But there are many things inside and outside the film that caused me to reflect deeply. In the film, the Hebrews who were chased by the Egyptian pharaoh Amses were led by Moses to the Red Sea. With the help of God, a "road to the sky" suddenly appeared in the ocean to help them escape the pursuit of the Egyptians. When Moses urged his weary compatriots to hurry across the sea to the other side, the Hebrews resisted
"your commandment, like the whip of the Egyptians, but we are no longer slaves
," Moses explained, " But you are not completely free either, you have not seen the land of Canaan, the land of our ancestors, you have trusted me, now I give you faith, follow me and you will be free. Stay and you will face extinction disaster".
Any epic has its actual basis and meaning of existence. The movie is adapted from the "Bible", and the "Bible", as a Christian holy relic, is not so ungrounded, nor is it an objective historical record, from which you can peep into the Greek. The real history of the Belgian departure from Egypt. Since there are no historical records and data to prove it, we try to make such a conjecture: The Hebrew refugees who were conquered for the first time poured into Egypt and became slaves. After 400 years, some outstanding leadership tasks have emerged among them. Among them There are generals who are ready to call on their compatriots to resist. At this time, in order to mobilize all the depressed people who have become slaves to fight against themselves, several problems need to be overcome. The first is the fear of the pharaoh. The soul that has been slaved for 400 years is both physically and mentally enslaved. The biggest fear is " The pharaoh is immortal", because "the pharaoh is the sun god", the living environment around them has always reminded them.
We recall that there was such a scene in "10,000 Years Before History": a large number of rebel slaves besieged the pharaoh, but when the pharaoh appeared, everyone knelt unconsciously, and this surrender was due to the fear of mythology. This is the hero holding the spear, stabbed the pharaoh to death with one arrow, and then shouted "the pharaoh can also die". At this time, the slaves broke their fear and continued to fight, and finally got their freedom.
"10,000 Years Before History" records the resistance of primitive tribes in evolution, while the Hebrews in "Pharaoh and the Gods" are different. As the birthplace of the four major civilizations, the homeland of Hebrews is "New" The "Moon Zone" (Canaan) was civilized very early, so the inner pursuit of the Hebrews was far more than killing slave owners and then living in peace. Their goal is to restore the country. So they face even greater resistance. To break the fear of Egyptian mythology, only the superstition of "Pharaoh = God" can be broken; the Hebrews who have been awakened after being deceived can be organized, but if they are made to believe that Pharaoh is not God, they will no longer believe in God. It is a person, so the new leader cannot claim to be the "Son of Heaven", at most a person who can talk to "God", and this God only helps the Hebrews. The new leaders skillfully linked the ten accidental disasters in Egypt to the wrath of God, proving that Pharaoh was not a god, that God was punishing Pharaoh for lying, and also made the Hebrews confident that they were a group of elites chosen by God. become slaves.
Secondly, the goal of the organized Hebrews was to "recover the kingdom". However, perhaps Egypt was still strong under the rule of Amses at that time, and the 400,000 Hebrews could not compete with the army of the country of ten thousand. What's more, the combat effectiveness of Egypt at that time was indeed not to be underestimated. They had the most powerful "chariot" troops. So the Hebrew leaders decided to find another way, first to leave Egypt, which had enslaved them for many years and could not conquer, and returning to their hometown in Canaan was the best choice.
"I'll take you home" - is always the best way to touch people's hearts.
I prefer to believe that Egypt was their own effort in letting the Hebrews leave Egypt, not God's threat to Pharaoh and the Egyptians. In any case, in the end, the Pharaoh allowed the Hebrews to return to the east. Maybe the Egyptians just wanted to use the geographical advantage to annihilate them all in Suez. This was a wonderful strategic encirclement plan, but the Hebrews miraculously broke through the line of defense and Natural obstacles, successfully left Egypt. Further on, it's a flat river, the Hebrews will return to their native land, and the story will be a joyous outcome. But in fact, these Hebrews who broke through the siege, and the leaders of the Hebrews, had a greater threat. Let's recall a scene from the movie first.
A dialogue between Moses and his companions who got rid of the Egyptian tail:
"We still have a long way to go, and many unforeseen things will happen. In the end, if we go where, if we really go"
"Do you think Will he let us settle down?"
"They'll see us as intruders"
"They don't have a choice because we're strong"
"It's because we're big like a state that I'm worried"
"Why"
"So many people, you know what we're worried about"
"At least we have a common goal"
"Yes, but we don't know what to expect when we stop"
This involved some problems faced by the Hebrews at that time. First, although there was no chasing troops, the new residents of Canaan would not welcome such a large group of refugees to come back and divide their fields, so they would encounter resistance. The second is that this group of Hebrews who are trying to restore the country is too large, and they are a threat to the surrounding powers, so let alone the revenge of the Egyptians. The nearby Assyria, Hittites, etc. would not ignore their existence. In fact, the Jewish kingdom after the restoration of the country was destroyed by the surrounding countries. The third is that a group of disaffected people cannot unite forever to achieve great things, so new discipline regulations are urgently needed.
It would be wrong to say that the first law was Moses' "Ten Commandments" inscribed on a stone tablet. Because Egypt should have had laws that stipulated slavery, such as the Code of Hammurabi in Babylon, but this type of code was a private rule for rulers to maintain the stability of the rule and ensure that their sacred position was inviolable. But the Hebrews who came out of Egypt were different. At this time, they didn’t believe in who was God. At most, they believed that there was a “God” who could hear and see. All people were equal. But not God! Therefore, the new rules governing discipline cannot be the private rules of the leader, but must meet the ethical value norms of "the majority", so this is also the preciousness of the "Ten Commandments", he is the first civilian Covenant, because it is rooted in all consensus and closely related to actual interests, it has super binding force.
Under the circumstances at that time, the Hebrew leaders who were facing difficulties deeply understood the arduousness of restoring the country, and also felt the reality of "hardening the iron itself" and could not always rely on the "natural disasters" given by God to tide over the difficulties. The faith of God can bring all people together, but it cannot make the assembled people have fighting power. And leaders may also know deep down, does God really exist? Is it really helping the Hebrews? Are visions really created to help leaders lead the people through mountains and rivers? Ordinary Hebrews do not understand, but leaders understand. So before the people doubted themselves, the leaders first issued a law with fairness and strong binding force, and then said that God is gone, and the future is up to you, "I only help you here", In addition to helping his career be successful, he also "rounded up" his "liar field". Objectively, the rectification of Moses and his companions had a significant impact on the subsequent restoration of the country and even the process of Western civilization. After the Autumn Harvest Uprising led by the Communist Party of China, the "Three Bays Reorganization" rectified the military discipline reorganization mechanism to upgrade the revolutionary troops. From this point of view, Moses and his companions are very wise, and of course they may have been forced.
Go back and jump out of the movie to watch. Even today, the life and development model of Westerners is still the social development model led by Moses. Above society, God pays attention to all things in the world, and below all living beings are equal, and priests can listen to God's will and convey his joys, anger, sorrows and joys. The people under God’s decree formulate laws and conventions based on the principle of equality, and everyone abides by them. If they don’t comply, it will cause God’s wrath, and a spectacular flood and cruel end-time judgment will come as scheduled. Therefore, everyone is in danger and walking on thin ice. This is the basis of the Western social contract, and the people's firmness in belief and obedience to the law comes from the heart.
In the East, after the Spring and Autumn Period, Confucianism gradually became orthodox, and the social and ethical system based on the family and the state was gradually established and solidified. The system model with patriarchy as the core makes China, even if there is no common God, to countless parents and elders, it is like the God of various families and families, and the whole country takes the "Emperor" as the unified "God". Here, the "God" represented by the Chinese "Emperor" is different from the Sun God represented by the Egyptian Pharaohs. The Chinese "Emperor" does not represent a person or a family. The group he represents has a common value and is admired by many "parents". "Big head", as for who is the emperor, it doesn't really matter much. That's right,
——"The prince and general Xiangning have a kind of call"!
Nowadays, Chinese and Western civilizations are intertwined. After China reached the Manchu and Qing Dynasties, the changes in the system and the rapid development of the society, the people of the country gradually lost the consciousness of the family and the world, there was no king, and the core values of national unity have not been fully established. In the absence of parents, especially after family planning, the original family structure of "equilateral triangle" in the order of elders and children has changed into an "inverted triangle"-shaped family structure with the young as the core. The entire national ethical system is in disarray. Nowadays, many people advocate Westernization, but let me ask you one or two, do you understand the core issues between China and the West? Do you know the ins and outs of Western values? Do you know its core concept? Would it be a bad graft to transfer their laws and values? Is it selling dog meat with a sheep's head?
The second biggest impression after watching this film is that Moses was actually an outstanding revolutionary among the ancient Hebers, and the book of Exodus was a slave uprising and a movement for the restoration of the country. He and his partners created a social governance model in the revolution, which has been preserved to this day. He created the pride of the Hebrew nation and regarded himself as the darling of God. Today, the descendants of the Hebrews, the Jews, still swim well in the value system of the Western world with this pride. Reflecting on our Chinese people, when our old system collapsed, we all imitated others. Isn’t it a pity to worship foreigners? Do we really need an “Exodus” of our own?
It is also very difficult for the Chinese people to "recover the country" in modern times. Whether it is the Reformation, the Westernization Movement, the Democratic Revolution, the New Democratic Revolution or even today's China's reform and opening up, generations of people have traveled on this road, from the old-fashioned restoration to the revival of Chinese studies. From the foreign-loving foreigners to the Marxist-Leninist Mao Deng, Liang Qichao believes that the Chinese civilization is the greatest civilization in the world, and Hu Shi also believes that the current era of Chinese and Western philosophies will create an era of new philosophy, and what Xi Jinping strongly advocates is also our civilization. Self-confidence. Of course, the current situation corresponds to the dialectical relationship between the future and the bright - "the future is bleak, the road is bright", and finally use the scene in the film to comfort and encourage yourself. God",
"this is your own choice",
as long as you keep working hard, one day you can question your God:
"Now you can't stand it anymore, where have you been in the past four hundred years? ?"
"You think I'll just sit around and do nothing"
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"From now on, you can just watch"
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