Ben-Hur

Criticizing the classics, has withstood a long test of time - a thankless task and doomed to failure. Indeed, what can be said about "War and Peace Tolstoy, for example, but rave reviews? "Ben-Hur" - one of the greatest films of world cinema in general, one of the most titled and most widely recognized throughout the world. Which has been included in all textbooks on the film which won even recreate scenes from it in museums, production, equal to which is definitely not to be - today, no one will use 100,000 of extras on the extras - all makes computer ... And yet, I venture to make a number of arguments against the picture - time, gentlemen, ruthless thing. By today's standards - laced (almost 4 hours not stand each), overly pretentious and theatrical, factitiously dramatic, in some points, staging. In 1959 it was an absolute breakthrough. Today, for many - but the history of cinema, which is quite difficult to watch from the beginning. But even in 2001 "Ben-Hur" outshines its scope all these shortcomings. Gradually vplyv in an unhurried mood of the picture, you're just preoccupied with avalanche of emotions and events that you splash out on the director. Epic horrendous, monstrous scale, some sort granite boulder, rock ... affecting tens of human destinies, describing the whole stratum of time - there are no words to describe it. Fans will find the drama in the film story of the impermanence of human life, . who lost everything and who found all, . fans of adventure and action movie - a battle and chariot races (a recognized standard of the genre), while you open and the history of Jesus - not for nothing, . second name of the product - "History of Christ" ..,
. This - Classic. Absolute and immutable.