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Pastimes : Mel Gibson's "The Passion of the Christ" -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: redfish who wrote (191)	3/2/2004 2:36:28 PM
From: redfish	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 425

Now from the perspective of the audience, and the question of what movie they create (as opposed to the movie Gibson intended to create), I think there are four primary interpretive communities. (1) Christian (2) Jewish (3) Secular humanist types (4) Muslim Each of these communities will watch the same images and create dramatically different stories out of those images. For example, in Islam, Jesus is regarded as a prophet but not as the final prophet or the messiah. So, it is too be expected that the Muslims, while viewing the images, will create a story of a prophet being tortured and murdered at the instigation of the Jewish community. As they do not see the images through the prism of self-sacrifice, forgiveness, redemption and salvation, to them it will the story of a murder. With respect to the Muslim community, I think the fears are well justified and that the movie may be pointed to as reinforcing the hatred that Muslims feel toward Jews.