This Review Reveals Minor Details About the Plot.
Wondering About a Wonder Of the World
Plot Overview
Ken Klein at 61 narrates that a seemingly
divine intervention in his 49ers career—knee
injury—diverted him to study the Great Pyramid of Giza. This is the
second of a three-part series chronicling:
- Setup
- Complication
- Resolution
Historically, ancient Egypt was a culture of death, afterlife, and immortality, much as one might categorize the baby-boomers in the 60's as addicted to drugs, sex and rock 'n' roll. A modern example might be taken from an Oskar Graf biographical novel:
“I thought I was dying and fell asleep. I think how nice it will be in eternity, what God looks like, and things that are going to happen. And I pant heavily again. I think of my dear dead father, what it'll be like at home now and then say, ‘Oh, well! it'll be as it is! Oh God! It's just dumb that everything goes so fast’—and that was the end.”Everyone listened in silence.
“And now our men find me and take me away from this frozen field and I open my eyes. Everything hurts more than before and I think, ‘Is this awful, here in Eternity! Just like on earth. Oh, my! God has a beard like any other person. What did I die for anyway?’ Now all of a sudden I notice that I'm alive and that the fellow is an old doctor and when I get that swallow of rum, right away, I felt better than I ever had before. ‘God!’ I says, ‘A man can stand anything; it sure is nice in the world, awful nice!’” (175–6)
Contrary to a near universal assumption and some hokey archaeology, though, the pyramids, and especially the great one, were not used to entomb the pharaohs; that would have been sacrilege.
Here we are told the Great Pyramid
was constructed mathematically, geometrically,
and celestially. It sits as a mute monument to a much earlier
enlightenment that today's flocks of tourists are oblivious to. We
may learn more in the rest of the series.
Ideology
The movie displays, (Rev. 12:7-8—NKJV) “And war broke out in heaven; Michael and his angels fought with the dragon, and the dragon and his angels fought, but they did not prevail, nor was a place found for them in heaven any longer.” The host remarks that the pyramid might actually be pointing to the spot where this occurs. I'm waiting for the news from our local U of O Observatory if they discover it.
The dynamic graphics illustrating the construction of the pyramid
if scaled down could in a small potatoes way be a woodshop
project a kid could undertake with his dad. Of course the
great pyramid isn't called GREAT for nothing and would be beyond
their scope if not humanly impossible.
This is similar to a raconteur in, (Prov. 30:1) “The words of Agur the son of Jakeh, even the prophecy: the man spake unto Ithiel, even unto Ithiel and Ucal.” He acknowledges his limitations both human and divine: (Prov. 30:2-3) “Surely I am more brutish than any man, and have not the understanding of a man. I neither learned wisdom, nor have the knowledge of the holy.” And he points out that is the estate of all his contemporaries, (Prov. 30:4) “Who hath ascended up into heaven, or descended? who hath gathered the wind in his fists? who hath bound the waters in a garment? who hath established all the ends of the earth? what is his name, and what is his son's name, if thou canst tell?” Agur goes on to fill a whole chapter 30 with some life lessons, just as this documentary fills us in on some basics of the pyramid's construction.
Production Values
“” (2008) was directed and produced by its host Ken Klein. He's had fifteen years of movie-making experience and does a credible job on this one. The documentary is narrated by someone who is passionate about his subject, and it shows. A clever device he used was to incorporate a lot of movement of various vehicles to offset the rock of the pyramid that just squats there. It's rated G, the spooky lights in the sky of old paintings being hard to make out. It's available to stream on the production website.
Review Conclusion w/a Christian's Recommendation
This documentary pretty much avoided being boring. Not a lot of action, but that can't be helped. Tickles one's curiosity.
Movie Ratings
Action factor: No high action, sedate adventure. Suitability for children: Suitable for all ages. Special effects: Well done special effects. Video Occasion: For special interest viewers. Suspense: Not suspenseful at all. Overall movie rating: Three stars out of five.
Works Cited
Unless otherwise indicated, Scripture was cited from the King James Version, Pub. 1611, rev. 1769. Software.
Scripture quotation marked NKJV is from the New King James Version, Copyright © 1979 by Thomas Nelson, Inc. Print.
Graf, Oskar Maria. The Life Of My Mother. Copyright, 1940, by Oskar Maria Graf. New York: Howell, Soskin & Co., 1940. Print.
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