I saw two movies this weekend depicting the life of Christ, Christopher Spencer's Son of God and Johnny Cash's Gospel Road.  I found Gospel Road to be the most moving,  It portrayed Jesus as fully man, joyfully experiencing the glory that is life on earth.  He and his crew of merry men jest and laugh and joke as they travel the dusty roads of the Holy Land.  He builds sand castles with children and blows blurpie bubbles on their bellies and makes them laugh.  We sense the joy he experiences while fishing, sharing a meal, loving his companions..  By contrast, the Jesus in Son of God is removed, ethereal throughout.  . He watches with detached amusement as Peter hauls in the fish, The film fails to capture the joy Jesus must have felt, the love he felt for those who walked with him. The cinematography of the Son of God was stunning, the sweeping panoramas of the Holy Land, the Sea of Galilee, The Sermon on the Mount made me once again ache to visit Israel,  I liked the intense close ups that draws the viewer into the scene.....until the end.  Those final Crucifixion scenes were much to graphic to be spiritually moving. The mind can imagine a horror more vividly than the bloodiest picture, The imagined whip, the sound of the hammer hitting the nail, the suggested torture is much more moving than the gory details Spencer incorporated into his film. The viewer walks away repulsed rather than uplifted.