"Agora" tells the legendary experience of an Egyptian woman in the great social changes. After the movie "Cleopatra", this theme has not been tried, and it is a long-lost Egyptian epic film. After the film was released in Europe, it received a lot of praise, but for American audiences, although this English-language film produced by the Spanish is magnificent and full of various dramatic conflicts, its lengthy and slightly heavy style may be detrimental. It's not easy, but the innocent, intelligent, beautiful, and determined Hypatia played by Rachel Weisz in the film represents a dream that people desire and cannot reach
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Agora quotes
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Hypatia: Ever since Plato, all of them - Aristarchus, Hipparchus, Ptolemy - they have all, all, all tried to reconcile their observations with circular orbits. But what if another shape is hiding in the heavens?
Davus: Another shape? Lady, there is no shape more pure than the circle; you taught us that.
Hypatia: I know, I know, but suppose - just suppose! - the purity of the circle has blinded us from seeing anything beyond it! I must begin all over with new eyes. I must rethink everything!... What if we dared to look at the world just as it is. Let us shed for a moment every preconceived idea - what shape would it show us?
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Davus: I was forgiven but now I can't forgive.
Ammonius: Forgive? Who the Jews?
Davus: Well Jesus pardoned them on the cross.