It is said that Ben-Hur is very prestigious among the Jews. But that seems to be under-performing. I only know what kind of Jewish prince Ben Hur is, but I don't see any prestige.
I feel that if the Roman Mesera is Japanese, then the Jewish Ben-Hur is like Puyi. The Roman wanted Ben-Hur to be a puppet like Puyi and help him manage the Jews. But Ben Xu did not want to be Puyi.
But Ben-Hur didn't have any decent resistance. At first, there was no thought of using his prestige to rebel against Roman rule.
Until Messerajean was choosing between helping and resisting, although Ben-Hur chose to resist, he only said verbally and did not take any action at all.
He just didn't tell the truth.
And when the governor of Rome came, he and his sister were watching the fun on the second floor with relish.
In fact, in Jerusalem under Roman rule, the Jewish aristocracy at that time really had no consciousness of rebelling against Rome.
You know, Jesus Christ did not die at the hands of the Romans, but at the hands of the Jews.
It was the Jews who asked the Romans to put Jesus to death.
Who is this Jew? Of course, it was the Jewish aristocracy, that is, some religious priests and the like.
The only God that the Jews believed in at that time, God had only "prophets" and the like preaching in the world. But the prophet is not God himself.
And what Jesus Christ preached was that he was not a prophet, but the Son of God.
This is absolutely disrespectful among most Jews. In their eyes, God is the only God. If God has a son, he must have a wife, then there are two gods. If there is a son, then there are three gods. This is disrespectful to God. Therefore, in the minds of most Jews, Jesus Christ was either a lunatic or a heretic.
So, at that time, in the hearts of the Jews, Jesus was not popular. On the contrary, the Romans were very tolerant of Jesus. Because Jesus preached peace, not rebellion.
The Romans did not interfere with the Jewish beliefs. As long as you don't rebel against Roman rule.
Therefore, Jesus was arrested, not like the Romans, but the Jews, especially some Jewish nobles. Being executed was also what these Jewish nobles asked the Romans to do.
In the eyes of the Romans, Jesus and Ben-Hur were just ordinary Jews. There were not no people who believed in Christ at that time, but it was only a small branch of the many beliefs among the Jews. And most of the people who believe in Christ are the poor people at the bottom.
The film includes the Passion of Christ, but does not make it clear. Christ died at the hands of the Jews themselves. Because Jesus Christ offended the only God, God.
To this day, the relationship between Jesus and God in Christianity is still in turmoil. Especially at that time!
Plus, Messera doesn't seem to be getting the punishment she deserves. Although he was seriously injured and died. But when he died, he didn't have any remorse in his heart, instead he thought he didn't lose.
If I were filming it, Messera would not die, but her legs would have been sawed off. Then I saw Ben Hur's sister and mother's leprosy were cured by Jesus. After listening to Jesus' preaching, Messera's legs actually grew out, and then he converted to Christianity and sincerely repented (haha, it's just me It's a joke. But the film itself has a mythical factor in it. It's not too nonsense to shoot like this.)
Ben-Hur's character can be seen from the beginning, he is not a troublemaker. On the contrary, the character is more easy-going.
After the accident, he had a chance to kill Mesera, but didn't. Because Messera told him that if Ben-Hur killed himself, Ben-Hur's sister and mother would surely die.
But as a Jewish nobleman under Roman rule, it was not the first day he dealt with the Romans (he played with the Roman Mesera since he was a child), it is impossible for him not to know how the Romans brutally treated the framed Jews . And he also clearly knew that Messera was framing his family. Moreover, he knew that Messera had already sentenced him to death. At this time, the best choice was to force Mesera to let go of her mother and sister. And he chose to give up. No conditions were offered to Messera.
On the way, the reason he survived was not because he wanted to save his mother and sister, but because he met Jesus Christ (the one who gave him water) on the way, and he saw hope.
On the boat, he did not give up hope, also because he believed that Christ was with him.
To put it bluntly, this film is just a religious propaganda film.
The only bright spot is that the scene is very beautiful. Although we don't know what the Roman rule of 2000 was like. But the scene was shot enough.
You know, this movie was made in 1957. At that time, our country had just fought a war with U.S. imperialism in Korea, and our country still believed that our country was the second happiest country in the world (the Soviet Union was the happiest), and the people of U.S. imperialism were living in dire straits.
Our country is busy declaring war on the intellectual right!
Look at the evil American emperor, it is possible to rule out such a movie. I can't accept it.
Of course, I still don't like religious propaganda a bit.
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