Mish-Mash-Mosh
Jun. 5th, 2005 05:18 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
peterbirksI watched The Passion Of The Christ yesterday. It's a powerful film and I admire Mel Gibson for his commitment to it, despite my own atheism and general secular nature. The decision to film it in Aramaic, using English subtitles, was spot on. The one thing that tends to hamper a sense of authenticity in movies such as this - shattering the suspension of disbelief - is invariably a dodgy accent appearing somewhere, or an anachronism of the vocabulary.
The only thing that disappointed me was the lack of an actors' or director's commentary on the DVD. :-) "Ah yes, Jim, this was where the good Roman accidentally smacked the nail into your wrist rather than your hand, causing multiple haemorrhaging..." ... "That's right Mel. And my it was hot that day. I tell you, you gotta admire that Jesus guy for what he went through up on that crucifix thing".
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The St Martins Fine Art Graduate exhibition begins Saturday 18th June at 12 noon until 4pm. It then runs the following week through to Thursday from 12 noon until 8pm, and then on Friday from 12 noon to 4pm.
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The "Beethoven Week" has started on Radio 3. A cracking version of the Fifth Symphony from 1962 at lunchtime, although I retain an emotional preference for the Klemperer style. After that, all of the others feel a bit rushed! The second movement, in particular, I think should be lingered over like a fine port. So many conductors (and Rattle is a prime criminal here) seem to rush through it so that they can get to the good bits in the third movement.
I really ought to drive up to Gutshot and put my money down for the William Hill freeze-out. But do I really want to play, despite the overlay? Live tournaments are not really my forte, despite a reasonable performance over the past couple of years. I find them very tiring and straining. Not a good idea when I have to produce a newsletter the following day.
The only thing that disappointed me was the lack of an actors' or director's commentary on the DVD. :-) "Ah yes, Jim, this was where the good Roman accidentally smacked the nail into your wrist rather than your hand, causing multiple haemorrhaging..." ... "That's right Mel. And my it was hot that day. I tell you, you gotta admire that Jesus guy for what he went through up on that crucifix thing".
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The St Martins Fine Art Graduate exhibition begins Saturday 18th June at 12 noon until 4pm. It then runs the following week through to Thursday from 12 noon until 8pm, and then on Friday from 12 noon to 4pm.
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The "Beethoven Week" has started on Radio 3. A cracking version of the Fifth Symphony from 1962 at lunchtime, although I retain an emotional preference for the Klemperer style. After that, all of the others feel a bit rushed! The second movement, in particular, I think should be lingered over like a fine port. So many conductors (and Rattle is a prime criminal here) seem to rush through it so that they can get to the good bits in the third movement.
I really ought to drive up to Gutshot and put my money down for the William Hill freeze-out. But do I really want to play, despite the overlay? Live tournaments are not really my forte, despite a reasonable performance over the past couple of years. I find them very tiring and straining. Not a good idea when I have to produce a newsletter the following day.
Re: Other God Movies (Geoff C)
Date: 2005-06-06 10:51 am (UTC)Knowing something is different to seeing it (even if what you're seeing is a fictional representation and for most people it's a more emotional experience than being aware of reading it in a newspaper.
But then your brain isn't wired the same way as mere mortals. I can remember arguing with you at Turney Road about watching American Footy on C4 on Sundays and how it was important not to know the result in order to maximise ones enjoyment. You didn't care and were quite prepared to trawl newspaper small print to find out the results from the previous weekend. We all tried to avoid knowing.
So maybe for you the facts/knowledge of something matters more than the representation of it.
Re: Other God Movies (Geoff C)
Date: 2005-06-07 12:43 am (UTC)DY
P.S. For a list of historians of the age who make no mention of Jesus, see the bottom of this page:
http://www.atheists.org/christianity/didjesusexist.html
From Geoff C
Date: 2005-06-07 07:57 am (UTC)Did Jesus exist. Well to add to the article you mentioned I could point you to similar tracts from Christian sources that prove to quite similar levels that Jesus did exist. But I'd have to be bothered and I'm not because I've come to the conclusion that It Doesn't Matter. If Christians want to believe in the existence of Jesus and in his divinity, then yay, good luck to them. If it makes them better human beings who've learned the lesson that the world does not revolve around themselves but around others, then it doesn't matter if it's complete bollocks.
Same goes for the majority of the dishes on the carte du jour of faiths in the modern era. Faith only becomes a problem when it feels it has to tread on other people and their beliefs.
So now, did Jesus exist? IMHO yes, but I could be wrong. Was he divine? IMHO no, but I could be wrong. The only people to distrust are those who are so convinced they are right that they force their answers on the rest of us.