I cried both times I saw it; the feeling was incredible. The church I go to is a protestant church, and we tend not to focus on the crucifixion enough (this is not to say that I think we should focus on it as much as Catholics do), so I was glad to get the perspective of it offered by this movie.
Although
The Passion is the goriest movie I have ever seen (with the awful, wish-I-hadn't-seen-it
Reservoir Dogs taking second place), its gore did not bother me at all. The reason, I think, is that in this movie the gore was not senseless as it is in most films, but instead a part of the most important event in existence. As I watched myself hammer the nails into Jesus (yes, Gibson said this, but I believe it, too), my heart was overwhelmed with Jesus' suffering and with my sin, and not so much with all of the blood and wounds.
You likely don't feel the same way, but
The Passion is by far the best movie I have ever seen. It's too bad that I didn't have a chance to see it a third time before the theater (I usually go to) here stopped showing it. Even though I didn't, though, it has made over $355 million and is ranked at number eight for all movies shown in the U.S. at
IMDb. Would I be stepping out of line to say that God has been blessing this movie (as well as those watching it)? I think not.
"Greetings from Belgium, the only country in Europe where the leading source of natural gas is the local dairy farm."