The freshman forgot what the teacher played this film in class for everyone to enjoy, and I revisited it today, the picture and soundtrack are still so shocking. I was taken aback when I saw the year of creation in 1998. The production level 20 years ago was actually better than most domestic animations now. I deeply admire the production and development of domestic animation. Heartache of not being steel.
The whole film has a musical taste. The segment that impressed me the most was the beginning of the Egyptian enslavement of the Hebrews and Moses being sent away by his mother. The rhythm of the music and every movement and every psychology of the characters The activities are so fit, the right tension and the relaxation and ups and downs, with the dramatic light and shadow composition, it is easy for the audience to enter the atmosphere of the story from the beginning.
I think the composition of the picture above is very delicate. The slaves worked hard under the statue of Pharaoh. The huge and majestic eyes of the statue looked at these slaves who worked hard to build it indifferently, highlighting this kind of emperor and The sense of distance between slaves. Then an Egyptian with the appearance of a leader entered the picture. His head overlapped with the Pharaoh’s head. He was angrily urging the slaves. In this picture, the Egyptian image is huge and full of power while the slaves look like that. The weakness and exhaustion of the two sides once again highlighted the opposition between the two parties' identities.
The segment of Moses’s dream uses a moving mural to distinguish reality from dreams, and then echoes the mural where Moses discovered that Pharaoh killed the Hebrews. In the end, this mural also metaphors the death of Ramses’ eldest son. This mural has undertaken two major turning points in the whole story. One is the break between Moses and the Egyptian royal family, and the other is the break between Moses and his brother.
Although they are all in the same scene, the art of the film expresses different points through the light: when Moses first discovered this mural, the light can see the complete story of the entire mural, from the fingers of the pharaoh to the child in his hands. The last place where the soldiers had the brightest light fell among the children who were thrown into the bottom of the sea. The light illuminated the entire process of violence, and Moses learned the truth. When Moses stood in front of this picture for the second time, the light could only shine as far as the soldiers threw the children into the sea, and the brightest place was on the eldest son of Ramses. The light illuminates all the children who were killed. , The eldest son was standing at the bottom of these children's falling, and the torch in his hand flickered slightly, as if the last moment before the meteor fell.
There are so many wonderful scenes in the whole film. I personally think that the film's attainments in music and art are higher than the plot.
Maybe because the social environment in which I live brings me values that are different from all the values in the environment of the story, I really can’t understand why God has such a great ability to hurt so many innocent people to "shock" them. People, instead of directly saving their own people.
Why use one mistake to correct another mistake? Those Egyptian children are also innocent people who have done nothing. Should they die? God keeps talking about life and freedom. Isn't the life of the Egyptians not life, and the freedom of the Egyptians not freedom? I haven’t read the Bible carefully and I don’t know what the accurate story looks like. But in this story, God did not treat people as independent individuals after all. God’s subconscious thought that the people of Egypt were Pharaoh’s possessions, so To persecute the Pharaoh to release people through threats and destruction, I can't see any difference between such behavior and the Pharaoh they hate.
Although the values are different, there is no denying that this is a good film. Looking at the beautiful pictures and the beautiful songs, I still can't help but give this film 5 stars.
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