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I remember when the Film came out, very controversial, theaters in my area wouldn't show it. I saw the large ads in the New York Post, I cut them out for reference to do drawings from. Even then I thought Willem DaFoe & Martin Scorsese had accomplished a goal. I saw the stills & for a split second, I thought I was actually looking at the Christ. According to his Church, the A
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"Last Temptation of Christ." It was unconventional, contraversial, and very compelling. It presents divinity as a state reached after great effort and sacrifice (which makes the sacrifice on the cross more meaningful). It is not a movie for the fainthearted and many conventional Christian notions are challenged, but I found myself thinking this must have been what Christ's struggle was like. We have seen the Hollywood glitz films about Jesus, most of them very reverent and well done, but "Last Temptation" shows us the down to earth struggle for the salvation of mankind.
A rare chance to view this oft forgotten Scorsesi masterpiece..cinematic theatre.
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