In people's opinion, `The Passion of the Christ' is the best movie ever made. Mel Gibson has sculpted a masterpiece equivalent with any work of Rodin, Michelangelo or da Vinci.

Even absent from the obvious spiritual implications of the story; this film is exquisite. With masterful cinematography, art direction, costuming, and make up, the viewer is transported to the time of Christ. Gibson captures the pain, the misery, the hate while buffering it with pity, shame, and, above all, Love. Even if you do not believe in the life changing message of the carpenter from Nazareth, you will know his heart, his spirit, his humanity.

People have never experienced a movie to this degree. Using cinema to bewitch the eyes and the ears, you are there in the crowd with its chaos, confusion, filth, and loathing. Like most Americans in this generation, People have witnessed much bloodshed in the name of entertainment. Today everybody in the audience, seemingly felt it. Audiences hands and feet were pierced. Audience felt Mary's tears, Peter's shame, Judas' madness. As surely as it was happening to the man of sorrows: so was it happening to people themselves. People are grateful that the director chose to present this without the use of English. Hearing these words uttered in the original tongue contributes to the stark realism resulting in a piece that is riveting and meditative.