Magnificent and colossal film that marked the history of the seventh art, one of those titanic works with a huge waste of talent and money, rarely has a film achieved 11 statuettes from the Hollywood Academy. Based on the work of Lew Wallance "Benhur, a history of Christ" 1885, a bestseller, knew how to connect with the soul of the American people, three years after its publication it was already the best-selling book after the Bible.
The drama of Judah, Ben-Hur, a Jewish prince who lives at the same time as Jesus Christ, narrates the betrayal he suffers at the hands of his best friend, who, moved by greed and envy, does not hesitate to accuse and hand over his family to the Roman authorities and is banished and sentenced to work in the Roman galleys. It will be the hatred and the thirst for revenge that will keep him alive, when these feelings take over a person they keep him in a state of survival for the desire to be able to get rid of them and unload them on his victims and if they are not cured they end up destroying to the person himself. There is only one cure against these feelings, since we move in opposite polarities, the opposite extreme is love and forgiveness, easy to pronounce and difficult to practice. Our protagonist who crosses his path with the great teacher of these teachings, will achieve through his example, in his crucifixion and in his prayer "Father forgive them for they do not know what they do" find his own redemption and salvation and when this occurs in the depths of his heart and manages to get rid of that hatred, the signs that had been introduced in the work as a metaphor will also disappear, that leprosy suffered by his mother and sister as a reflection of that horrible feeling that nested in his heart .
The story of Judah Ben-Hur came from the pen of a retired Union Army general, Lew Wallance, a hero of the Civil War who had never shown signs of intense religious convictions, but on a trip to New Mexico, State of which he had been appointed governor, he met Robert Ingersoll, an agnostic philosopher, one of the main figures of free thought of the 19th century in the United States, which pushed him to deep religiosity and after five years of work he published his work, which in At first it became a stage play, until the film rights were sold to the Goldwyn Company for a fixed amount and a percentage of the profits.
