| I will probably rent it once released on video or dvd. In my opinion the film would be very bland as it mainly focus on the suffering of Christ and "the terrible betrayal of the Jewish population" that released Christ to the Roman jurisdiction. There is no heroic tales to be told, only a two hour long suffering that might try stir up people's anger on the people "who really killed Jesus Christ."
I would like to bring comparison between this film and The Schindler's List. It is true that the Schindler's List wasn't entirely accurate to the historical facts, namely that Jews were not the only victims of the Nazi genocide and the Warsaw ghetto (the majority of the death camp victims were the Jews, next the slavs, and large numbers of Russian POWs since most of those death camps were in Poland), and that is the reason I am not against any historical accuracy of "Passion". The difference is at the portrayal of the Germans, the "oppressor" position is played with a human face. The Nazi stormtroopers were not all cold blooded killers, some of the Nazi Reich officers were not comfortable with the murders, and even the chief villan of the movie (and an villan no less, if not more in real life), Commandant Goeth, was portrayed as a real human being. He has his own secrets, his own feelings, and ultimatly, his very own and believable motives. There is no true villan and no true savior in the Schindler's List. There are only real characters with believable stories, no matter however heroic, courageous, twisted or repulsive they are.
Yet in "Passion", the entire Jewish population is branded together with a single face - a face of calculated cruelty, ignorance and betrayal. Schindler's List specificly focused on the diversity of the German occupation force, the Jewish policemen under Nazi control, and the diverse reaction and decisions made by the Jewish people. There is none of that in "Passion" but a unified, inhuman cruel population that was solely responsible on the death of Christ.
The pseudo-historic films should make as little generalization as possible. |