Cost Of Prepaid Sim Card In India

Alcinema & inlibreria: Review of the film "Agora" by Alejandro Amenabar

"Agora" (Spain, 2009)

Director: Alejandro Amenabar

Cast: Rachel Weisz (Hypatia) Max Minghella (Davo), Ashraf Barhom (ammonium).

Production: Mod Producciones

The film poster

Plot: The story revolves around the character of Hypatia, scientist of Alexandria, which defends science from the attack of old and new religions , in particular of Christianity, of its aggressive and popular culture believes in a philosophy that pursues the ideal of search without dogmas. Another character in the movie and Davo, and disappointed in love slave, who is a freedom that will prove ephemeral, and its relationship with the Hypatia will be essential to the dramatic finish.

Comment: Agora and a movie complex and less schematic as it may seem at first sight. Hypatia's story becomes that of classical culture, destined to be swept away by religious intolerance. Emblematic in this regard and the scene of the destruction of the library of Alexandria, in which are enclosed in a single episode of centuries of looting and destruction: Christians in the film are mostly of the fanatics and the Taliban in advance of almost two thousand years, but in reality represent paradigmatically intolerance and dogmatism. Their cry of the Nazis and the same: "God with us": the name of God, and often appointed to no avail. But Christianity represented in the film and also capable to provide hope to the slaves to free themselves from the chains of food to the hungry, and Amenabar, director of great value here in its sixth film, shows us all the power of the new religion to attract the humble, those who have little hope and looking for something to hold onto. The director seems to be indignant at the way in which the teachings of Christ were rejected, at the time of Hypatia as today. Forgiveness is a word unknown to the mass of angry Christians while only the end and showed us a gesture of piety: Davo, to avoid further suffering of the woman he loved, and choked before being stoned by his fellow Parabolan. The pity and also to Amenabar, who distorts history (actually Hypatia was torn to pieces and parts of his body was publicly exposed as a threat and then burned along with the waste) to provide a dignified end to his heroine. Her look is polished, as in the shots from where it seems almost violent behavior of men refer to a divine sight, as if God hotel in the stars, in the depths of the universe, but no longer in humans. ;

OF ROBERTO LAI