Returning to the film, the young Spanish director Amamba used beautiful and slightly sad shots to compose a poignant elegy for the free-thinking and technologically advanced ancient Greek and Roman culture. When Christians burst into the Library of Alexandria in Egypt shouting "Destroy the heretics of the pagans", and when the scrolls containing the wisdom of ancient sages were thrown from the shelves, the whole world was turned upside down, and the Egyptian "Pantheon" The skylight of God no longer sheds the light of God's wisdom on the world.
In the dead of night, the philosopher, mathematician and astronomer Hypatia looked up at the stars, and she must be praying to the gods. Perhaps at that time, she would not have thought that it was not just all beings who suffered, but also those who spread knowledge and truth. For Christians who have only faith without thinking, thinking means possible rebellion. So damn free-thinking intellectuals.
Under the same starry sky, Daus, once a slave of Hypatia, is painfully closing the floodgates of thought and emotion. His origin determines his position. If he didn't break the old system, he could only stand in the corner forever, watching the noble man express his love for Hypatia passionately. But breaking the old system also means stepping on the entire spiritual world of Hypatia, which was once the spiritual world of Daus. Under her teaching, he made a beautiful celestial model. When the Christian brothers around him warmly and foolishly discuss the earth, sun and stars, the pain in his heart should be desolate and unspeakable. Facing the title of "slave", he took up the knife and slashed hard at the idol symbolizing oppression, and also cut off the last link between him and her.
As long as there is oppression and poverty in the world, as long as a flag is raised to tell those at the bottom of society: Stand up, there will be bread and milk, there will be no poverty, hunger, and cold here. There will always be countless people rushing past. Then what? Like in the movie, after Christians and Judaism overthrew the ancient Greek and Roman civilization of polytheism together, they threw the stones in their hands at the Jews? Or as in the French Revolution, when later revolutionaries assassinated those who initiated the revolution on the charge of counter-revolution?
There is no shortage of passion in sports, but who cares about reason? What drives people crazy is not religion or any kind of ism, but the right to control the world.
So it's not the Christians that are scary, but the ambition for power and the madness for the irrational.
Amamba once said: "My film is a question rather than an answer." The English name of the film is the fog of time, clear the fog and see what history is telling us.
Another manifestation of the rich connotation of the film lies in the different types of characters. There is Daus who can risk his death to bring relief to Hypatia, and there is also love for Hypatia, who can still try his best to protect her after being publicly rejected by her, but in the "choice of her or her." You die" when the Roman ruler Aristis backed away. Of course, there will also be the speculative Sinesius who seeks advantages and avoids disadvantages. He is handsome in appearance and sweet in his mouth, but is actually cold in his heart.
Playing Hypatia is Rachel Weisz, who should be said to be intellectually beautiful. But for this role, she is too young and beautiful. If by Kidd. Nicole Man is obviously more suitable. She has the beauty of a goddess aloof. The male students' admiration for her should be more about knowledge and humanity.
The role of Sinethius is an unknown English boy, Robert Evans, who looks a bit like Heath Ledger in "Brokeback Mountain".
Although the Iraqis are gone, the fragrance remains.
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