As a theological film under the guise of a historical war film, Ben-Hur does not tell the story of Christmas and crucifixion from the perspective of Jesus, but tells the suffering and redemption of Jesus for mankind from Ben-Hur's crucifixion and redemption.
The image of Jesus is always in the back, in the distance, and even in artificial black mosaics. The director cannot identify Jesus with a face. This may show the director's humility or keep it mysterious. In short, this one seems ingenious.
The film tells the history of the Jews before they were expelled by the Romans. The Jews escaped from the slave rule of Egypt for 400 years and had to be colonized by Roman authoritarianism. In the United States in 2010, that is, the Jews were massacred by the Nazis for more than ten years, this seems to be a historical repetition of the Jewish people's national suffering.
Perhaps it was this historical repetition that allowed the rise of the Zionist movement, which had a profound impact in the United States, and thus pushed the United Nations to agree to the establishment of a state by the Israelis in Palestine. Thousands of years ago, the Jews went from being afraid, enslaved, and massacred to now, no longer afraid, no longer compromise, no longer superstitious political negotiation, because they believe that weakness cannot be exchanged for freedom, but ultimately resorted to force and violence, Therefore, it has never been soft on Arab countries.
The Jewish state of Israel eventually took the land of the Palestinians. However, it was the Egyptians who oppressed them and the Romans who drove them away, not the Palestinians, but they repeated the mistakes of history and drove out the Palestinians. History is always strikingly similar. Those who were once oppressed became oppressors and built their happiness on the basis of oppressing other peoples. This is full of historical irony.
Ben-Hur movies are well-made and can be called masterpieces, the richness of the holy city of Jerusalem, the scenes of Christmas and the Passion, the lovely close-up of Arabian horses, the tragic portrayal of sea battles in the Mediterranean and the death row prisoners, the thrilling horse races of the ancient Roman Hippodrome, ancient Rome The military parade in the capital, the terrifying leprosy disease, etc., shaped the success and presented an epic picture spanning two thousand years. .
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