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Saw it yesterday. Having trouble writing a review for it. So ill keep it short.
It was a good film. Yet it was missing something, or perhaps I was missing something. I could not look at it in context because frankly the context is all messed up in the first place. Out of context is where it works best, it’s a true demonstration of the brutality that human beings are capable of delivering upon one another. The little excerpts of wisdom that were thrown into the movie seemed barely there against the foreground of blood and pain. Perhaps this is why I though the movie was good. It seemed honest. It told you: this is what humanity is capable off.
As for the anti-Semitic undertones, there were none. At least not to me, though other people look though different eyes. I saw the Jewish people being hated by the Romans. I saw priest who were afraid of loosing their power condemning a man to death. That was the lesson wasn’t it - that even your holy men can be evil. Looking at those rabbi I could not help but see their resemblance to our modern day holy men especially people like Cardinal Bernard Law.
I believe the film is worth seeing. When you sit there in the theater I suggest that you open yourself up to its spectacle. Don’t try to mute what you see by your faith or your logic or that thick skin that we have all developed thanks to our media. Take it all in and see that dark side of humanity. It's a shock but though pain we learn.
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