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Originally Posted by Despare
I don't want to debate it but what do you mean here? It all (for the most part) happened. A man who people called Jesus was beaten and crucified. If nothing else it depicts a crucifixion (the word excruciating was invented to describe the pain) of the most violent. Now, believing that he was a savior is your business but the physical depiction was done very well.
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It's not that I don't believe that there was a man named Jesus (or Joshua bar Joseph, if you will) that lived. Nor do I have a problem believing that he was crucified. The Roman historian Tacitus states as much, and so does a Jewsih historian or two (although I believe that they say he was the bastard son of a Roman soldier named Panther).
I just have a problem with people telling me I
NEED to see this movie, and so do their small children, because that's the way it really happened. Scourging, being made to drag the cross, and whatever else that isn't historically referenced by any other place than the bible, well, it's not my place to say it's fiction. I'm just saying that the idea of telling people to watch it simply because "That's the way it really happened" irritates me. Especially when they're forcing their young children to watch it. That's the reason I put in the Caligula reference. That may or may not have been how it really happened, but woul you suggest to everyone that they need to watch it just because of that reason? I don't think hardcore scenes of Roman sex orgies need to be viewed by everyone because they're historically accurate.
Just my view of the subject matter.