Critic's Notebook: Enraged Filmgoers: The Wages of Faith?

A.O. Scott has a great essay on the travails of those that have attempted to make films that address Christ, obviously tying into the upcoming film, Passion. He makes an interesting comparison to the cinema verite style of a Marxist filmmaker of the sixties and seventies, Pier Paolo Pasolini (and also to the pastoral style of Godard). I have to say I'm looking forward to Gibson's Passion. I think it's good to see stories told and re-told so that the notion of perspective and subjectivity is brought to the forefront.