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Question: 1.The Passion of the Christ
2.A Clockwork Orange
I haven't seen them, and I love movies (seeing over a thousand of them). Them about them, and how they affected you and should I see them or not.
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Answers: 1.The Passion of the Christ
2.A Clockwork Orange
I haven't seen them, and I love movies (seeing over a thousand of them). Them about them, and how they affected you and should I see them or not.
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1. I saw the Passion in the theater with 2 other Catholic friends. Us two girls had pretty much watched the floor for nearly 80% of the movie. It was very graphic, very realistic, and very upsetting -- very much because it made a major event of what our faith is based on come to life before our eyes, as if we were there, witnesses to this horrible thing that happened to Jesus, and the miracles that came about, his prophecies that also came about.
I can see the purpose of this movie -- to bring to life what people have only talked or written about, to respect what we believed to have happened, what Jesus has done for people.
That's on one hand. On the other, I had hoped there would be balance brought by also showing more of what he did during his life -- the teachings, the healings, and so forth.
It was so disturbing for me that once was enough for me to see, I couldn't bare to watch it again.
I do think that it's up to you to watch this, whatever faith you may follow, as long as you are prepared for what the focus is on and what its purpose is. I must admit as dark and scary as it was, it was done well. It's just a lot to stomach, so keep that in mind.
2. I saw Clockwork Orange by chance in a small theater at a midnight showing during college. I was not prepared at all, I had never heard of it before. This was another very disturbing story. It's very confusing, too. As a student of art at the time, I saw it as a work of art, a strange statement of mixing violence and punishment and chaos and order set to Beethoven.
I never watched it again, and I don't plan on it. All I got out of it was that it was disgustingly strange and that I can say, yeah, I saw that one. Other than that, I'd rather live without have seeing it to be honest. I don't recommend this one, I really don't know what anyone gets out of it. It's like one of those art pieces hanging in a gallery with splattered paint and garbage and blood all over a canvas, and you're wondering why it's worth a million dollars.
"A Clockwork Orange" is one of Kubrick's best film. The violence pales in comparison to today's standards, frankly, but is perhaps all the more shocking for McDowell's unflinching performance. If you dig Kubrick - super-stylized and precise filmmaking, amazing camera work, yet strangely emotionally distant - then you should absolutely see it. And, if you love movies, you should also see it - it's a reference point for many other films, and it is a good film.
I did not see "The Passion of the Christ" because watching someone get flayed in Aramaic is not my idea of a fun night at the movies.
Haven't seen the passion but saw clockwork a while back.
Clockwork is about a futuristic gang member that is caught and sentenced to undergo a psychological conditioning that is brutal and disturbing to watch. The film continues by following him upon his release where he re-encounters his victims that then use his condition against him and is in turn victimized.
The moral I got was that while we may abhor this man we are not fit to fix him. In the attempt we become as bad as he ever was.
I would say see it if you are mentally stable. It's a psychothriller on a scale with "Seven" or "Hanibal"