Plump, moving, full of philosophical thoughts

Aryanna 2022-03-25 09:01:10

This is the richest, most moving, and philosophical story I've ever seen, both in text and film.

1. The journey from enslaved Egypt to the good land of Canaan is an epic human journey.

2. In this journey, the disagreement between Moses and the overseer is a cultural divide between the East and the West, and the overseer being allowed to embark on their journey also symbolizes the tolerance of dissidents in a civilization.

3. Moses and Pharaoh. Moses' exile is another typical Oedipus complex story.

4. The relationship between the Hebrews and the Pharaoh is another expression of seeking a solution to this ancient Oedipus complex. Perhaps, this is the first time in human history to be recorded. The Pharaoh, who symbolized his father, gave up on the symbolism. The Hebrew enslavement of the son's power, the father's relinquishment of his power to let his children seek new ideals, remains an important theme in today's culture.

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  • [Opening line and sentences as movie started]

    Narrator: And God said Let there be light, and there was light. And from this light, God created life upon earth. And man was given diminion over all things upon this earth and the power to choose betweem good and evil. But each sought to do his own will because he knew not the light of God's law. Man took dominion over man, the conquered were made to serve the conqueror, the weak were made to serve the strong, and freedom was gone from this world. So did the Egyptians cause the children of Israel to serve with rigor, and their lives were made bitter with hard bondage. And their cry came up unto God. And God heard them and cast into Egypt, into the lowly hut of Amram and Yochabel, the seed of a man upon whose mind and heart would be written God's law and God's commandments, one man alone against an empire.

  • [the 'stick to cobra' combat had just occurred]

    Moses: You gave me this staff to rule over scorpions and serpents, but God made it a rod to rule over kings. Hear His word, Rameses, and obey.

    Rameses: Obey? Moses, Moses. Are there no magicians in Egypt, that you have come back to make serpents out of sticks or cause rabbits to appear?