"; if(is_file("header.php")) include "header.php"; else include "../header.php"; ?>

Superb acting, directing, and heart-wrenching scenes... I've seen this movie so many times that I've lost count. In a word, it's magnificent. The party at Matthew's home and Jesus' telling of the story of the Prodigal Son -- bringing Peter and Matthew to embrace each other after several scenes of pent-up anger to a loving conclusion was but one of several *PRICELESS* scenes that every human being should see. When the men who came to stone the adultress, and Christ just calmly writes in the dust while they press their case, well, my breath was taken away with how well this scene was handled. I've never seen another movie capture the very essense of guilt better than this one. After he spoke his words of "let he among you who is without sin cast the first stone" ... followed by the incredible direction of the camera moving over to see the diciple's eyes rise up and stare down the now guilt-ridden men, well, ... I simply can't see how anyone cannot worship this man as THE Son of God. When Christ was suffering on the cross, seeing the scene with Laurence Olivier as Nicodemus reading from the scroll of Isaiah 53, "He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows, and familiar with suffering. Like one from whom men hide their faces he was despised, and we esteemed him not. Surely he took up our infirmities and carried our sorrows, yet we considered him stricken by God, smitten by him, and afflicted. But he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was upon him, and by his wounds we are healed. ... Born Again!" was again, Priceless and Breathtaking! What a great epiphany that must have been for him to see Prophecy being fulfilled so dramatically! Finally, the scene of Olivia Hussey as Mary holding her son and crying out loud after his body was taken down off the cross was heart-wrenching and the most realistic presentation of "The Pieta" scene originally made famous by Michelangelo. See the movie ... experience it ... then seek to know the man Jesus. I noticed that someone wrote in an earlier review that this was all mythology. I respectfully disagree with that view. My reasoning is the same as that of one of the world's greatest Mathematicians. What would he think of me if I wrote the following about myself... "500 years from now, in the year 2505, my words will be spoken and published throughout the entire world. Every hour of every day in every nation of the world, my words will be quoted without end." What would you think of me after hearing me say something like that? Think about it. While thinking about it, consider the following... "Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away." - Jesus (Matthew 24:35, Mark 13:31, Luke 21:33) "And the gospel must first be published among all nations." - Jesus (Mark 13:10) "And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come." - Jesus (Matthew 24:14) "Verily I say unto you, Wheresoever this gospel shall be preached in the whole world, there shall also this, that this woman hath done, be told for a memorial of her." - Jesus (Matthew 26:13, Mark 14:9) Why not accept the wisdom of what one of the world's greatest Mathematicians had to say on the subject... "When I see the blindness and the wretchedness of man, when I regard the whole silent universe and man without light, left to himself and, as it were, lost in this corner of the universe, without knowing who has put him there, what he has come to do, what will become of him at death, and incapable of all knowledge, I become terrified, like a man who should be carried in his sleep to a dreadful desert island and should awake without knowing where he is and without means of escape. And thereupon I wonder how people in a condition so wretched do not fall into dispair. I see other persons around me of a like nature. I ask them if they are better informed than I am. They tell me that they are not. And thereupon these wretched and lost beings, having looked around them and seen some pleasing objects, have given and attached themselves to them. For my own part, I have not been able to attach myself to them, and, considering how strongly it appears that there is something else than what I see, I have examined whether this God has not left some sign of himself. I see many contradictory religions, and consequently all false save one. Each wants to be believed on it's own authority, and threatens unbelievers. I do not therefore believe them. Every one can say this; every one can call himself a prophet. But I see that Christian religion wherein prophecies are fulfilled; and that is what every one cannot do." -- Blaise Pascal, note #693 in section XI of Pensees', which I copied from the "Great Books of the Western World" There are many other fulfilled prophecies that I can refer to, but I think "Christ's Words" are a sufficiently amazing thing to ponder as one seeks TRUTH in this world.