'When I was growing up in the early 90s, Lent marked the transition to spring, and spring meant my family’s annual pilgrimage to the town library to check out Jesus Christ Superstar on VHS. Ecstatic...' | katie_prout
later make that clear . But Jesus is taking the long view here—easier to do, perhaps, when your perspective of time is as long as the universe is wide, and when you know that God is real and so is the afterlife.In “Everything’s Alright,” Jesus’s answer to Judas’s question starts out low:There will be poor always, pathetically strugglingThen, suddenly, Jesus cups Judas’s chin, cradling his beloved’s face. Their eyes meet.
“Everything’s Alright” ends with the two men gripping each other’s hands as they realize they will, inevitably, need to let go. It’s a gorgeous, terrible moment. Mary Magdalene rushes in to soothe them both. Her imploring voice is raised up by a chorus of unnamed women who join her in peacekeeping and tending to the men—as so often happens in radical circles, regardless of how leftist and egalitarian a movement claims to be.softened, but I’d be lying if I said it went away.
As the song continues, scenes of Jesus carrying the cross to Golgotha are interspersed with visions of Judas and the angels wailing and rocking on a stage set like a night sky. The effect leaves the viewer with the impression that Judas is now Christ’s guardian angel, keeping his old friend and comrade company in his own prickly way.
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