|
Last Temptation of Christ
1988 -
USA /
Canada
- 164 min. -
Feature, Color
Director:
Martin Scorsese
Cast:
Willem Dafoe,
Harvey Keitel,
Barbara Hershey,
Harry Dean Stanton,
David Bowie.
More Information:
All Movie Guide
Características del DVD
- Lang.: English
/ Subtitles in English
Alquílela
por (rent it for): $3.77
(dos días - two days)
Si vive en
Weston (if you live in Weston)
Sinopsis
(All Movie Guide)
Willem Dafoe plays
Jesus
Christ in this extraordinarily controversial adaptation of
Nikos
Kazantzaki's novel. The film depicts a sometimes reluctant, self-doubting
Jesus,
gradually coming to accept His divinity and the inexorability of His ultimate
fate. The much-maligned sex scene with
Mary
Magdalene (Barbara
Hershey) occurs as an hallucination experienced by
Jesus as he
suffers on the cross. This particular sequence was what infuriated the film's
most rabid critics, but in fact it is just one of many iconoclastic musings to
be found in the film and its source novel. Equally volatile are the
intimations that, as a carpenter,
Jesus
indifferently shaped the crucifixes for other condemned prisoners long before
his own fate was sealed, and that
Judas (Harvey
Keitel) was literally manipulated into betrayal by a
Christ
whose preoccuption with his own destiny compelled him to "use" others. None of
these departures from the normal interpretation of the scriptures are offered
as any more than theory; as such, it was accepted as food for thought by the
more open-minded clerics and Biblical scholars who recommended the film.
|
