The Passion of the Christ, a graphic cinema account of the last hours of Jesus's life, opened in America on February 25 and was shown the next day at a media preview in London.
Both here and across the Atlantic the film has generated a variety of extraordinarily intense reactions. On the one hand, Christians in many churches have hailed the epic as a spiritual experience of enormous proportions. On the other, the film has not only been accused of being overly bloodthirsty and violent, but also of being an incitement to anti-Semitism.
This month, as the UK release date approaches, EN asks: What's the truth about The Passion and should we go and see it?
