Långfredag eller påskdag?

The movie is lauded by Catholics and conservative Protestants most everywhere, and why not? It falls perfectly in line with their particular theories of atonement, which live smack in the middle of the Crucifixion event. And this is my bone of contention: Why is it that so many Christians are rooted in Good Friday as the definitive statement of their faith? We are supposed to be an Easter community, living in the faith that no matter what comes our way, by emulating Jesus’ life, not death, we will share in his new life for all time, beginning now, at this moment. Gibson underscores this by spending (dragging out?) two hours and some change on the agony of Good Friday, and only a moment or two at the very end on the empty tomb on Easter morning, as if it were a post-script to two days before.