Rarely did a week go by without someone asking to sing "Nothing but the Blood" or "There's power in the Blood" or "There is a fountain filled with Blood (drawn from Emmanuel 's veins)." How much blood and violence are necessary, I found myself wondering, for the crucifixion story to be authentic? Does Gibson's R-rated account rank among the most faithful Jesus films ever? Or is it simply riding the current wave of "reality" programming? Is it brutally honest, or just brutal? Scroll meets screenplay, or Stigmata meets Kill Bill?Īt the church of my childhood, we talked a lot about Christ's blood. Imagine, rather, a moving, breathing version of the Issenheim altarpiece, in all its graphic, grisly detail. We've come a long way from the sanitized, dispassionate Jesus of so many Byzantine altar pieces (and we couldn't be further removed from the crucifixion scene in Monty Python's Life of Brian). ![]() It's very visceral and very difficult to watch. ![]() From Jesus' violent arrest to his flogging and crucifixion, almost every scene is marked by callous cruelty and bloodshed. Fisk saw a rough cut of Mel Gibson's "The Passion of the Christ" in November 2003.
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