Here in Europe in many countries so far the distributors have decided not to release Gibson's Passion yet, so maybe I won't see it until it gets out on DVD.
From everything I’ve read those who experience the movie definitely have a lot of emotions generated by it. The thing about emotional reactions to any kind of faith based input does not mean that much to me anymore. The reason why is because so much of my religious experience in the Family was based on emotions and feelings.
If it wasn't for the daily rousing music inspired inspiration sessions we had day in and day out, especially at babe’s ranch I never would have stayed. Along with that came the love bombing. We were taught to pray with strong crying out to God in tongues and weeping. Then the guilt trips laid on us were emotion driven too, everything from Backsliders Beware to the warnings against husbands who didn't want to share their wives when FFing started. The list goes on. (The fact that Berg said that it's all by faith and not by feelings means nothing, because his brand of religiosity was very emotional. Remember his tapes? Talk about emotions.)
In my post Family experiences with faith, prayer and meditation, one of the things that has helped me the most has been to recognize that the faith I had in my experience in the Family was shallow, and the spirituality which I thought I had was based on passionate emotive feelings.
I'm sure I will be moved to tears with a lot of strong feelings when I see The Passion, but I don't think it will prove to be indispensable to my journey.