Risen (2016)
Like what my friend says, it is about love and faith. Faith gives us that tuft of hope when the going gets tough and the end seems hopeless. The fight would go on by offloading some of the pressures to an overseeing Being, while Man can continue doing what he does best. When anxiety builds up and all odds are stacked against him in an unfair distribution, Man starts asking what the meaning of life is all about. What he gets is a muted, deafening, stony impassive silence. When he thinks the Power above would be just and equal in his distribution of comfort and happiness, what he sees are random occurrences and chaos.
Nonbelievers accuse believers who surrender themselves to outlets like self-indulgences and religion as quickly laid out answers to the questions of life as committing philosophical suicide. He accepts the absurdity of our dull and futile lives by actually killing off our ability to inquire and reason. He seems to be taking the easy way out without really giving a fight.
The believers would argue that life is too complicated to be understood by our feeble mind. That life is how it is and it is all a question of faith and conviction.
This film, viewed from the point of a Roman soldier, Clavius, who is summoned by the Judean prefect, Pontius Pilate, to investigate the rumour which was rising in Jerusalem. After Jesus was crucified (referred to as Yeshua of Nazarene), his followers talk of his resurrection and a possible rebellion. This would give a bad image to Pilate since the Roman Emperor Tiberius Caesar is due for a visit. Clavius, the faithful and reliable soldier, has to investigate the disappearance of Yeshua's body. The movie narrates his subsequent discovery and later amazement of Yeshua's healing powers and ascension to the Heavens.
Unlike 'Passion of Christ' which relied on the gore factor as their selling point, this down-to-earth flick concentrates on character building and the telling the political manoeuvring that occurred during the last few days of the Son of God on Earth.
Like what my friend says, it is about love and faith. Faith gives us that tuft of hope when the going gets tough and the end seems hopeless. The fight would go on by offloading some of the pressures to an overseeing Being, while Man can continue doing what he does best. When anxiety builds up and all odds are stacked against him in an unfair distribution, Man starts asking what the meaning of life is all about. What he gets is a muted, deafening, stony impassive silence. When he thinks the Power above would be just and equal in his distribution of comfort and happiness, what he sees are random occurrences and chaos.
Nonbelievers accuse believers who surrender themselves to outlets like self-indulgences and religion as quickly laid out answers to the questions of life as committing philosophical suicide. He accepts the absurdity of our dull and futile lives by actually killing off our ability to inquire and reason. He seems to be taking the easy way out without really giving a fight.
The believers would argue that life is too complicated to be understood by our feeble mind. That life is how it is and it is all a question of faith and conviction.
This film, viewed from the point of a Roman soldier, Clavius, who is summoned by the Judean prefect, Pontius Pilate, to investigate the rumour which was rising in Jerusalem. After Jesus was crucified (referred to as Yeshua of Nazarene), his followers talk of his resurrection and a possible rebellion. This would give a bad image to Pilate since the Roman Emperor Tiberius Caesar is due for a visit. Clavius, the faithful and reliable soldier, has to investigate the disappearance of Yeshua's body. The movie narrates his subsequent discovery and later amazement of Yeshua's healing powers and ascension to the Heavens.
Unlike 'Passion of Christ' which relied on the gore factor as their selling point, this down-to-earth flick concentrates on character building and the telling the political manoeuvring that occurred during the last few days of the Son of God on Earth.
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