Don't agree about The Passion; I did not see whatever you saw in it. Not saying it was my favorite film of the year (Team America has a reasonable shot - can't wait to see it!) or even that I liked it all that much (I'm pretty sure I liked, for example, "Mean Girls" better :), but the "hatred" parallel you attempt to set up between it and F9/11 rings false and seems forced. Just cuz both films are controversial doesn't make them equivalent parallel mirror images of each other.

But this discrepancy often arises because I actually watched the movie and whoever I'm talking to did not. Telling part of the article you link: "A lot of older Academy voters, who are largely Jewish, refuse to even see this movie". It's probably easy to decide a movie is "antisemitic" if you don't watch it. I know the antisemitic history of passion plays and all but um if I judge the movie based on, like, its own terms and not thinking about other stuff (besides, you know, the actual movie)... I just don't see it.

Did you watch it? Bombastic yes, antisemitic?... sorry I just don't get it. Story took place amongst a bunch of Jews, some good some bad... so what? --Blixa