L E Startzman

As long as there is art/Art we will be confronted with choice, and, I think, forced to consider: what is the nature of ultimate reality?  Is it simply "Matter in motion," or is it Mind?"  Which gives rise to that which is?  All this thisness, so to speak.

This is Clooney as the somewhat dim-witted Baird Whitlock nonetheless delivering his magnificent speech as the Roman Centurian Autolocus before the Crucified Christ. 

As "fixer," Eddie Mannix becomes an image of the Christ who has "fixed" human nature (MAN) by taking our sin upon himself, making it possible to regain the virtue and goodness we lost in the FALL...  

For the action of the movie, we are at the central moment where Clavius comes face to face with the Risen Yeshua, a man Clavius had seen dead on the cross. 

Here we see Bartholomew and Clavius talking near the end of the movie.   Bartholomew is the disciple who expresses the joy and delight of knowing Yeshua even as Clavius had threatened him with crucifixion.  Here they are now companions. 

The Tribune Clavius, the central face in a movie about the meaning of meeting face to face with an irreconcilable reality: Yeshua was undoubtedly dead/Yeshua is undoubtedly alive! 

Everything in the poem leads up to this moment of opportunity, and then everything recedes from the missed opportunity. 

"Shall I say..."