Agora (2009)

[mysteriouza]

Director:
Alejandro Amenábar

Genre:
Adventure | Drama | History | Romance

Tagline:
Alexandria, Egypt. 391 A.D. The World Changed Forever.

Plot:
A historical drama set in Roman Egypt, concerning a slave who turns to the rising tide of Christianity in the hopes of pursuing freedom while also falling in love with his master, the famous female philosophy professor and atheist Hypatia of Alexandria.

[apollowatson]

Agora can be a powerful subversion of female film, but it does have it when it never truly live up to its ambitious potential. Somehow, the fighting and violence Plato scene investigation and the meeting did not cross very exciting movie. This one is the mud, in the extreme.

[micheldevice]

The Agaro Movies is historical drama taking place in Roman Egypt, about a slave who turns to the rising tide of Christianity in the hope of achieving freedom, while in love with his master, the famous professor of philosophy Women and atheist Hypatia of Alexandria. Agora could have been a highly subversive feminist movie, but if it has its moments it never really lives up to its potential ambitious.

[alfieclinton]

A fable: the fourth-century Christians as the Taliban. Alexandria, 391: Hypatia taught astronomy, mathematics and philosophy. Orestes her students that she was Davus, her personal love slave. With the city's Christians, Ammonius and Cyrillic, access to political power under the leadership of the great learning institutions and governance may not survive. Jump the next 20 years: Orestes, prefect of the city, there is a disturbing the peace with Christians, by Cyril leadership. Christians in the implementation of public morality, first, they thought their obstacles of the Jews, then the women. Hypatia no interest in faith, and her brother on the movement of celestial objects and all the attention. This one is really great scripted film.

[tomrobert]

Agora is the nice movie. Muddled film that has its sights on the top on the right track, but lacks focus and direct a script that can handle the issue. Alejandro Amenabar does best, but falls short in many respects with his narrative. The film is a bit too long and the script varies from time to time, but Rachel Weisz's performance is Oscar worthy and deserving of a better film to respect the effort he puts into it.