In The Last Temptation of Christ, the tragedy is that Jesus believes his death on the cross will change something, that his suffering has a greater meaning. He’s convinced that by dying, he can stop the inevitable future, i.e. Paul preaching, the destruction of Jerusalem, but in reality, none of that is prevented. What’s powerful is that, like all of us, Jesus tries to make meaning out of his suffering, imagining that if things had been different, his life might have mattered more. He deludes himself into thinking he had to die for the world to be saved, but the beauty of the story lies in how it shows our shared struggle to find meaning in a world that doesn’t always seem to care.In one of the film's key moments, Jesus gets angry at Paul for creating a false narrative to give people hope, yet what Paul describes is exactly what Jesus himself is doing, trying to impose meaning on his suffering through his "last temptation". Paul’s story about Jesus becomes a myth, a comforting lie to help people make sense of their pain, but it’s also the very thing Jesus is doing by believing his death has a higher, divine purpose. The irony is that Jesus rejects Paul’s myth while living out his own version of it, thinking that by dying, he can alter the course of history. This self-deception is the heart of the tragedy: Jesus, like all of us, creates a narrative to make his suffering feel justified, even though the world will continue moving forward regardless. It’s not just the death that’s tragic, but the belief that it matters in the grand scheme of things.
>>216941942>The Gospel according to RedditLame.
>>216941942>Paul for creating a false narrativeHollywood sure sounds a lot like Muslims.
>>216942913In the vision he has on the cross, Jesus never dies on the cross, so when Paul preaches he's literally telling a lie.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=poTqVcSgFRE
>>216941942Very ballsy movie all things considered.
>>216941942Gooned to preggo Barbara Hershey
>>216941942One of the best easter films imho
>>216941942when he meets Paul its a alternate future bad timeline where he did not die on the cross, its a vision. After he does it then the Paul we know from Acts comes forward. Acting like you dont know this means the movie was too complex for you. Second, Jesus would have pre-born instilled knowledge of his mission and purpose which is what John and Luke made crystal clear and the reason this movie is blasphemous is because it basically pretends Jesus did not have any such knowledge or insight and was just guessing. NOTHING in the gospels suggests Jesus wanted to fuck Magdalene, nothing suggests he was struggling with his sexuality and yearning to become a family man, its a 'what if' fanfiction.And you seem to be missing the entire point of the resurrection which is ithat it definitively proves he has dominion over death and we have nothing to fear because the resurrection on judgement day is certain and guaranteed so in the absence of that youre trying too hard to create a grand philosophical statement about accepting death.
>>216944019>Trying to impose meaning on his suffering through his "last temptation".The last temptation was the alternative timeline, which is also coincidentally what happened in real life. The only difference is that Jesus is alive rather than dead. I'm sorry that you're ESL, but the OP made that explicit.
