'The Body' (The Movie)

No, I did not post it here by mistake :stuck_out_tongue:

It is not about the movie, but the story of the movie which is volatile in nature..

I suppose most of you have not seen it, so here is what the movie is all about :slight_smile:


Jonas McCord’s The Body examines the threat science poses to organized religion. It begins as archeologist Sharon Golban (Olivia Williams) is venturing into a tomb, recently discovered beneath a small shop in Jerusalem. Inside the tomb, dated at 32 A.D., is a clay wall that hides the remains of a crucified man. The point that piques Dr. Golban’s interest is that during this time in history, all crucified people were denied the luxury of a tomb, except for Jesus.

As Dr. Golban makes a more thorough investigation of the site, she discovers other clues that lead her to believe the deceased man is Christ. When a local priest confirms her findings and begins to doubt his own faith (which, of course, has a very particular story about what happened to Christ’s body), the Vatican sends Father Matt Gutierrez (Antonio Banderas), a former military intelligence agent turned priest, to Jerusalem with specific instructions. Due to the potential damage an “unrisen” Christ could cause to Christianity, Gutierrez is told to debunk the recent findings, at any cost.

Father Gutierrez at first uses the influence of Moshe Cohen (John Shrapnel), the Prime Minister’s aide, to stop the publication of Dr. Golban’s report. However, when they put all the evidence together, the two begin to bond, as even Gutierrez cannot deny that all signs point to the body being Christ’s. Tension builds when religious and civil strife breaks out in the city. Both Moshe Cohen and the fanatical leader of the Popular Front of Jerusalem (Muhamed Bakri) attempt to steal the bones in order to blackmail the Church, knowing that if the public were to find out that Christ was a mere mortal, the Vatican might face extinction. At the same time, even Cohen admits that what he is doing poses no real threat to the Church, because “faith” cannot be broken by logic or material “proof.” He points out that, if people want to believe that Christ had risen, even when the existence of the man’s remains prove otherwise, then there is no stopping them.

**The Body is most intriguing in its refusal to take a clear stance on either side of the issue. This strategy is clear from the beginning, as the priest and archeologist work side by side. Viewers are allowed to make their own decisions, based on the “facts” in this fiction film. And sometimes the “facts” are not so clear. It turns out that Gutierrez is a stubborn believer himself, asserting that if the body did turn out to be the unrisen Jesus, he would pray to God for guidance and his faith would not sway. **

More unconventional is the light that McCord casts on the politics of organized religion, questioning the motives and practices of the Church. When the Church rejects any possibility that the body might be Christ’s, it shows no consideration for its believers who might be understandably upset at such news. The Body depicts the Church leaders as corrupt and tyrannical (using Gutierrez, the Vatican manages to stop the publication of Dr. Golban’s findings altogether), and in doing so, the movie argues that organized religion is fallible.

Perhaps most importantly, The Body explores the possibility, or impossibility, of a universal faith. Everyone in the film is futilely struggling to find the one true religion. In the end, Golban’s daughter shows how unimportant this struggle is. As her mother tucks her in to bed, her mother asks if the girl is bothered that she cannot see her God. The daughter replies that her dead father sees God in the afterlife, implying that we all report to the same creator when we die.

http://popmatters.com/film/reviews/b/body.shtml

I saw the movie more than a year ago and find it interesting !
Now the questions:

If the fictional part story happens sometimes in future (or past) What line of action, the Roman Catholic Church would take ? Will it be any different than it is shown in movie ?

What will be the effect on the followers of three major religions, will it shake our beliefs ? to what extent. Or we will refuse to believe it altogether !

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Question 1.
they will do as they did with the dead sea scrolls.... take them and hide them somewhere.
Question 2
the jews will do nothing as Jesus has nothing really to do with them
the Moslems will do nothing except try and nick the body to create a shrine and then worship him or more likely say it is a rumour from the infidels and who believes in scientists anyway

the Christians will um and ahh and most denominations wont believe it except the born again Christians from America who will go to where he is and pray and then buy the tourist nick nacks like tea towels

the church of scientology would transfer his soul to their possesion for 1 million years

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hmmmm .... interesting. In my opinion:

Jews: It would be like a day at Disneyland for them. They'll probably give the event as much media coverage as possible.

Chirstians: They would probably deny the body being that of Jesus.

Muslims: Well if the body was crucified, it couldn't be Jesus.

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^ So Christians would deny, but for Muslims it would be imposssible? If a Christian was as firm in his beliefs as a Muslim, then it also couldn't be Jesus.

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True ! … and that is why they would deny it.
So basically, only the Jews would accept such a finding.

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I have seen the movie…

It’s written and directed by Jews and takes a stab at Christianity…

As usual, Muslims are animals, Christians are dumb and Jews rule the world…

They show a Francisan priest going nuts and committing suicide after it’s discovered that the body is that of Christ…

The story of the risen saviour was a myth after all…(So the Jews wish…)

Then there’s this merciless Muslim who takes a hostage and is as cold blooded as a frozen slurpee, which BTW has absolutely nothing at all to do with the plot of the movie…But the vicious Muslim had to be placed somewhere, so this sub-plot develops…

The only beautiful thing about the movie are the locales…

:nook:

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^ The critical analysis was not required, anyway thanks for doing so.

I believe it could be more deeper than that ...

The action of church, muslim and jewish hooligans shown in the movie are not far from reallity. but

As the media is mostly controlled by jews, so It will we be against the cotemporary wisdom of jewish race to hurt Chirstian sentiments at such a huge scale.

As per Muslim belief, the person crucified was not jesus (pbuh). So finding a body of that person does not mean anything.

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I have seen the movie and it was quite interesting. It was quite realistic the reaction shown by some church high-ups.