** SPOILER ALERT ** I got to go and see Exodus: Gods and Kings today. First let me say I loved the movie as a story and for the beautiful cinematography & special effects. Second, that it got the main points of the Moses story correct but the majority was changed. In the movie Moses tried to raise an army to defeat Ramses, by burning all the food stores and olive groves. Ramses retaliated by burning the hebrew slaves out of their homes. God, in the form of a child seen only by moses, accused Moses of being too slow in getting his people set free. Moses retorted that God hadnt done anything in 400years, he thought hed have more patience. God told Moses to just watch. Moses was just another casualty of Gods plaques which were not shown to be miracles but being caused by each previous plaque. A river full of crocodile attacked men, then each other, filling the waters with blood, fish died, frogs evacuated the waters, flies came, boils came because of the biting flies and locust came because all crops had been burned or destroyed. Moses never went to see Pharaoh until the morning of the day in which all first born children would die. The rest is pretty much biblical until they get to the Red Sea which recedes rather than parting, but Eqyptans die in the end, except for Ramses. God gives Moses the commandments to lead the people after he is gone. Moses questions Gods love in the movie at the continuing suffering of his people as does Ramses who asks, Who is your god that would kill even innocent children? Who indeed.
Posted on: Mon, 05 Jan 2015 17:20:12 +0000
Trending Topics
Recently Viewed Topics
© 2015