The Prince of Egypt

One of my favorite movies of all time is The Prince of Egypt. It is an animated movie that tells the story of Moses and the exodus from Egypt. The vivid images and the directors choice of words and scence structure paint a beautiful picture that leaves the audience or at least left me on the edge of my seat and at some points in tears. If I were to tell the plot of the movie I would begin at the beginngin of the movie when Moses mother, in a desperate effort to protect her son from the pharaoh who was throwing male babies in the river to fed to the alligators, flees to nearest stream and prays that God will protect her child and send him to a place that is safer then the environment she can provide for him. She sings an angelic song about how young Moses will always remember his mother when he dreams, which he later does. She sends him off down the stream, and hers prayers are answered. The boy ends up in floating to a house of royalty. The basket his mother had placed him in floats right to the Pharaohs wife and she decides to take the Moses in and care for her as her own. Now adopted, Moses unknowingly grows up as the son of the very man who put all of the Egyptian babies to death; the one almost killed Moses if it had not been for his mother’s love to protect him. For years he lives a royal life and watches as those who are born into slavery suffer and are mistreated. One day he accidentally kills a man protecting a slave and decides that the treatment of his people is enough. He then runs away from his royal home and later learns that he has a biological sister and brothers are slaves that live not too far from where he grew up. He is angered that he never knew of them and at first resents them. He hears a message from God that tells him to lead his people out of Egypt and into the promise land. He does as he is told and is met with adversity when he must face the man he grew up calling his brother, who became Pharaoh. He wants his “brother” but he does not listen and Moses goes on as God instructed him, and God deals with the Pharaoh and his family. Moses and the people of Egypt travel for years to the promise land and finally make it. They are all tested and some grow in greater love for God for bringing them for where they once were.