My disappointment, let's take advantage of this.

Mariela 2022-12-11 14:23:31

At that time, when I watched the Goya Awards live on the ultra-small TV at home, I felt that this film was out of the limelight, but after watching all the Goya Award-winning films, I just want to say that the development of Spanish films is still not good. .
I remember that before this film was released, I was still traveling in SEVILLA, and the streets were full of promotional posters for this film. I felt that the whole of Spain was looking forward to this film. The director is indeed quite famous. My favorite of his previous films is abre los ojos, but this one is really average.
Indeed, this kind of plot may have a great impact on Europeans, but for the Chinese who have experienced so much, it is not surprising. Decades ago, we were just shouting slogans and forcing groups after groups of intellectual pioneers to commit suicide or be committed suicide. Speaking of belief, this kind of violence has nothing to do with belief, it is just a political competition between several men, and it is precisely the man who should protect her who is relatively useless, so there is the final outcome.
I don't know what to expect from this film, the conflict between religions, the nature of faith, or the powerlessness of science. All I see in this film is a mediocre, bland history, and it doesn't make me sympathetic at all, except that Rome's prefect is a real bummer.
I think that if the director draws from the history of China in the 20th century to make a movie similar to this one, it will definitely be more touching and shocking. If there is anything that can go through thousands of years and cross borders without changing at all, it is human stupidity.
In fact, this movie is a good movie, but it is really average for well-informed Chinese people.

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Agora quotes

  • 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.

  • 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?