The Passion of the Christ, the Resurrection

At SaLT group tonight some discussion turned toward our thoughts on viewing the Passion of the Christ. While one can pick out certain details that aren't in scripture and various other nit-picky things about the film, I don't think anything outweighs the goodness of the movie. One that always gets me is when the comment is made about the resurrection. "I would've like to see more made of the resurrection."



What more of the resurrection do people want? Did they want to see Christ stand up and do jumping jacks? with a bright white halo surrounding him? and watch Him ascend to heaven?



He was dead. Then He wasn't. That's the resurrection!



I also had something hit me that hadn't before about the film. Amazing that weeks later after seeing it, twice, that I can still think about it and ponder. Katie said at SaLT that one of the poignant things about the film was how Jesus was always getting back up after having been knocked down. That He embraced the cross. Everytime He was knocked down, He was able to gather enough strength to get back up and on with His mission. The people that were beating Him and knocking Him down, were His motivation for getting back up. It was brutal to watch and unimaginable to have endured.



This is the thing that stuck me tonight. The film did portray Christ getting back up. Right until the very end of the movie. He got back up.



Maybe that was the point of the brevity of the resurrection scene. All we needed to see is that He got back up.