Zacchaeus became a changed man because of that time with Jesus. Jesus stayed at his home, and all who witnessed it were so surprised that Jesus would associate with a sinner such as Zacchaeus. In Luke 19, Jesus called Zacchaeus, a chief tax collector, down from a tree. He became upset that they had turned the temple into a "den of robbers." So, yes, there were times He was frustrated with the sinful ways of man, but many times He loved. Jesus was in the temple when He saw others selling and bargaining inside. Matthew 21:12-13 is a prime example of this. There were times when when He grew so frustrated with sinners just like you and I. He did not sugarcoat things, and he never compromised the truth. In the long run, I think this win will do more harm than good for DiCaprio, as the Academy and public down the line may remember him for "The Revenant" rather than the incredible "Blood Diamond" or "The Great Gatsby." However, I draw the line on the claim that the performance was Oscar award-worthy. I’m not even going to appeal to the “DiCaprio screamed and crawled around for two hours” argument I’ve seen, as I think he did have an Oscar nomination-worthy performance. In my opinion, I thought Keaton’s performance of a man pulled in two different directions - his Catholic upbringing and the truth - was far more compelling than DiCaprio’s performance of a man struggling to survive and take revenge on those who wronged him. But I also saw " Spotlight," and I was amazed that Michael Keaton was not nominated for his role of Walter Robinson, the head of the Spotlight investigative journalism team who broke the story on child molestation in the Catholic Church. The realism, the portrayal of loss and betrayal, the isolation: It was a poignant and beautiful movie. Suddenly all the wrongs he committed in life disappeared, and the romanticized idea of the father they always wanted, emerged. I love you and miss you dearly.” Conversations suddenly became about how hard it was to lose their father, but the problem was that they had never even found him. They started posting pictures of him on their Facebook pages on his birthday with captions such as, “You were the best father anyone could have ever asked for. I understood and comforted them, but as the months passed, I starting having trouble understanding. The kids, now teenagers, mourned his death deeply. They blamed most of their problems on growing up without a father and complained about the fact that he was wealthy, but they were struggling financially. He never remembered their birthdays or even called. A father abandoned his three children under the age of four. As a society, we tend to romanticize people after they die, but we fail to love them while they are still alive. We realize the things and people we had were special right as we lose them.
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