The Passion of the Christ evaluation

The sounds characterized in the movie, The Passion of the Christ, are used to create a plot of terrifying pain and suffering. In the opening scenes we see money, but we hear it as well,as Judas betrays Jesus by giving up his position. This movie refers and is a good example of Chapter eight in our textbook, Sound Effects and Dialogue.
With the movie acted out in Latin, you would think one could only understand the movie if he or she were reading the subtitles-ha-quite the contrary in this case. If there were no subtitles one would easily be able to understand the movie's pace, cause climax and all the other elements of an incredible and incredibly told story.

What have you in interest to such a film in which one cannot understand the language being used? For those who would rather experience a film and its story by engaging other senses than sight alone, The Passion.. is one which envelopes one with its use of sound and intensely expressed dialogue. When I watched this movie, I thought of experiencing the opera and how it so related to relying upon other senses to understand the story being told. I might add, that not only did this movie and the opera tell a story, it evoked my innermost emotion and sensitivity towards suffering. Never has a movie touched me so deeply than did this one, crying like the sobbing teenage girl who just lost her lifelong canine companion to cancer, her best friend and only being who was told every secret she had without casting judgement. I felt the emotion of our Christ in both his physical pain and his mental pain, in writhing, sobbing, whimpering agony, the visible sounds.

The sounds of insanity give us an idea of what Judas is experiencing in his torment of what he has done to the saviour. It is the silence from the mocking boys chasing him out of town which brings attention to the dead lamb, a symbol of his guilt in the undeniable slaughtering about to happen to Jesus Christ. These sounds give us a sense of texture. The sounds of the crowds also give us an idea of the timeperiod in the last 12 days of Jesus' life. These period piecing sounds tell us of how the government deals with matters of social dilemna, through the reaction of the crowd.

Throughout this film the use of sound has depicted an idea to not only see with our eyes, but listen from the heart as it is the profound effect this film intended for the viewer. For instance, when we see our saviour being beaten with no sound we cringe because of the sight but when we post the sound of the flesh being torn from Jesus' skin to the man doing the beating, calling out the number of times he is flogging Jesus, it adds this element of hatred and sympathy; hatred for the flogger happily beating Jesus to shreds and sympathy, in its purest nature for Jesus trying to survive his torture.