Monday, November 5, 2007
The Passion of the Christ
I think the only foreign film I've seen is "The Passion of the Christ." (Although we have a defective DVD player that messes with the sound, so we watch most movies with captions.) After the first few minutes, reading the captions became totally second nature. It was obviously an incredibly moving experience. I thought it was interesting to hear it in its original language, and relate it to the Bible. For instance, when Jesus was on the cross he said "Eloi, eloi, lama sabach tha ne." (I'm certain I slaughtered the spelling of that.) It was moving to hear the character who played Jesus say it in the original language because that was really what Jesus said! Of course, the captions did present a problem once I started bawling my eyes out. At that point, though, not many words were necessary to convey the emotion of the movie.
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