I'm a good Jewish woman, and, like most of my breed, have long harbored a secret crush on Christ.
He was hot, you know. If iconography through the ages is any indication. Physically hot, all that hiking around the desert: tan, lean. Spiritual yet manly. Well-spoken (though we don't really know that for sure, do we). Eternally 33 years old, like Edward Cullen but with more depth and less biting. Probably smelled of patchouli oil. Or myrrh. He was a god in the lowercase lay sense of the word.
So I finally had a chance to view Mel Gibson's "The Passion of the Christ" last night. I'd call the film a depraved perversion, but it would be like pointing out that my caramel gelato was delicious. So obvious that it should not need saying.
And yet...
So many people were thrown into a state of frenzied excitement by that movie. Which is fine, really it is, but if you were excited by it, please own up to your own base nature and recognize that the film was a piece of hardcore s/m b&d porn. Slow-motion homoerotic beatings, moans of agony/ecstasy, extremely good-looking women kneeling in pools of bodily fluid. I swear I saw Jesus giving the Marys (including his own mother) an erotic come-hither look through his mutilated eyelids.
The money shot was surely Mary, kissing Jesus' bloody feet, and coming away with smeared mouth, a weird half-smile on her face. Come ON. That obscene image alone is worth the price of admission. That is, if you are a complete Godless pervert.
So yeah. I could sit here and deconstruct all day, but in the end it boils down to this:
Gibson's Christ was a very hot sexual victim. He wore his gore well. He took it all, deep.
But in the end, he gave the smirk of the vindicated masochist and topped, in the biggest and most epic way possible, from the bottom.
p.s. I know I am YEARS late to this party, but what the hell.
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I haven't seen it. After reading your comments, and not being partial to homoerotic beatings or women kneeling in bodily fluid, I shall keep well away from it....
great post and even better comments, sugar! i'll have to come back later with my pagan (according to the church) self! xoxoxoxo
p.s. i missed the movie, too, but then, i did do 12 years in catholic schools. ;)
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