On recommendation from my brother, I watched Pier Paulo Pasolini's film The Gospel According to St Matthew over the Easter Weekend... all the blood, gore and aramaic in the Passion of the Christ didn't really appeal! Rather than focusing on Jesus' death, the emphasis is on Jesus' life and teaching, portraying him as a political radical who was intent on challenging authority. Pasolini I don't think was a Christian although he was a communist and admitted after making the film, that this 1964 interpretation reflected his own politics. I have always viewed Jesus as a social activist and it was a delight to watch a film that brought out the revolutionary nature of Jesus' words and actions. But I did feel that Pasolini's Jesus is a bit of an enigma, always entrancing but rarely relational. And he barely smiles the whole way through the film! But it is beautiful - go watch and see what you think!
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