Mariaelena

Listen, Happy, whether Celentano is female or male doesn't matter to me at all. I only said that their personality and way of presenting themselves were chosen because they were suitable for portraying Satan, and that's it, period. Go read what I wrote about the male-female figure or the fact that Satan has no sex and actually has a female appearance with a male voice, but whatever, it's pointless to continue; it's like swimming upstream.

Happy, I tried to make you understand how I feel about this film, and I think I succeeded, along with others. You have your ideas and I, along with others and (the director), have ours. Anyway, Kosmo pointed out the right page where you can find the explanation, in professional terms, that I was writing for you. Check it out, there are also images from the film. I even printed it out and read it all thoroughly; time provides good advice, and then you can decide.

Yes, excellent link really, what beautiful places......

Happy but smile a little... are you happy, Kosmo? Celentano is a lesbian, and if you see her in person, she nails you, not for her beauty but for that amazing gaze she has.

But in fact, I didn’t say that these are my ideas (I wouldn’t be capable of that at this level), but I wrote that since I really like the movie, I followed in detail the aspects that Mel wanted to express in the film and what is conveyed in the film, and there’s so much to read and follow...

Several times in the film, we see how Jesus has a strong charismatic impact on the people who encounter Him for the first time: Malcus, Claudia, Pilate, Herod's African courtier, and later Abenader, Cassius, Simon of Cyrene, Veronica, the good thief, even Barabbas, who is depicted as rather inhuman, seems for a moment struck and hesitant when he looks at Jesus. Everyone who looked at Judas, Peter, His Mother, Mary Magdalene, the Cyrenian, Veronica, the Roman soldier; everyone was captivated, taken, loved to the core. And Mel recognized that gaze. He had seen it before and now sees it, somehow, in the eyes of his friends.

Now I have to work, but later I'll come back and continue...

The truth... what is truth? Pilate's sequence about truth is taken from John. "Quid est veritas?" Those very words, anagrammed, contain the answer: "Est vir qui adest" (it is the man who stands before you). Augustine of Hippo noticed this three centuries later. The trembling servant.

The Resurrection, the event has no witnesses, because one must believe in the resurrection driven solely by Faith—the resurrection is presented in a very discreet manner, according to the Johannine model of the wrinkled shroud. The figure of Jesus stands upright is also a Johannine element. However, the presence of Jesus in the tomb, no longer lying down but standing, does not correspond to any Gospel text because Jesus does not appear in the tomb, where there are one or two angels as witnesses. He only appears outside the tomb. The director made this choice: the stone rolls away, light enters, and then the figure of the living Jesus. Mel resolved the problem this way, because depicting the resurrection is difficult. It is easier to narrate step by step the passion, the death, and all the sequences of torture than to convey the reality of the resurrection, which cannot be experienced with the eyes, but only through faith. The focal point of the film consists of the cross and the resurrection of Jesus, in which God’s salvific plan is accomplished once and for all. The body is completely healed except for the holes of the nails. (What does it mean?) Inside the tomb, surrounded by rock walls. One can hear the sound of stone shifting, a light is seen, the burial cloths collapse, emptied from within (this is exactly what the Greek verb in the Gospels indicates: this is why the first ones to arrive at the tomb were astonished) Jesus in His body, risen, strong and beautiful, with hands pierced by nails and the face of one returning from a long journey.

Happy, rephrase the question, you say so many things, what I think about the film travels in line with how Mel wanted and envisioned it, and I'm trying to explain that. Beautiful is the opening phrase quoting Isaiah 53 - 700 B.C. "He was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; by his wounds we are healed." In the scene of the olive trees in Gethsemane, the moon and its light symbolize the Father, the sins of man are symbolized by the clouds, which, by obscuring the divine light, throw him into despair, making him fall to the ground before rising again and crushing the serpent.