This film review should have ended here, because I have tried my best to write the above paragraph that remains "neutral". If I were asked to write it down, or if it was written by anyone else, I would write it all down. Without an objective film review, this is not caused by human character, but by the characteristics of religion, especially Christianity, a single-god religion. Their greatest tolerance for pagans is peaceful transformation. If you don’t believe in religion, you will feel It's nothing, but it's not a tolerance for religious people? Those vivid examples in history, you can see for yourself. So I saw a lot of film reviews about this movie that avoided religion and talked about human nature, specifically the human nature of Moses. We can see through the movie that Moses in the film has been processed. In my opinion It is a failure to deal with this, because no matter whether it is a Christian or a pagan, there is no need for a Shakespeare-like Moses to appear in such a popular science movie. Those who are familiar with the "Bible" know that Moses is in the book. Divinity, not only did I not see Moses' divinity in the movie, but even human nature was distorted. This is the director's compromise to the audience. This modification is self-defeating, so it's really nothing to talk about human nature in this movie. Nice to talk about?
If we don't talk about human nature and religion, what else can we talk about in the face of this movie?
right! Talk about faith!
Faith is a bigger topic than religion, because human beings can have no religion, but they cannot have no faith. As for those who confuse religion with faith, they have no knowledge. Such people are quite scary because of their beliefs. It is more realistic. When their abilities are limited due to lack of knowledge, they will pursue realistic ideals into unrealistic ideals, and then adopt some unrealistic means. It's better to stay away from this person.
Ancient Egypt is not so much a religious system with polytheistic beliefs, it is better to say that they only have beliefs and no religions, because religions have symbolic scriptures to restrain the words and deeds of believers. Not only that, these scriptures will not be changed anyway, while ancient For thousands of years of Egyptian rule, the personal speeches of the pharaohs were used as the legal standard, and dozens of dynasties did not leave an immutable written code sufficient to explain the uncertainty of religion and the necessity of belief.
If you just look at this film as a mythical film, faith is the only topic in the film. Of course, if you delete the part of Moses making the stone code in the film, this film can also be seen as a mythical film. After more than ten years The previous cartoon "Egyptian Prince" is much smarter than today's "Pharaoh and the Gods", it draws people's attention to the visual spectacle (actually auditory spectacle) I mentioned earlier, this religious The de-religious approach of the movie is very effective, and today's "Pharaoh and the Gods" can fully meet any expectations of an ordinary audience for the movie if it only discusses the picture, scene, soundtrack, special effects and even acting skills. , but this old man Ridley Scott has really made a lot of blockbusters, and he added a blunder like Moses at the end of the film, which made the film have a strong religious flavor. The epic film that took so much effort to create The atmosphere fell short at the end, pulling the audience back to reality from the shock of just 2 hours to think about the meaning of religion, but who can tell what exactly this meaning is? As a result, the film lost both word of mouth and box office in the war of words of the first audience.
Exodus? If only it was out of Egypt.
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