BLOOD everywhere. A skinned back flayed by the scourge. A pair of eyes almost shut by thick blood flowing from the wounds. Two palms spurting blood as they are nailed to the cross...

Is this how the agony of Jesus should be shown? I saw The Passion of the Christ at a cinema solemn with no popcorn-chewing. I witnessed a pornography of violence.

Pornography is a form of expression that breaks out of what has hitherto been considered respecta