Bingowings said:

Warbler said:

TheBoost said:

It's because of that history of violence that things like Vatican II or the American Council of Bishops are so defensive about the meaning of the Passion Play and so specific about how it is performed.

so let me get this straight, Vatican II and the American Council of Bishops have a problem with putting on the Passion play as exactly as written in the Bible itself? The Book they believe to be the word of God?

There are the words and there are ways of presenting them and they have problems with some of the presentation styles of the past which put all blame on the Jews and let the Romans and humanity in general off the hook.

well, I don't think the movie lets the Romans or humanity off. The movie depicts the Romans as the ones who actually carried out the execution. Sure some the Jews wanted, but that didn't mean the Romans had to comply. Also if look at shot very close to the end of the movie, it shows Mary holding Jesus looking into the camera. According the audio commentary, she is looking as if the say, "what was your part in this?" The movie multiple times, indicates that Christ in dying for the sins of everyone. Christ stops and says as much to his mother in one scene.

Maybe the depiction of Pilate in the movie isn't much like the Pilate in real life, but it is the way the Bible depicts him.

I guess what I'm saying is this, if Vatican II and the American council of Bishops really has a problem with the way the movie depicts the Jews, they should press for the removal of the parts of the Bible that the depictions come from. Its seem hypocritical to me to say "you can't use Matthew 27:25 and John 19:11 in your movie, but we're going to keep them in our Bible and call them the word of God"