Science may resolve this

Rating: 10/10 (29 March 2018)

Science tells us that the right brain, more dominant in some than others, accounts for peoples' understanding and appreciation of abstractions such as metaphor and allegory. That may very well account for the fact that some people love this movie and others hate it. It may be less a matter of aesthetics than a matter of perception. In any case, if I didn't get it, I'd be less inclined to accuse those who do get it of pretension and more inclined to learn what they see that I don't. That would be the left brain thing to do. Anyway, if you have even a superficial knowledge of the Bible, this film shouldn't be as hard to understand as critics make it seem. It's surely no more of a mess than the source material is.