Movie Weekend Review

I saw an interesting group of movies this weekend!
The first being "The Secret Window."
I recommend only REAL Johnny Depp fans see this, as that, for a Steven King story, it leaves little to be surprised about & I have to say it only makes a B+ on my list.
The next movie is an A++!
"Mystic River!" Way to go Clint! You did yourself proud!
No question that Sean & Tim both earned
every ounce of the Oscar gold for their performances, considering Clint won't take more
than 2-3 takes per shot you know they had to get it right & quick to earn the Oscar on an Eastwood film!
The last weekend movie on my list is
"The Passion of the Christ."
You have to be slightly sadistic to enjoy this movie!
I can see the emphasis on Catholic belief & of course the filmmaker, director is Catholic.
No one relishes pain & there is no question you are left with the pain of the Christian Messiah.
Like most movies, of this topic, the history of the time is ignored.
This period of time, in history, was engulfed with lunatics posing as the Messiah. Jewish Prophets had long claimed this particular period to be the possible period for the Messiah.
There had been many calling themselves the Messiah & even Monty Python took this to a greater height in their motion picture "The Life of Brain."
There was, literally, a Messiah on every street corner at this time, so why would the Jews believe in this particular one, especially since he came from a southern Provence of Nazareth which to them was full of backward thinking folk!
They had already suffered after believing in another who claimed to be their messiah.
As stated in "A History of The Jews"
by Paul Johnson 1987 pg. 141~
"Simon bar Kokhba or Kosiva is one of the most enigmatic personalities in Jewish history,...Simon did make messianic claims and his name Kokhba or 'star' referred to the prophecy in Numbers 'there shall come a star out of Jacob and a scepter shall rise out of Israel, and shall smite the corners of Moab and destroy all the children of Sheth.' A rabbinic source says he was recognized as Messiah by the greatest scholar of the age, rabbi Akiva ben Joseph (c. 50-135 A.D.)"
All the movie left me with was the surprise of maybe the first Chiropractor to be recognized in film credits!
Let's hear it for Kevin Michaels!