Monday, January 12, 2009

Ben-Hur: Reflections of Culture-Ending

Today we had finished the movie, Ben-Hur. The most excited and the part that interested me a lot was the chariot race. Chariot race is a race that people ride on a cart thing, and there are four horses in front of the cart to pull the cart. It is kind of a violent game, because you never know whether your cart will collapse or maybe you might flip out. When you fell off your cart, you might get squeezed or smashed by other cart too. The game starts with riders riding slowly around the court few laps, and the competitors will be lead by five riders. Four leading riders in a row, one in the front, and each of them has a flag on their hand. The riders wears special clothes, they have some protection on their body. They have metal thing on their wrist, they wear helmets on their head, and they also have different color long cape. The leader give a speech before the game, and then when he gave a sign, the game will starts. The riders has to race for 6 laps, and if they flip out, then they loose. Ben-Hur had 4 of his horses white, and it shows that he is the nice guy. Massala had 4 of his horses black, and he was wearing a black cape too, it shows that he is a harsh, evil person. He also had a sharp thing on his wheel, so he could poke others' wheel, and they will flip off. At the end, Ben-Hur wins, and he killed Massala(I guess). The story ends up with Jesus had been killed by the empire I think, because he had turn people into Christen we say now. People believe that Jesus' blood washes off people's mistakes and disease, so Ben-Hur's mother and sister was healthy again, no libersy(I don't know how to spell it). Jesus died, and later on people said that he was re-birth again.

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