The film starts out with a man in a white robe who represents Jesus who stands for “good” and a guy that is representing Satan who is wearing a red and black robe who stands for “evil”. It shows Satan tempting Jesus and how Jesus wants nothing to do with him. Satan tries to get Jesus to jump off the cliff and he says “your God will save you” and Jesus won’t do it. He tells Satan to get behind him and pushes him down. Throughout the entire film Satan always appears when there is something bad that is about to happen or has already happened. For example, he appears after the little boys were beaten and killed, he appears at the tent the night Judas leaves to go and betray Jesus, and He also shows up after they beat Jesus.
There isn’t really a crucifixion scene like we are used to seeing. They come to the garden and take Jesus after Judas betrays him with a kiss. After they have him they take him somewhere where they then almost beat him to death. After they beat him they ask him to join power with them and if he won’t they will kill him. So Jesus then asks how long it will take to kill him because he is not going to join power with them. They take Jesus’ beaten body to an unmarked grave where they then remove his boots because they are something of value and then shoot him. His mother and other women of the Hundred go to remove his body and return back to the city with it where they put it on a cross. They then begin singing and dancing in front of his body. At the end of the film doesn’t really show Jesus resurrecting it just shows his shadow appearing over the empty grave and he is surrounded by little angels. The film ends with Jesus walking up the hill with all of the little angels following him.
Placing the gospel story alongside a contemporary South African context creates a “new” Jesus figure because it gives us a new way to look at things by being able to compare new ideas with the old ideas we are so used to seeing in the Bible. Being able to look at what the Jesus of contemporary South Africa had to go through makes things so much more real and gives me a better understanding just how Jesus’ life may have been like. Creating the film in this way gives the audience something they can better relate to and may know more about.
The film’s depiction of Jesus has challenged the preconception or altered the view I had before taking this class because it gives me a better sense of how people around really reacted to his miracles and teachings. At the beginning of the film I didn’t really know what to expect but after watching the entire thing I really enjoyed this film. I enjoyed how this film had you look at the “new” Jesus.
There isn’t really a crucifixion scene like we are used to seeing. They come to the garden and take Jesus after Judas betrays him with a kiss. After they have him they take him somewhere where they then almost beat him to death. After they beat him they ask him to join power with them and if he won’t they will kill him. So Jesus then asks how long it will take to kill him because he is not going to join power with them. They take Jesus’ beaten body to an unmarked grave where they then remove his boots because they are something of value and then shoot him. His mother and other women of the Hundred go to remove his body and return back to the city with it where they put it on a cross. They then begin singing and dancing in front of his body. At the end of the film doesn’t really show Jesus resurrecting it just shows his shadow appearing over the empty grave and he is surrounded by little angels. The film ends with Jesus walking up the hill with all of the little angels following him.
Placing the gospel story alongside a contemporary South African context creates a “new” Jesus figure because it gives us a new way to look at things by being able to compare new ideas with the old ideas we are so used to seeing in the Bible. Being able to look at what the Jesus of contemporary South Africa had to go through makes things so much more real and gives me a better understanding just how Jesus’ life may have been like. Creating the film in this way gives the audience something they can better relate to and may know more about.
The film’s depiction of Jesus has challenged the preconception or altered the view I had before taking this class because it gives me a better sense of how people around really reacted to his miracles and teachings. At the beginning of the film I didn’t really know what to expect but after watching the entire thing I really enjoyed this film. I enjoyed how this film had you look at the “new” Jesus.
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