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the image of what

you're supposed to love?

Well, it depends on

how you interpret faith.

The traditional approach

to religion,

but who decides what is the

traditional approach to religion?

Because something that you read in

a book, because something that you...

We are talking about love.

We're talking about love

and Jesus represents love,

then why are you trying to destroy

the image of Jesus Christ?

-My movie's all about love, baby.

-Ok.

You saw it.

I understand.

-Well...

-We need to get Marie on the line.

I mean we all have opinions about

who Christ is, who Christ was.

But those opinions are based on...

on things that we learned in church,

based on things

we've read in bibles,

-religious stories that have been...

-You know what, you know what, Tony?

I talked to my mother

the other night.

I called her up and I said,

"Ma, there are all these

books,

Gospel books I've never seen before,

telling me all these

different things

about Christ and... Mary."

And she said, "Oh well,

I think if God hadn't want it,

He would have gave it to us because

I have everything

I need to know here.

There's nothing wrong with that."

And I said, "Well,

what do you mean, Ma?"

And she said,

"Well, it doesn't matter how many

times you tell or retell the story,

it doesn't matter if you change

it all around, it doesn't

matter because... because

God is talking about love,

God's saying,

"You need to love your fellow man,

you need to

love your family,

you need to love God..."

-Right on.

-So you don't really need to...

to do the thing... You don't

even need to retell the story.

What you need to do is...

I think your mum should come and

watch my movie because it sounds...

Sorry to interrupt you but Marie

Palesi is on the phone, on line.

-Are you still there?

-Yeah.

Ok.

-Marie Palesi.

-What's it...?

-Hello?

-Yes?

-Marie?

-Hello.

-It's Ted. It's Ted.

-Hi, hi Ted.

-Thank you for coming on my show.

-Oh, you're welcome.

-Hello Tony.

-Hello Marie.

Yours is a fascinating story.

A successful artist,

promising career.

Yet you decided

to leave it all behind.

What would make you leave behind

being an actress, Marie?

I had no other choice.

I played the role of Mary Magdalene

in Tony's movie and I

-Yes.

-became fascinated and inspired

-by her.

-Yes.

When you decide to change your life

you must give all yourself,

so...

You know, my heart was hardly

able to contain anything else.

-Right.

-That's why I stayed and...

What are you doing now?

Healing lepers?

I'd say that we are all capable

of becoming better people.

You know we see the results of

people in inner turmoil every day

and the one thing I'd like to say

is that my wish is that

all people in the world

acquire peace within themselves.

-That's all I wanted to say.

-That's beautiful.

Marie, thanks for

-sharing your insights with us today.

-You're welcome. Thank you.

-"Shalom". Bye.

-"Shalom".

And we're cut.

What the f*** was that? Why did

you have her on during my interview?

It's my idea. Sorry, I'm the producer

of the show, Brenda Sax...

I don't give a f*** who you are.

You invited me to come on to my...

-Come on to the show to talk about...

-We... we did, Tony.

-We talked about the film.

-I thought it was a good idea

to have two guests

of the same movie.

You invited me to come on to the show

to talk about my movie, not to...

not to do an interview with her.

What was she doing on my show?

-Honestly I...

-What was she doing on your movie?

-What d'you mean...?

-This is bullshit, man.

-We had an agreement.

-We still have an agreement.

-Yeah?

-We do.

I'll see you Friday.

You better hold up

your side of the deal!

-The madness of God.

-The madness.

Madness of God.

Because there is

an extreme, an expressive gesture

he does, that is his

taking off his robe,

and beginning to wash

the disciple's feet.

And for me that is

a very important

-Statemen.

-expression because

stripping himself,

he puts himself outside

every

position and

-social status.

-I understand, yeah.

Is that gesture how you reference

when you reference madness?

The last supper,

-the last supper of Jesus,

-Yes.

in that one in the John's Gospel,

-he does this gesture

-Right.

and he found the only

hierarchy

possible of his life,

and which is a hierarchy of love.

That is to say,

he wants, just yearns,

to live in the heart

of his own friends there.

So I...

So that gesture was his expression

of how much I care for you

because it was breaking

every social tabu.

"And I am able

to give myself in this way to you,

and so I underline

what is essential in my existence

and that could be important

-for your existence."

-As a last gesture

before he actually

is crucified, he says,

"Here I do this for you"

This is a memory I leave with you,

not necessarily

-an image on the cross,

-No, no.

-my love.

-This is gesture of love,

yes.

If it's because of something I did,

then punish me.

Punish me.

I've sinned.

Punish me.

Punish me.

Punish me.

Don't punish them.

I'm asking you,

I'm begging you to please,

take my life, not theirs.

If you could just save my wife

and save my kid,

could you forgive me for all the

things I've done, all the horrible...

things I've done.

I've done so many bad things.

Because I wanna feel You,

I do.

There's a hole inside me.

And I'm lost.

I'm so lost,

and I'm so empty inside.

I don't know

how to find myself anymore.

I don't know who I am.

I don't know.

If you could just show me.

If you could help me

find myself again.

Please.

Please.

Could you take this away from me?

Could you take this away?

Can you make my wife and my kid ok?

Could you just take this away?

Please, 'cuz if it's me,

just take me, 'cuz I don't...

I'm sorry.

I'm so sorry.

I just don't know, you know?

I just didn't know.

I just didn't know.

-Any news?

-No news.

-Keep trying.

-We're waiting for you.

Yeah. I'm coming.

How can he just

disappear like that?

He better be dead.

There's no answer.

Everybody here?

This lie inspired the murder

of my people in the millions

over the centuries

and this lie inspires,

inspired the Holocaust itself.

...where people have gathered

in protest of the film director

Tony Childress and his new film

"This is my Blood."

I didn't necessarily find it

anti-Semitic. I'm Jewish,

I did find it more anti-Roman

than anti-Jewish, for sure.

Tony Childress!

-What are your thoughts about it?

-I've got a question. Where's Ted?

-I'm Brenda Sax,

-He said he was going to cover this.

-standing in for Ted.

-Yeah?

I've got nothing to say to you...

What's this?

Ladies and Gentlemen,

we're going to have to ask you

to exit right away from the theatre.

Please remain calm and

just walk straight out to the exit.

Please, do not run.

...and all the people

are evacuated...

There's no bomb. It's just

a bunch of religious fanatics.

Everybody just calm down.

The director's

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