A great movie with a core story worth thinking about

Celine 2022-03-22 09:01:37

The grand composition brings out the insignificance and powerlessness of mortals, and Moses' scenes are perfect. The characters of Ramses and Moses are full of relationships. Moses faced the grief of the devastation after the disaster in his hometown Egypt, and the guilt of breaking with his brother was in place. The overall animation process is a bit low in completion, some secondary scenes lack depth of field, the accuracy of the head dynamic modeling of the secondary characters is slightly insufficient, and some inserted songs are a bit rough. Aside from the movie itself, the most terrifying thing is the paranoia and conceit of the biblical story. The ancients thought thousands of years ago, confronting atrocities with indiscriminate violence, confronting terror with terror, and then accusing the other party that they should be responsible for it. This kind of occupation. Isn't the terrorism of the moral high ground still continuing today? In order to get the Hebrews out of Egypt, wasn't it a terrorist attack that God launched against the entire territory of Egypt and all the people? In this case, Moses' innocent expression of "I'm sorry, you brought it on yourself" is a bit offensive. But Moses, as a mortal man, was not a pawn of God involuntarily? In the face of Moses' retreat and evasion, God scolded him sharply and forced him to submit. In the movies, the representation of God is harsh and terrifying. As a relatively faithful Bible adaptation story, there are limitations, and it is difficult to have more space for exploration and free interpretation. Overall still a great movie.

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The Prince of Egypt quotes

  • Yocheved: [singing, while wrapping a blanket around her baby and hiding it in her arms] Yal-di ha-tor veh he ha-rach...

    [My good and tender son]

    Yocheved: Al ti-ra, veh al tif-chad.

    [Don't be frightened and don't be scared]

    Yocheved: My son, I have nothing I can give, but this chance that you may live. I pray we'll meet again, if He will deliver us...

    [Yocheved, Miriam and Aaron race to the river with the baby]

    Chorus: Deliver us, hear our prayer, deliver us from despair, these years of slavery grow too cruel to stand! Deliver us, there's a land you promised us, deliver us out of bondage and deliver us to the promised land...

    Yocheved: [placing the baby in the basket] Hush now, my baby. Be still, love, don't cry. Sleep as you're rocked by the stream. Sleep and remember my last lullaby, so I'll be with you when you dream. River, oh river, flow gently for me. Such precious cargo you bear. Do you know somewhere he can live free? River, deliver him there...

  • Young Miriam: [singing, as the Queen takes Moses from the river] Brother, you're safe now, and safe may you stay. For I have a prayer just for you: grow, baby brother, come back someday. Come and deliver us, too...