How Did You Feel

[thicke]

i felt (and feel) very physically and emotionally drained.

Yep. Me too. I would almost describe it as feeling numb. It's like your senses are so overpowerd, they need time to get back to normal.

[Rebirth flame]

Yep. Me too. I would almost describe it as feeling numb. It's like your senses are so overpowerd, they need time to get back to normal.

i've talked to alot of people that felt or feel that way from the movie

[Cesar624]

I COMPLETELY AGREE! The scenes with Our Blessed Mother made me cry a lot too. And after the movie, my friends and I were just silent for a while, then I broke it by saying "WOW". A movie has never left me feeling that way...maybe because it was much more than a movie. I really think God was working through Mel Gibson. It was so beautiful.

[cmotherofpirl]

I feel like I just came out of a warzone - shell-shocked.
We had 150 people from our Church in one section.
When it was over, we just sort of sat there, like what were we supposed to do now.

THe flashback to when Jesus fell as a little boy did me in.
I could not watch the nails, for all the money in the world, I simply could not open my eyes.

We sat in silence on the way home, and talked just a little about it today.
It is still too much.
I never ever want to commit a sin again. Ever.
THe wages of sin is death.

[luciana]

I saw it twice;The first time, at the end of the movie I went to my car, and I had a 20 min. drive ahead of me. I sat in the freezing cold car, visibly shaking, for several min. and then drove listening to some slightly meditative music, just replaying scenes in my head, esp. the scenes w/ the Blessed Mother and our Lord.
Like the last few people mentioned, I was just phsically and emotionally drained as if I had been crying my eyes for hrs, which was weird cause i had only teared a little.
It was such a powerful experience; experience is the word and not movie...
today with Stations of the Cross w/ my student,s my eyes kept totally welling up-- which is hard since you normally can't focus like that when you're keeping an eye out for the kids.
This movie is awesome :wub:

[Rebirth flame]

yeah, i went to stations yesterday night, and i almost broke down halfway through it. it's beena week since i saw the movie, but i saw the scenes from the movie in my head as i was watching the priest move from station to station.

i think Simon the Cyrene's stage gets me the most, because we can all relate to him. there have been times in my life when i've been reluctant to carry my cross, but i have anyway, and you just start to feel.... like it fits, y'know??? i can't really describe it too well, sorry...

[hopeful1]

i just came back from seeing the movie, and i had meditated on the sorrowful mysteries earlier today to pshyc myself up for it. I felt-almost-numb through out the whole movie. I dunno if that's the word i'm looking for or not, but will have to do. I was actually sitting through the movie, wondering if i'm even human because it took me forever to cry. I mean I did alot of wincing and jumping back into my seat cuz it was soo graphic, but not alot of crying-which kinda worries me. I mean I did cry a little bit after they nailed him, i got a little teary in few other places like when mary had the flashback of little Jesus falling, but i never bawled like i thought i would. I almost walked out disappointed b/c i thought i would be more emotional. i guess i expected some big life changing, epithany (sp?) afterwards b/c everyone i've talked to has said how powerful it is, but it hasn't hit me yet. i mean i thought about a few scenes like when peter denighs jesus, and thought about how at times we all deny him, but other than that, not really. i dunno maybe it's b/c of the subtitles and i kept trying to figure who was who, or the fact my friend and i were sitting in the 5th row, or i was slightly annoyed by the fact the peter and john kept calling Mary mother, but other than the fact it was hard to watch, i felt...i dunno. maybe i'm just slow and it'll hit me in a few days. i think i just walked out feeling almost confused and i don't feel like i left getting what i thought i was supposed to get out of it. don't get me wrong-it was beautifully done with the way they portrayed the history and the people, but i feel like i should appreciate it more than just that. but my lack of reaction really worries me (maybe that's an oxymoron in itself)-maybe i need to see it again.

[cmotherofpirl]

Giver yourself some time to let it all sink in.

[jasJis]

I went w/ my wife and her parents (who aren't Catholic or any religion). We all cried. My mother-in-law, who thought she wouldn't cry because she's tough, has seen horror in real life during WWII, literally sobbed through most ofthe movie.

I cried throug most of it. Sometimes I felt charged, other times incredibly sad and powerless. The ending was powerful. It struck me as a command to Go and continue His work, what He has just done is our beginning, the turning point of changing the World of eternity. It explained why Satan was screaming. It was ensured Victory of Good. Though the War is won and the outcome is ensured, Satan will still fight and take as many casualties as he can.

Still, I was very choked up and couldn't talk for awhile. My wife and I sat in the car for about 5 minutes. For the next 15 minutes, if I started to talk about it, I had a hard time keeping from choking up and crying. I felt personally moved to respond to His call. I think it will strike people in many different ways and expect astounding and varied responses from people. Both immediate responses, and long term responses.

[Rebirth flame]

[quote name='hopeful1' date='Mar 6 2004, 10:30 PM'] but my lack of reaction really worries me (maybe that's an oxymoron in itself)-maybe i need to see it again. [/quote]
dude, don't worry about it. i know some people, myself included, that didn't cry at all throughout the entire movie. i felt like carp a few times, but i don't think that you have to feel a sertain way after seeing this movie. the main reason i started this thread is because i knew there'd be a ton of different reactions. as oddly misplaced as your reaction may seem to yourself, you're not alone. i actually left feeling happy. i got that feeling that there was something wrong with me because i didn't have any sort of major emotional shift, but maybe you or i weren't intended to. maybe we went in with too high an expectation of gore, and didn't get what we thought we would. i can't speak for you, hopeful1, but i know that God works differently in each person. take time to think about what it meant to you. take some time to reflect. take some more time to reflect on the stations of the cross and the sorrowful mysteries. then bask in the fact that He did all that for you. He did all that for us.

God Bless
Rebirth

[hopeful1]

thanks rebirth and cmom, i'll try to do that i think my friend felt the same way after we left, although she cried a little bit more than i did, so i know i'm not alone. i just kinda feel alone right now. maybe it's a delayed reaction thing.

[nikkan_hanil]

Kind of a hopeful, painful, hurt, joyful feeling at the same time. I was so famished after that, I started eating popcoren straight from a garbage can.

[Colleen]

[quote name='mulls' date='Feb 29 2004, 01:28 PM'] happy....almost ecstatic.



i was the only one in my group who had this reaction.


i was getting pumped up throughout the film.....like right at the beginning when Satan was messing with Jesus, I just wanted to scream out "GO AHEAD SATAN, KEEP TRYING, BUT YOU'RE NEVER GONNA GET HIM!!!"


and when he fell and Mary was there and he said to her "Look, I make all things new," I wanted to scream out "THAT'S MY JESUS!!!"


and when he resurrected i felt almost invincible.


i'm pumped. [/quote]
I felt that way too. When Satan was across from Mary on the Via Dolorosa and it kept looking at Mary, I wanted to yell out, "That's my mother! Get away from my Mother!"

The only part where I cried was when Jesus fell and there was that flashback to when Jesus is a little boy and he falls. That made me sob (like shaking sobs). There were other parts where i got a little teary but that was the only time i actually cried.

I don't know, maybe I'm just weird, but i didn't think the violence was overdone. I was expecting it to be worse, actually! And what was strange, i could watch the scourging, even with the flagellum whips, and i could even watch the nailing, but I could not watch the part where that crow thing pecks the bad thief's eyes out.

I wanted to see more of it, so i hope that they put out an extended cut. I want to see it again, too.

It was beautiful -- a sort of terrible beauty. And it goes down in my personal history for being the only movie to make me cry.

Edited March 10, 2004 by Colleen

[prov31girl]

I must say that I felt happy at the end simply because of how it ended. Yes, it was terrible to watch him go through so much suffering, but He overcame it. Jesus was victorious!!! It made me so happy to actually be able to see my Jesus resurrected.

[mom25angels]

I voted sad because it was the closest I could come to. Honestly here, I was sick. Maybe because it was so emotional. I've never seen a movie that was so personal.