message of 'Passion'   (link, opinion)

http://www.heraldargus.com/content/story.php?storyid=4158
"A major message of this film is that power corrupts. The priests kept the people from reading Scripture and thus were able to control their interpretation of it. The Roman army held dictator power over the locals and treated the people like lowly animals — and criminals, even worse — and neither were at an advantage to stop the abuses."