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Sometimes it is easier to hear a whisper than it is to hear a shout. Denys Arcand’s 1989 Jesus of Montreal whispers its message in comparison to the metaphorical and theological shouting that goes on in Mel Gibson’s 2004 The Passion of the Christ, and as a result is far more effective, While Gibson’s movie is likely to convince his core audience of evangelical Protestants and conservative Catholics that the view of the world that they already hold is indeed the correct one, Arcand’s movie is likely to get people to revisit their assumptions and even to change the way in which they think about the world, This is one of the distinctions (and indeed