Today I am going to explain a 2014 Adventure Action film called Exodus Gods and Kings.

Today I am going to explain a 2014 Adventure Action film called Exodus Gods and Kings.

Ancient Egypt, 1300 BC, For 400 years, the Hebrews  have been slaves to Egypt. Egypt’s statuestha cities, and glory all of it were built by the  Hebrews. In all the time that they have been suffering under the hands of the Egyptians,  they have never forgotten their homeland, and have always prayed to get back home.  Just like they never forgot their homeland, the Hebrews never forgot their God  either. And God has not forgotten them. 

The opening scene of the film sees a man named  Moses sitting among the generals in Memphis, the palace of the Pharaoh. A meeting was  taking place regarding the Hittite Army, which was camping outside Kadesh. Worried about the  Hittite Army attacking the palace, the Pharaoh, Seti the First, told the generals to huddle  together as he told them what to do. Afterward,  

Seti consulted the High Priestess, who then  divined a prophecy from the entrails of a bird.  

The High Priestess then states that the victor in  the preemptive attack against the Hittite Army is unclear, but from what she has divined, a leader  will be saved during the battle, and the savior of said leader will someday lead. Moses laughed  it off, as he did not really believe in Omens.  

Seti drinks the blood of the bird and prays to  the gods for a victory against the Hittite Army. 

Before they go into battle, Seti opens a box  that contains two swords with scabbards that are made of gold and ivory. Seti gave the prince,  Rameses, and Moses each other’s swords as a symbol that Moses and Rameses, who grew up close  as real brothers, would keep each other safe  no matter what. Moses and Rameses then set out  with their army to fight against the Hittites.  

They attacked the Hittite Army suddenly, taking  them by surprise, but it wasn’t long before the Hittites started putting on a fight. Moses  bravely fought against the Hittites. Meanwhile, the Chariot Rameses was on got destroyed  by the Hittites, and he fell to the ground. 

Just as Rameses was about to get trampled on  by an incoming Hittite Chariot, Moses saved him by throwing a spear at the chariot’s wheel,  causing it to flip over. Because of what happened,Rameses was frozen in place. Seeing as  Rameses wasn’t in the state to fight anymore, Moses ordered everyone to fall back and take  Rameses home. The Pharaoh learned of what occurred in the battle, and he admitted  to Moses that he did not trust Rameses, his own son, to lead. During another meeting,  the Pharaoh ordered Rameses to go to Piethom, a place where the Hebrew slaves were  working. Rameses is to meet with the viceroy, look around Piethom, and make a report. Later that night, Moses approached Rameses and offered to go to Piethom in Rameses’ stead,  knowing that the prince doesn’t like the idea of going to the slaves’ places as it is beneath him. The next day, Moses went to Piethom and talked with the viceroy. Moses is upset that while the  slaves are miserable, the viceroy is living too lavishly. Moses decides to talk with the elders  of the slaves. He asked the elders about the God they believed in, believing that the Hebrews’  belief in God would someday make them revolt against the Pharaoh. Moses asked Nun, one of the  elders, to come near him and ask him for his name.  

Moses then told Nun his own name  before allowing the elders to leave. 

After looking around Piethom, Moses moved to  go back to the viceroy when he was approached by one of the slaves, who told him that the  elder wanted to meet with Moses in the prayer house. Moses went back to the viceroy and told  him to stop living like a king. That night, he went to the prayer house and met up with the  elder Nun, who told Moses that he was a Hebrew.  

There was an edict from Memphis to kill all  the first sons of the Hebrews. To save Moses, his parents handed him to his sister, who put  him in a basket and took him to the river banks. 

His sister let him float towards the  part of the river where she knew Bithia, Pharaoh Paramessee's daughter, bathed. Bithia  adopted Moses and treated him like her own. Moses refused to believe what Nun told him and left. Unbeknownst to him, two of the slaves who were there in the prayer house that night were  actually traitors, and reported what they learned about Moses to the Viceroy. When Moses returned to Memphis, he saw the Pharaoh lying weakly in bed with  several physicians in the room. Seti ordered everyone in the room to leave except for Moses and  Rameses, who stood back, silently watching them. Moses sat beside Seti and held his hand  until the Pharaoh took his last breath. After the death of Seti the First, Rameses became  the next pharaoh, and Moses became his Chief Advisor. The Viceroy visited Memphis to talk with  Rameses. Moses tried to get the viceroy escorted away, but Rameses let the viceroy in and ordered  everyone, including Moses, to leave. That’s when Rameses learned that Moses was a Hebrew. That  night, while he was eating, he was approached by Moses. Rameses told Moses about what the viceroy  told him, and the two of them just laughed it off. But Rameses was already having doubts, so  he summoned Bithia, Moses’ mother, and Miriam, Moses’ sister. He asked Miriam if Moses really  was a Hebrew, and when Miriam refused to answer, Rameses swung his sword to cut off her arm, but  Moses blocked it. Despite not believing that he was one, Moses still forcibly admitted that he  was a Hebrew to protect Miriam. Because of this,  

Rameses, who was forlorn about his new discovery,  exiled Moses and sent him into the desert.  

Rameses’ mother, Tuya, wanted Rameses to kill  Moses as she had always wanted to be rid of Moses,  

but Rameses refused, stating that Mason would die  anyway once he got exiled as there was just no way of surviving out there in the desert alone. Before  he officially became an exile, Moses requested to talk to his mother and sister for the last time. Bithia revealed that Moses is indeed a Hebrew, and Miriam gave Moses the ring he was wearing  when he was still an infant. Afterward, Moses began traveling through the desert  with nothing but a horse to ride on. 

One day, while he was resting, he noticed a sword  hidden inside the saddle. He was confused as he took it and realized it was the other sword gifted  to him by Seti. Moses continued traveling through the desert until his horse died days later as it  had nothing to eat or drink. While he was sleeping beside his dead horse, two assassins came to  execute him, but Moses killed them instead. 

He then took their belongings as well as their  horses. Moses traveled once more until he came upon multiple people gathering around a well.  There he met Zipporah, who took him to Midian, where he stayed for a while. Moses and Zipporah  fell in love with each other and married. Nine years later, Moses and Zipporah now have a child  they named Gershom. As the two of them were bonding together, Gershom told his father about  Mount Sinai, which is known to be God’s Mountain.  

Moses, who had a different belief from Zipporah,  has always found it funny how the Hebrews and his wife seemed to be so convinced that God is real.  Later that night, a few sheep escaped and went up the mountains. Moses started climbing after  them while it was raining heavily. Suddenly, a landslide occurred, and Moses fell unconscious  as he got buried deep in the mud with only his face visible. When he woke up, he witnessed  the occurrence of the burning bush, wherein the bush was on fire but was not burning up at all. Then God showed up in front of Moses in the form of a young boy called Malak. Through Malak, God  tells Moses that He wants him to be a general who will fight against Rameses to protect the Hebrews  and lead them to Canaan. After their talk, Malak suddenly disappeared, and Moses was taken back to  his home to recover. Due to what happened on Mount Sinai, Moses seemed to have gotten into a panic. He told Zipporah about what happened, but Zipporah thought that Moses was just hallucinating because  of what happened to him. Unbeknownst to Zipporah, Moses wasn’t just hallucinating; that was him  starting to believe that God was really real. 

Once he was well rested, Moses decided to go to  Piethom to see the Hebrews. Zipporah and Gershom were unhappy about this decision of his but  couldn’t do anything but let him leave. When Moses reached Piethom, he was maddened at the sight of  the Hebrews suffering even more than they did nine years ago. Moses visited Rameses, and discovered  that Rameses was the one who bundled Moses’ sword in the latter’s saddle before he got expelled from  Memphis. It was so Moses can protect himself from the assassins that Tuya sent to kill Moses.  Moses then told Rameses to either give rights to the Hebrews or set them free. Moses decided  to just leave when Rameses refused to do so.  

The next day, Rameses sent out an order to  kill Moses and his family, and whoever Hebrew refuses to confess where Moses was, would be  sentenced to death in front of the other Hebrews. 

However, the Hebrews did not falter. On the  contrary, they only grew angrier every time a new Hebrew family got hanged to death.  Moses trained the Hebrews in Egypt and instructed them to prepare weapons for  their rebellion against the Pharaoh.  

The Hebrews targeted the Egyptians. They stole  the Egyptians’ food, burned down the boats, caused fire in the city, and more. Moses planned this  so the Egyptians would demand the Pharaoh cast the Hebrews out, and the Pharaoh is most likely  to listen to the demands of his Egyptian people. 

But God didn’t like Moses’ method, as it  would take him years to save the Hebrews from the Egyptians and lead them to Canaan.  So God told Moses to just watch in the meantime as He unleashed the ten plagues. In the First Plague, crocodiles have begun to thrash around wildly, murdering people and  smearing the water with their blood. Every body of water in Egypt, including ponds, canals, streams,  and the Nile River, turned to blood, killing all the fish and leaving behind a foul odor. In the Second Plague, due to the foul water, frogs left the river and went to land, entering houses  and covering the ground with their little bodies. 

In the Third plague, the frogs have also  died. Due to all the dead fish and frogs, the city became infested with maggots and  gnats, tormenting everyone in the land of Egypt. 

In the fourth plague, the city was still  swarming with flies and swarms. Because of this, the Egyptians became infected with a skin disease. In the fifth plague, the Egyptians’ livestock the horses, donkeys, cattle, camels,  oxen, and sheep—started dying. 

In the sixth plague, boils started breaking out  in sores on every human in the land of Egypt. 

In the seventh plague: the whole city was struck  by a strong hailstorm. The eight plagues,after the hailstorm, the land was covered with locusts. In the ninth plague, darkness loomed over the whole land for three days. All these nine plagues tormented the Egyptians, and instead of giving up, Rameses  even threatened God by declaring himself a god. God heard his threat and decided to unleash  the tenth plague. Moses told the Hebrews to paint their doorways with the blood of a sacrificial  goat to save themselves from the tenth plague.  

The 10th plague was unleashed, darkness  engulfed the whole city and killed all the firstborns of the Egyptians, including Rameses,  who was devastated because of his son’s death. 

When it was all over, Rameses and his  troops went to where the Hebrews were.  

Rameses was angry at Moses’ God for killing the  children, but Moses told him that no Hebrew child died during the tenth plague. In disbelief,  Rameses told the Hebrews to leave Egypt. 

Unbeknownst to the Hebrews, Rameses was planning  on pursuing and slaughtering all of them.  

When he learned of the Egyptians pursuing  them, Moses decided to take the route to the mountains to make it harder for Rameses  to get to them. He asked God for guidance, but God wasn’t answering him. The Hebrews reached  a dead end when they stopped in front of the sea.  

That night, Moses apologized for not trusting  God and rebuked Him. Moses threw his sword into the Ocean and tried to go to sleep. But something  was bothering him so he looked towards the sea. 

The next day, he noticed his sword sticking out of  the water. He took it and realized that the tide was so low that they would be able to cross  the sea now. He ordered everyone to prepare themselves, as they were going to cross the sea.  The Hebrews refused as the current was strong, but Moses assured them that they would  not be afraid as God was with them. 

The Hebrews hurried to gather their things and  started forming groups. They started crossing the sea as the water kept decreasing the more  they walked. Meanwhile, Rameses still rode his horses and chariots to the mountain, which  caused a lot of his men to fall to their deaths, resulting in a landslide. Later on, they  reached the sea and saw the Hebrews crossing it.  

The Hebrews saw the Egyptians, and Moses told  them to run towards the land. The Hebrews did as they were told, while Moses and some of his  brethren stayed behind. Rameses’ army screamed as they rushed towards the Hebrews, but seeing  the ocean drawing nearer and nearer to them, Rameses’ men started falling back, and only  Rameses was left going after the Hebrews.  

Moses told his brethren to go without him as  he urged his horse to run towards Rameses.  

The Hebrews finally got on land, and the parted  sea finally closed, drowning the Egyptian Army.  

Both Moses and Rameses survived, but  while Moses was met with his people, Rameses was met with the sight of his dead army.  It was only then that Rameses accepted defeat. 

Moses took the Hebrews to Midian, where he  reunited with his family. Later that night, while the Hebrews were celebrating, Moses went  up Mount Sinai, the God’s Mountain, where he was told by God to carve out the Ten Commandments on  two stone slabs. The ending scene of the film sees the now-older Moses riding on a carriage with  the two stone labs where the ten commandments were written. He sees God’s young son walking  alongside the Hebrews on their journey to Canaan.