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i live in a very secular area, and so i never really saw this as a religious film. it's about a guy, and about relentless physical pain. i didn't have any problem with the gore, i was expecting to be more shocked than i was. i didn't have any problem with this being a non-traditional film, in fact that's a good thing. if you voted .5 because you wanted a standard 3 act story, that's fine, but it didn't bother me. i agree that the music could have been better, and the lighting was horribly meladramatic, but other than that, it's not a terribly flawed film. on the plus side, i've always been a big Jim Cazeviel fan, and i hope this film doesnt gently caress up his career (although he is getting weirder looking and might end up pulling a malcolm mcdowel or jon voight). also, it's a fascinating bit of historical filmmaking. i really loved the authenticity, the dusty, spare camera shots, the archaic languages. i won't ever watch it again, and the more i think about it, the more i realise that some parts were tv-movie-of-the-week-ish. mary and the roman soldiers come to mind. that would bother me on a re-viewing, but they didn't the first time. still, it was everything it needed to be. 3.5/5
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