The book of Esther is one of my favorite books of the Bible, I have read it completely many times and have done several in depth studies. This movie, less the names of the characters, has no resemblance to the source account. I am very open to artistic license and understand that often for many reasons stories are adapted from the original source, but the deviations in this account are incredible. Examples: queen Vashti at the start of the account, is deposed not for having an affair, but for refusing to present herself to a group of the kings friends to be ogled at, (in the Persian Culture this would have been a very disgraceful position). Vashti was in the right not the king. The nature of the relationship between Esther and Haman (the antagonist) in the Bible is not personal, in fact there is no real conflict stated between them until the end. In the Movie Esther is engaged at the beginning, there is absolutely no evidence of this in scripture. Some of these variations may seam minor but the ones I stated are very major to the interpretation and application of the story, I won't get into this because this is not a Bible class. I could probably present 50 other major variations, which is incredible because the biblical book is only 10 chapters. In conclusion this is an OK movie but a terrible account of the biblical record. Read the book!
Review of Esther and the King
