Published Apr 22, 2004
Somehow, I’ve managed to miss everybody’s favorite new movie, The Passion of the Christ. I actually considered seeing it over the weekend, but, instead, I ended up seeing “Goodbye Lenin”. My brain apparently decided that I should have seen The Passion instead, because I had a dream I was watching the movie.
Actually, I think the dream was about a dream sequence in the movie, a scene which I’m sure doesn’t exist but which I, clearly, would have included in the movie.
In this scene, Christ is dreaming about getting crucified, or perhaps He’s imagining it. He’s first tied to the cross, then His head and arms are draped with red silk, then He’s nailed to the cross. As I watched the scene, I thought to myself, “this isn’t going to be the gory crucifixion scene, that comes when He’s really nailed to the cross.” And I was right! The nails were clearly not driven into Jesus’s hands, but instead into the cross between His arms and the red silk. As all this happens, passers-by talk about what’s going on in English.
Then, of course, I realized that the movie was supposed to be in Aramaic, so the language of the actors changes. Two people mock Jesus in what is probably actually German but heck I don’t speak German anyway so it might as well be Aramaic.
Then I woke up. This dream, I really don’t know what it means.