A verbatim filming of the book of Matthew from the Holy Bible. No dramatizations or amalgams from the other gospels.Pier Paolo Pasolini quite literally filmed it as Matthew wrote it. He called John too mysitcal. Mark was vulgar. Luke was too sentimental. A strange attribute for a doctor.
It's a reverent film when there are many opportunities to not be reverent or to be artsy or to prove a point.
Pasolini could've done this easily. He had every reason. He was a homosexual athiest. Plus, he was a figure in Italian cinema's neorealism with Rossellini and Fellini.
Artsy gay athiest don't typically retell Bible stories with the same reverence. Pasolini did and I respect the hell out of him.
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