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"AGORA": $75MM mixed bag . . .

Posted by mr grits on October 21, 2010 at 17:08:28:
This Spanish-made historical drama was about the story of astronomy and Hypatia of Alexandria around 391 AD. Rachel Weisz play Hypatia the philosopher and astronomer who held classes at the library.

Amenabar said his goal was to teach people some astronomy basics against the historical backdrop of Hypatia's 'career', her students, and the conflicting religions. Unfortunately, for 75 really big ones this had that awful made-for-tv feel. That might explain why I never heard of this before Netflix.

Anyway, the sub-story was that of Christians, Jews, and pagans battling it out in the streets. According to historical sources the good people of Alexandria were much like modern day French as it didn't take much to get them rioting. The Christians weren't exactly Bible Story types in this film and the Jews, as usual, were presented as smarmy and arrogant. The pagans just plain arrogant and stupid.

As it goes, Hypatia's slave and favorite student fall for her only to be spurned to seek other lives for themselves. We find, at the end of the movie, she had not succumbed to Christianity on the grounds that she preferred philosophy and she was stoned by them! Gads, was Mohammed in that crowd!

Well, for all you monocled types this is one to miss but the CGI did a great job of recreating Alexandria and the bonus material showed the sets which were enormous.