Review of Agora (2009) by Dave A — 30 Mar 2015
What if everything you believed, and thought you knew, was wrong?
When everything you know if turned upside down there is one absolute truth: it sucks to be a slave. Slaves are at the bottom of everybody's food chain. This is an ambitious film. It wants to tell a grand ambitious spic story. What it comes down to is disillusionment. Rachel Weisz's Hypatia and her slave Davus face disillusionment. Each one of the characters in the film face a certain disillusionment toward what they once believed. Davus is a tragic figure; he really seems to be trying to play both sides for the heart of Hypatia, a love he can not have. If this were just a story of a woman philosopher - that would be enough. But it's ambition is to tell a period story 360 degrees, instead of from just one point of view. This is a film that tries to tell a story of both science and religion as faith.
This review of Agora (2009) was written by Dave A on 30 Mar 2015.
Agora has generally received positive reviews.
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