Agora

Agora

  • Director: Alejandro Amenábar
  • Writer: Alejandro Amenábar,Mateo Gil
  • Countries of origin: Spain, Malta, Bulgaria
  • Language: English
  • Release date: October 9, 2009
  • Sound mix: SDDS, Dolby Digital, DTS
  • Aspect ratio: 2.35 : 1
  • Also known as: Mists of Time
  • "Agora" is a historical biographical film directed by Alejandro Amenábar and starring Rachel Weisz , Max Minghella and Oscar Isaac . It was released in Spain on October 9, 2009.
    The film tells the life story of the outstanding Egyptian mathematician and philosopher Hypatia from an innocent girl to a legendary female scholar who swears to protect the truth in the 4th century   .

    Details

    • Release date October 9, 2009
    • Filming locations Delimara, Malta
    • Production companies Mod Producciones, Himenóptero, Telecinco Cinema

    Box office

    Budget

    $70,000,000 (estimated)

    Gross US & Canada

    $619,423

    Opening weekend US & Canada

    $33,262

    Gross worldwide

    $39,457,342

    Movie reviews

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    • By Una 2022-12-30 23:34:19

      The city square, only the sun, moon and stars remain unchanged

      Revisiting Gino Reeves' old films, the heroine who used to be "Mummy" is now appearing in front of the screen in the appearance of a young age. Quiet, wise, detached, clear, and calm

      seems to save me. For fear of age,

      I searched for this [City Square]
      , and my remaining beliefs were completely gone.

      This is the first good movie I saw in 2011, a long-lost good movie. (The whole 2010 can be remembered is the [Brother])

      The film tells about the gradual...

    • By Sharon 2022-12-30 04:04:58

      truth and value

      I took a Philosophy of Science class during my last semester of undergraduate study, and I ended up with a strange idea: Philosophy of Science is an ethics. I told the counselor about this idea, and he thought there was something wrong with my idea. Then the course ended, I also graduated with an undergraduate degree, and studied other majors with a master's degree, so I didn't think about it any further. Thinking about it now, "science" is a methodological norm proposed by...

    • By Roman 2022-12-28 18:06:32

      The last light before darkness

      the question of faith.

      It is said that there is a lack of faith in today's society. How to choose what to believe and what not to believe? Who will choose?

      Maybe it's a good thing that you can also choose, whether you are active or passive, at least you have a choice. When an era comes when there is no choice, when is that? Those were the dark ages. We have had that era in human history, and that era is called the Middle Ages. It was a long dark age, an age of stagnation in...

    • By Libbie 2022-12-28 15:06:50

      The Fall of Reason in the Age of Ideological Autocracy

      "City Square" tells the story of the people who lost their self-thinking and fell into blind worship after the Christian power gradually became more and more powerful in ancient Rome. Although the element of love is added in the film, this love is also closely bound up with religion and politics. On the one hand, it sets off Pasitia's pure passion for truth, and on the other hand, it uses the perspective of two men to lead the audience to experience Christianity. and the...

    • By Vinnie 2022-12-27 16:33:29

      Humanity is immortal

      I almost forgot that the initial rise of Christianity was at the expense of the fall of Greek civilization and the imprisonment of humanistic spirit. Strict religion once made man lose his position as the master of the universe and turned him into a small and despicable insect.
      The film reveals the family history of Christianity, which is the spiritual core of Western civilization, as a warning: Western civilization is also born out of barbarism, and even in advanced Christian...

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    • By Pearlie 2023-09-24 07:39:33

      The death of Hypatia and the burning of the Library of Alexandria by Christians did not merely delay the progress of human civilization by 1,200 years. . . The elliptical trajectory, which is more perfect than a circle, as the answer she has obtained in her life, cannot illuminate the entire city or the generations behind like a beacon. . . Humans’ pursuit of faith has always become a call to slaughter. Today’s world is not much better than in the...

    • By Dario 2023-09-21 04:02:09

      Return a perfect circle to an...

    • By Shannon 2023-09-12 00:52:10

      If faith means...

    • By Zion 2023-09-10 05:02:05

      It turns out that Christianity still has such an unbearable past and lacks culture....

    • By Imelda 2023-09-06 23:05:10

      i believe in...

    Movie plot

    In Egypt in the 4th century AD, Hypatia ( Rachel Weisz ) , who lived in Alexandria, was an outstanding Egyptian female mathematician, astrologer, and philosopher. She devoted herself to the collection and sorting of the wisdom of ancient civilizations, but she was gradually emerging at the time. Christianity is regarded as a pagan and a thorn in the eye. Hypatia's slave Daus ( Max Minghella ) loves his mistress on the one hand, and...
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    Behind the scenes gags

    When Amamba wrote the script, he assumed Rachel Weisz to be Hypatia.
    The film was shot in Fort Rikka Sorri, Malta, and the crew specially built a "Grand Port of Alexandria" for this purpose.
    Hypatia was originally scheduled to starring Nicole Kidman, but she was criticized by Christians because she played a femme fatale in the movie "The Golden Compass". To avoid this happening again, Ni Can voluntarily quit the filming of the....
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    Evaluation action

    "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...
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    Movie quotes

    • Hypatia: Synesius, you don't question what you believe, or cannot. I must.

    • Hypatia: [Looks up at night sky] If I could just unravel this just a little bit more, and just get a little closer to the answer, then... Then I would go to my grave a happy woman.

    • Heladius Dignitary: The majority of us here... have accepted Christ. Why not the rest of you? It's only a matter of time and you know it.

      Hypatia: Really? It is just a matter of time?... As far as I am aware, your God has not yet proved himself to be more just or more merciful than his predecessors. Is it really just a matter of time before I accept your faith?

      Heladius Dignitary: Why should this assembly accept the council of someone who admittedly believes in absolutely nothing?

      Hypatia: I believe in philosophy.