{"id":1394,"date":"2004-02-24T23:16:56","date_gmt":"2004-02-25T03:16:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/nateptest\/2004\/02\/24\/gibsons-version-of-the-passion\/"},"modified":"2004-02-24T23:16:56","modified_gmt":"2004-02-25T03:16:56","slug":"gibsons-version-of-the-passion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/2004\/02\/24\/gibsons-version-of-the-passion\/","title":{"rendered":"Gibson&#8217;s version of the Passion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a265'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>From the <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Times<\/span>&#8216; review of the film:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\nWhat makes the movie so grim and ugly is Mr. Gibson&#8217;s inability to<br \/>\nthink beyond the conventional logic of movie narrative. In most movies<br \/>\n&#x2014; certainly in most movies directed by or starring Mr. Gibson &#x2014;<br \/>\nviolence against the innocent demands righteous vengeance in the third<br \/>\nact, an expectation that Mr. Gibson in this case whips up and leaves<br \/>\nunsatisfied.<\/p>\n<p>On its own, apart from whatever beliefs a viewer might bring to it,<br \/>\n&#8220;The Passion of the Christ&#8221; never provides a clear sense of what all of<br \/>\nthis bloodshed was for, an inconclusiveness that is Mr. Gibson&#8217;s most<br \/>\nserious artistic failure. The Gospels, at least in some<br \/>\ninterpretations, suggest that the story ends in forgiveness. But such<br \/>\nan ending seems beyond Mr. Gibson&#8217;s imaginative capacities. Perhaps he<br \/>\nsuspects that his public prefers terror, fury and gore.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\nI <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">do <\/span>plan to see the film,<br \/>\nwith a monk I know.&nbsp; But not tomorrow.&nbsp; I don&#8217;t know about<br \/>\nMel Gibson, but tomorrow is a holy day of obligation, and I will be in<br \/>\nchurch, not at the movies&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Times&#8216; review of the film: What makes the movie so grim and ugly is Mr. Gibson&#8217;s inability to think beyond the conventional logic of movie narrative. In most movies &#x2014; certainly in most movies directed by or starring Mr. Gibson &#x2014; violence against the innocent demands righteous vengeance in the third act, an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":709,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rayleejun"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5G3PH-mu","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/709"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1394\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}