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Has the Darkness Made You See the Light?
theangryvillageidiot - wrote on 09/03/21
I love the almost Elizabethan language, and how it’s more romantic than the classical narrative.
In one of the film’s many dramatic lines, after the plague of darkness, immediately before the death of the first-born, Moses confronts Pharaoh and says (something like), Have the days of darkness made you see the light? He hasn’t, of course, so the plot progresses, but it’s a striking question.
In this life there is darkness, but the darkness which concerns us most (properly speaking) is within. We say with our actions that we do not know God when we do not let the people go. In the face of this inner darkness God sends outer darkness, plagues that disorder our kingdom. This is a service for which few give thanks. And yet to give thanks is our bounden duty; he sends the darkness not to blind us, but so that we might see again the light we never noticed before.
