Caddickisms

On further reflection there is one more thing I want to say about The Prince Of Egypt. The second trailer (included on the DVD) paints the film as a “triumph of the power of the human spirit”. In other words, they’re saying this movie shows how humans can do amazing things when they put their minds to it.

That’s just wrong.

Don’t get me wrong, here… I fully believe that humans can do amazing things when we put our minds to it. Phenomenal stuff. My issue is that this movie has absolutely nothing to do with that. This movie is all about Moses putting himself aside and completely trusting God to fulfill His promise to deliver Israel. This is an oversimplification, but Moses was little more than God’s mouthpiece. He wielded no power of his own, but rather God used him to show His own power. To use just one example, Moses walked into the water and put a stick in it - God created a dry path through a sea. Without God, Moses just had a wet stick.

It kinda bothers me that the message of the marketing would run counter to the message of the film, but I guess that’s Hollywood.

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