7. The Passion Of The Christ
This film hardly needs any sort of introduction. There is something about a religiously fundamental Christian, anti-Semite, Hollywood celebrity like Mel Gibson that makes people instantly aware of the horrors of this film. An incredibly glammed up, much-more-than-full-length piece of torture porn, the gratuitous Passion of The Christ has certainly sparked some contention from both the religious, and the secular alike. Fabricating an endorsement from the pope was just the beginning of issues people had with the film. Covering the last twelve hours of the life of Christ, it takes Gibson a quarter of that time to tell his story. It doesn’t help that the majority of that time is overwhelmingly violent, and almost solely based on the slow, excruciating torture of Jesus. To top those off, the film clearly, and seemingly purposefully portrays the Jews in a very negative light. So much so that hundreds of people came out of the woodwork to have a discourse about just how incredibly villainous the film made the Jews. With the already enormous Christian population in the world, no one of those who might be fundamentalist, need another excuse to hate the Jews for no good reason.
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