Abstract

Filmmaker Paul Verhoeven reveals the historical Jesus as a political radical living in dangerous times. Verhoeven extricates Jesus from church doctrines and legend alike to reveal a moving story of a man who believed the kingdom of God was nigh. Verhoeven gives us his cinematic vision of Jesus as a complete human, a person changed by events, the leader of a political movement, and, most importantly, someone who, in his speeches and sayings, introduced a new ethics in which the embrace of contradictions and paradoxes transcends the mechanics of value and worth