There is a movie worth covering for this blog that has John Nobel in it. It is about Esther from the bible and has a lot to it. I might as well put it in this blog when I watch it again. So without further ado, it is time for this review.
We begin with the start of the tale being over 500 years ago. That is an event that was sent into motion. It left some people wanting to get revenge on the Jews by killing them. That man who would be set to do that was named Haman.
But the main character of this movie is called Hadisah. She snoops in on the king’s meeting where his wife, Queen Veshibee, did not appear before him, having her own separate feast. At the urging of the character that John Nobel played, among others, this queen is deposed of, to speak, and a new queen is sought to be found in her stead.
Many women are gathered. Mordici, the uncle of Hadisah, says that she should change her name to Esther, which is a good, Babylonian name. She is taken in the night with many others to be a potential queen candidate. She tries to claim the others down that she is with.
It is during this time that she reads a report to this king during the night. She stops covering that at one point to instead tell the story of Jacob and how he wound up married to the wrong person, but ends up getting together with the right one as well. She also learns the protocol of how one should appear before the king in question. If she doesn’t appear without a summon, she could be killed.
After rejecting many of the women for various reasons, the king actually likes Esther’s simpleness and they wind up getting married. Her uncle visits and she is able to maintain some of her cover still despite him talking about it openly in front of them.
A rival leader was upset that a particular queen wasn’t chosen from. Two of his people talk about how they should have poisoned the king. He thinks that they should still try to do this. However, Mordici learns of this plan and is able to thwart it as a result.
In the meantime, Haman is up to his evil ways. He makes a speech about how the Jews are evil in his mind and should be taken out, the likes of which could have likely inspired Hitler. He arranges for what seems to be an attempted assassination of some people by “Jews” that he seemingly thwarts. As for his attempts to get rid of the Jews and Mordici, they can be described as this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GFSCsNABVE
Mordici refuses to bow before Haman. Mordici only bows before his king or God. Haman still plots the extinction of the Jews. Before he can, the king has a request of someone who needs to be honored. Haman thinks that the request is about him. He requests something extravagant. He learns that he is to do it for Mordici himself.
Mordici sends a message to Esther about how best to proceed. He insists that she must act or else God will ensure that someone else will rescue them instead. Esther breaks protocol by going in front of the king without being summoned. She is shown mercy and isn’t killed. She doesn’t want to make this case in front of the large crowd. She instead summons just the king and Haman to a private dinner.
At this dinner, she confronts Haman about his plans of killing Mordici and the Jews. She reveals that she is a Jew herself and puts a symbol which shows the star of David to others. Haman claims to see nothing and prepares to kill her when left alone with her. But the king returns to hang Haman instead. The people are then saved with Mordici made a new prince and a happy ending for them.
First off, I’d like to apologize because I wasn’t writing this post as well as I could have. I didn’t even have my laptop on and writing notes to the side at some points so I may have missed important things in the movie as a result.
Now I’d like to talk some about the embellishments in this movie versus what’s in the bible. It seems to work okay for this movie even as it seems to contradict some of the parts of the book of Esther. But it works for the most part and has its own way of handling things, trying to address certain issues that you wouldn’t otherwise see explained in just the bible alone. I still recommend reading the book to get the official story and just hope that it works well despite these additions.
Overall, the movie is pretty good, even though my copy of it has issues with skipping that will hopefully since it would be nice and then it would work well. I hope that you understand the point that I was making even as the previous sentence may not make sense. The movie is worth a watch and hopefully works out well for you if you can see it. For now, this is Adam Decker, signing off.
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