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Subject: Re: Frogs, Children : EXPLAINED!!!!
Date: Nov 20, 2000
I'd like to congratulate you on your brilliant explanation of the film 'Magnolia'. My husband and i watched it with our two teenage children last night and spent two hours discussing it and trying to understand it. We sat bored,bewildered and yet unable to turn it off in the hope of all being explained. Thanks to my trusty computer and finding you on it i can now understand and may even watch it again.
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Frogs, Children : EXPLAINED!!!!
The whole film from beginning to finnish is a direct reference to and re-telling of the Exodus chapter in the bible. Through out the film if you look closely you will find the repeated use of the numbers 8 and 2. Looking even closer at some scenes will reveal the words "Exodus 8:2". Exodus 8:2 is the part of Exodus when Moses tells the Pharoah (symbolically played by Jason Robards) to let his people go, or he would unleash a plague of frogs upon the Pharoah's country. This symbolic signifigance (of Earl) is made clear when you find out that Earl Partrige was the game shows producer. None of peoples lives whould have changed if the game show had'nt had started. Earl is the direct cause of the peoples troubles, therefore the players in the cast are symbolic of the Pharoah's oppressed. When Earl dies, the plague of Frogs end and all of the oppressed find repemption.
The scene when Donnie Smith retreats to the bathroom in the bar, he quietly mutters a passage to himself from Exodus that is directly tied into the whole "Children/angels" speach. In Exodus, the children were amoung the oppressed, and not to give anything else away, I will tell you to read Exodus and you will be shocked at all of the direct references you will see from the film (i.e. The prophet, the pharoah, the children, the caretakers, etc.).
Enjoy.
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