I went to see 'Risen", directed by Kevin Reynolds.
It is the fictional story of the spiritual resurrection of Clavius,
a Roman centurion whose soul is fried from the brutality of his
job. Pilate gives him the task of
finding the body of Jesus before
the
disciples hide it and declare that Christ has risen from
the dead.
You know how it goes.
If you don't, read Matthew 27 & 28 or Luke 24.
The movie was mildly entertaining. The landscape (somewhere in
Spain) was spectacularly barren - meant to look as
barren as the
soul of Clavius I suppose.
The problem is that there are no women in the movie,
just a tiny
role for Mary Magdalene
- looking far more dewy than one might
suppose a hooker of her time and place would have looked.
It is 2016.
That no woman thing looked antiquated.
People hoping to find the Divine Feminine within Christianity
shouldn't bother spending money or time on this movie.
The rest of you can go for a laugh.
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I liked the National Post's review -- said they should have called this movie Judea CSI, lol! After pointing out that Clavius gets all overcome by belief at the end, the reviewer then casually mentions the hilarious scene in the Coen Brothers' current release "Hey Caesar" where the Roman centurian George Clooney pulls all these spectacularly inadequate faces trying to convey awe and reverence at meeting Jesus and failing miserably.
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DeleteWell this is not good. I expected more from this. I think we'll watch it at home some day...out of curiosity. No point throwing away good money!
ReplyDeleteCosts an arm & a leg now to go to the movies so that is a good idea.!
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