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The Last Temptation of Christ - Criterion Collection Reviews
A masterpiece
This film from Martin Scorsese surpasses all other cinematic re-tellings of Christ's life. To discuss this movie, however, one can't avoid the question of the controversy that to this day surrounds it. Fundamentalist Christians deemed the film blasphemous before they even saw it, due to its portrayal of Jesus as equally God and man. This idea, though, is firmly placed within the Bible and creates a three-dimensional character out of Jesus (as opposed to the two-dimensional Jesus in The Passion of the Christ). Here, Jesus is wholly divine and wholly man, confused and all-knowing. He is the ultimate paradox. Jesus's conquering of temptation and his triumph is inspiring. While Scorsese worked under a very limited budget (and it is obvious in many instances), the film is still a masterpiece, thanks in no small part to Peter Gabriel's mesmerizing score. This is one of Scorsese's absolute best and one of the best films of the 1980s.
There Is Purpose...
This film has been pivotal in raising questions and provoking thought, unfortunately somewhere along the way the point was missed. Overly sensitive "christians" have been opposed to anything to that challenges their own personal perception of who they think Christ was while forgetting entirely that he was one hundred percent man in addition to being one hundred percent divine. Even Scorsese himself has been quoted as saying that he believes "Jesus is divine." This is his way of trying to reconcile the two.
The film is flawed biblically but it makes no effort to try and follow the Gospels like a script, more a guideline, keep that in mind when watching. The filming is great, the music fits, and Willem Dafoe presents his version of Jesus with heart.
It is too bad that the focus has been on the controversy surrounding the film rather than the point of the whole story. There is no doubt in my mind that this is a film written and made by men who desperately tried to acknowledge the sacrifice that Christ made on our behalf.
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