Kind of an ambiguous passage, I'd say--...Is Jesus promoting blind faith in general?, or just telling Thomas "yeah, easy for YOU to believe...you see the wounds"...?

As to the effect of the movie...nothing I have read in the Bible says there was as much blood and agony and beating and violence as Mel likes to put in his movies! The force of such a graphic film is gonna stir up emotions, that's fer shure!