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Article · Film
Coffey takes the illness into his hands. Isaiah wrote the gesture centuries before.
Coffey is a Christ figure, the critics say. The phrase is too smooth. Isaiah's verse names the specific verb: he bore the sickness. He carried it. The film films the verb.
Article · Film
Gibson did not invent the wounds. Isaiah described them seven hundred years before.
Critics called the film gratuitous. But Isaiah's verse, written centuries before any cross was raised, names the bruises one by one. The film does not exceed the prophecy — it visualizes it.