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The Young Messiah (2016)

PG-13 | | Drama | 11 March 2016 (USA)
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Tells the story of Jesus Christ at age seven as he and his family depart Egypt to return home to Nazareth. Told from his childhood perspective, it follows young Jesus as he grows into his religious identity.

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At the age of 7, Jesus Bar-Joseph lives with his family in Alexandria, Egypt, where they have fled to avoid a massacre of children by King Herod of Israel. Jesus knows that his parents Joseph and Mary have secrets they are keeping from him, secrets about his birth and about traits that make him very different from other boys. His parents, however, believe him too young to grasp the truth of his miraculous birth and purpose. Learning that the murderous Herod is dead, they set out to return to their home of Nazareth in Israel, unaware that Herod's namesake son is, like his father, determined to see the boy Jesus dead. Written by Jim Beaver <jumblejim@prodigy.net>

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In The Bible, Jesus did not perform any miracles until his adulthood when he resided in Nazareth. His first miracle was transforming water into wine for a wedding feast. See more »

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The Young Messiah
21 March 2016 | by (Canada) – See all my reviews

On seeing the new film, The Young Messiah about Jesus's life as a child, there is a couple of things that I had to keep in mind before I saw the film and afterwards too. I think these same points will be helpful for those who go to see the film as well. First off being the fact that in the four gospel accounts of Christ's life, there is really not too much mentioned about his childhood. Most of the information that the Bible gives us about his early life is related to his birth and the nativity story which most Christians, or people in general will know fairly well especially around Christmastime. The other events of his early life such as we read about how Mary and Joseph bring the child to Jerusalem, to present him to God, and we read that in Jerusalem there was a man named Simeon, who was just and devout and who was waiting for the consolation of Israel and he had the Holy Spirit upon him. After having a revelation about him not seeing his own death before he saw the Lord's Christ, he blessed the infant Jesus and also told Mary that this child would be the fall and rising of many in Israel and even knew then how Jesus would eventually die and suffer for sins (although Mary and Joseph perhaps did not understand that at the time). This was all as he was still an infant and the only account of him being of advanced age is when Mary and Joseph accidentally leave him behind at the temple and the many teachers and rulers of the law were astounded by his knowledge and understanding of the scriptures. That was when he was twelve years old and that is as young as we get, or the only instant of him as a child growing up other than being an infant (you may also want to consider the nativity story itself as well as Anna the prophetess being in a similar situation as Simeon and being completely overjoyed by his birth). That is more, or less what the Bible and the gospels tell of his infancy and childhood. Another thing to keep in mind is that The Young Messiah, is based upon a novel by Anne Rice. This is the same Anne Rice, who gave us Interview with the Vampire and Exit to Eden, so we know she has a creative imagination, but could she give us a Biblically inspired film that for the most part would take a great deal of creative liberty because of the facts stated above that we really do not have that information present to us. Could she successfully translate and make a story and now a film about it? The answer is a surprising yes, but when I say that you have to keep a couple of things in mind. The film takes a lot of liberties and there is probably more in this film that is unBiblical as opposed to true. Also the Catholic doctrine plays heavily into this film and if you are from another denomination your views, or opinions of the film will tend to be in jeopardy perhaps. There is also crucial things such as most of the actors do not look like they come from Jerusalem, or are from that part of the world and also many of these actors seem to speak with a British accent which will not win everybody over either. The film as it stands is more of a thought provoking piece and more, or less an interesting piece of fiction for the most part that takes well known beliefs and events and puts an author's creative spin on it. For the most part the film manages to make you look at things in other ways (which sometimes may be good and bad), but also manages to entertain and move you at the same time. This will probably not go down as one of the best Biblical films ever made, but for what it is, it is generally well made and I think that the film does force you to confront what you believe and generally embrace your beliefs which is a strong point to the film and while I do not think that it is the type of film to convert any unbelievers, I do feel that it will have you thinking and generally it is a moving if altogether pleasant film that is probably a lot better than you would anticipate, but at the same time not an accurate film that you would show to your Bible study group either.


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