Forward, February 20th, 2004
Newhouse, Alana Forward 02-20-2004 In one of the last scenes of "The Passion of the Christ," the character of Mary, played with emotive steel by the Romanian Jewish actress Maia Morgenstern, embraces the mutilated body of her dead son. Streaks of dirt and Jesus' blood form swaths of darkness on her light skin, as Morgenstern looks ahead with a combination of maternal wrath, sheer exhaustion and the placidity of faith. It is a subtle evocation of complex emotions in a movie that often settles for the comfortable starkness of simplistic interpretations. In an interview with the Forward, Morgens...
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