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Even the villainous Caiphas, the head Jewish rabbi, is a straw man. He is only characterized by his desire to kill Jesus. There is no subtlety, only his desire to kill this man, the hollowest of villains. Mary Magdalene, played by red-hot actress Monica Bellucci, has even less to do. The extent of her interaction with Jesus is to wash his feet in a flashback sequence and sob with mother Mary as they watch Jesus get led to his death. But since the audience has never been exposed to these characters, their mourning comes close to farce...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FILM REVIEW | 3/5/2004 | See Source »

Even the villainous Caiphas, the head Jewish rabbi, is a straw man. He is only characterized by his desire to kill Jesus. There is no subtlety, only his desire to kill this man, the hollowest of villains. Mary Magdalene, played by red-hot actress Monica Bellucci, has even less to do. The extent of her interaction with Jesus is to wash his feet in a flashback sequence and sob with mother Mary as they watch Jesus get led to his death. But since the audience has never been exposed to these characters, their mourning comes close to farce...

Author: By Ben B. Chung and Scoop A. Wasserstein, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Film Review of The Passion of Christ | 3/5/2004 | See Source »

...that's the case, it's more a reflection on the mood of the age than on its realities. As long as the state of the world means anything to us, the kinds of solutions Hougan proposes--giving up, accepting, waiting for the fireworks--will be the hollowest and most callous possible way of dealing with...

Author: By Nick Lemann, | Title: Decline and Fall | 12/1/1975 | See Source »

...their own game by giving a big Christmas feast and blowout for outcasts. No hymns, no prayers, not a word of preachment would embarrass Ammermeyer's free festivities, but "a dinner that went on in rhythmic waves,' all day and all night, until the hungriest and hollowest bum was reduced to breathing with not more than one cylinder of one lung...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Christian Triumph | 11/18/1946 | See Source »

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