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Last Temptation Of Christ
(1988)
Directed by Martin Scorsese, written by Paul Schrader (based on novel by Nikos Kazantzakis)
The film gives us a human Jesus, but a Jesus of fallible, fallen humanity
— a Jesus who could not be God. This is evident, not just in the
sequences containing obvious blasphemy, such as the scene where Jesus
the carpenter explains that he makes crosses for the Romans and helps
crucify his fellow Jews so that God will hate him and leave him alone;
or even in the scenes depicting Jesus’ persistent doubts and confusion
about the nature of his identity and mission, or whether he is the Messiah
at all; but everywhere you turn in the film. The fact is, Willem Dafoe’s
Jesus has hardly a scene — hardly two lines of dialogue put together
— in which the falseness of the character is not the dominant fact
about him. Read the complete
essay by Steven D. Greydanus of Decent Films. This film was included in the 2004 Flickerings @ Cornerstone Festival.
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