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Author Topic: Alternatives to The Chosen?  (Read 14711 times)

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Re: Alternatives to The Chosen?
« Reply #5 on: March 09, 2024, 04:31:27 PM »
The Passion of the Christ.

Re: Alternatives to The Chosen?
« Reply #6 on: March 10, 2024, 01:22:43 PM »
Your father wanted to watch The Chosen with you.   I have watched it with my husband on dvd.  You can watch it online for free. 

You can always point out the errors when they come.   





Re: Alternatives to The Chosen?
« Reply #7 on: March 10, 2024, 09:03:10 PM »
I don’t want to give bad advice.

Maybe you should pray about it.

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Re: Alternatives to The Chosen?
« Reply #8 on: March 10, 2024, 10:14:23 PM »
I really liked Jesus of Nazareth (1977) when I first saw it, though sadly it depicts our Lady as experiencing the pains of childbirth. I watched it a few years ago early on in my Catholic conversion journey, so I don't remember if it had any other theological issues, but it seemed to stick closely with the four gospels (the depiction of Jesus is much better than in The Chosen). The director was a Catholic, but had a bit of a checkered past. Sadly he was sɛҳuąƖly abused by a priest as a child and he came out as gαy twenty years after the movie's release, but apparently according to his Wikipedia article, "He was criticized by members of the gαy community for upholding the Catholic Church's position on ɧoɱosɛҳųαƖity[37][38][39] and by others for support of the Church's position on abortion,[38][39] which extended to calling for capital punishment for women who had terminated a pregnancy.[39]". Likewise, "He also roused accusations of antisemitism for describing Martin Scorsese's The Last Temptation of Christ as a product of "that Jєωιѕн cultural scuм of Los Angeles which is always spoiling for a chance to attack the Christian world."[38]", so he's pretty aware of the merchant issue. I'm in the process of re-watching the six hour long movie, so I'll try to keep an eye out for anything else that contradicts the Catholic faith.

Offline Ladislaus

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Re: Alternatives to The Chosen?
« Reply #9 on: March 11, 2024, 06:43:59 AM »
I'm not convinced about the "pains of childbith" angle.  Our Lord and Our Lady took on many of the sufferings that they would normally have been exempt of due to being free from Original Sin.  Suffering and death in general are the consequences of Original Sin, but they willingly accepted them anyway.  I didn't watch this movie nor do I intend to, but if they depiced Our Lady as screaming/shreiking, etc., then that would be completely out of line, as I'm sure she bore whatever suffering she did experience with full dignity.