evan1975 said:
I'm not a religious person, so religious allegories and symbolism mean nothing to me.
In film class, a teacher would point out during a movie, "Note the Christ-like imagery," and I would just shrug while teacher oohed and ahhed.
It just seems lazy to me; a crutch. A director's story isn't strong enough on its own, so let's invoke Jesus. That makes it deep.
If I wanted to watch a movie about Jesus, I'd watch Passion of the Christ or something.
I hope this post doesn't offend anyone; it's not intended as such.
What if the allusions had been to ancient myths or some other religion?