Review on The Prince of Egypt
On Friday, November 26, 1999, I sat down and viewed the entire movie "The Prince of Egypt". This movie was about Moses and some of his life journeys. In this movie you see Moses's transition from living as the Prince of Egypt to being God's deliverer and going against the Pharaoh to free the Hebrew's out of Egypt's slavery. This movie was excellent in the way it portrayed Moses's journeys and helped the viewer get a better understanding of all of the emotions that were taking place at this time. In the beginning of the story Moses was a newborn baby of a Hebrew family. At the time the Pharaoh had ordered that any son born into a Hebrew family must be thrown in the river as a means of execution. Moses's family tries to save him by placing him in a basket and sending him floating down the river, praying to God for his safety. His sister follows the basket floating down the river and sees that it floats up to the palace of Egypt where the Pharaoh's wife finds him and decides to keep him as her own son. Moses's sister sees that he has reached safety and prays that one day they will be reunited. During the next scene Moses is playing with his brother, Rameses, riding all over the kingdom
The movie then depicts Moses walking through the town speaking with angry Hebrews that are enraged because of the doubled workload they had been given. As he is speaking with the Hebrews, Moses is reunited with his enslaved biological sister who is jubilant about their reunion and she already knows that God saved him that day in the river to deliver them out of slavery. As they're conversing they see the Pharaoh's boat floating in the river and Moses goes to the bank to ask him for freedom of his people. Rameses becomes quickly angered and orders his guards to take Moses captive, who then jump out of the boat into the water to seize him. With God's help, Moses uses his staff to turn the river into blood. The guards became so terrified that they quickly retreat and run quickly to jump back on to the boat. Moses then travels through the town and runs into his biological sister who tells him that he is a Hebrew. At first Moses does not believes her, but then he returns to the palace, finds his mother and she tells him the truth about his heritage. This upsets Moses because the life that he has grown up knowing, no longer feels like the one in which he belongs. He begins to feel sympathetic for the enslaved Hebrews, and ends up killing a guard for needless whipping of an old Hebrew man. After this, Moses feels he must leave Egypt, even though his brother tells him that he will eradicate him of this crime. He leaves town and wanders through the desert until eventually he comes to the home of The High Priest of Meridian. He marries the priest's daughter and learns how to live life as a common shepherd. Through this he discovers that he loves this new life through heaven's eyes. One day, chasing a sheep he comes unto a cave in which he finds a holy fire that does not burn him. He hears a voice calling his name, and inquires who is speaking, and God speaks to him telling him "I am who I am". God then tells Moses that he has seen oppression in Egypt and that Moses is the one who will deliver the Hebrews from slavery. Moses is doubtful that he can handle this task, but God commands him and tells him that he is the chosen deliverer. Moses is skeptical about people believing his word, so he is given a staff, which will serve as a sign for those who do not believe Moses then travels back to Egypt to deliver the Hebrews out of Egypt. When he first goes into the palace to confront Pharaoh about freeing his people, he finds that the man who he knew as his father grow
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Approximate Pages = 7 (250 words per page double spaced)
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