authority? In the fevered dreams of Mel, he is simply retelling the story of Christ's Cruxifiction; but he's edited to his own ends. He's broughtchrist into the temporal sphere one more time, and the result is yet another Crucifiction. And let us finally remember that in the hollywood version; it wasn't the jews, it wasn't the romans; it was the Director who crucified him.