November 11, 2002
The Ten Commandments
I don't know why I love movies so much. But I still remember well when I saw my first movie when I still in elementary school, this is may be the first sight which then take me loves with movies. At that day, my dad take me to the town after school, i was happy by this. Going to town for every village children mean more than vacations, it's a freedom, it's a journey to look another world that typically more modern, more civilised, more busy than our little village. Surprisingly, my dad take me to the cinema because there played The Ten Commandments (1956). Just knowing how my dad is moviegoers at his young, I was lovely to enter the darkness of the cinema. And, it's just Rp. 300 at that time (probably US$ 0.1 if compared). It was a great experience in all my life.
My dad said, he has seen this movies several years ago at his high school. He said this is a great movies. He decided to take his boy, and give the same experience of him. Nicely, it's really great movie, I very loved dad by this. The story is about Moses, the Prophet of Hebrew and also known as Musa in Islamic history. Luckily, yesterday i found a new reproduced VCD of this movies at local stores. I think it's great to recall the great experience on my own life, it's inspiring though.
To escape the edict of Egypt's Pharoah, Rameses I, condemning all first-born Hebrew males, the infant Moses is set adrift on the Nile in a reed basket. Saved by the pharaoh's daughter Bithiah, he is adopted by her and brought up in the court of her brother, Pharaoh Seti. Moses gains Seti's favor and the love of the throne princess Nefertiri, as well as the hatred of Seti's son, Rameses. When his Hebrew heritage is revealed, Moses is cast out of Egypt, and makes his way across the desert where he marries, has a son and is commanded by God to return to Egypt to free the Hebrews from slavery. In Egypt Moses's fiercest enemy proves to be not Rameses, but someone near to him who can 'harden his heart'.
Posted at November 11, 2002 03:29 PM | Movies
