tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21082552.post3090901773329508913..comments2024-03-05T02:14:39.266-07:00Comments on Strange Culture: Reel People: Rachel Weisz is HypatiaRChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11340006144797496514noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21082552.post-57502925437388904632012-07-14T16:51:31.199-06:002012-07-14T16:51:31.199-06:00> It is in fact a piece of false propaganda bas...> It is in fact a piece of false propaganda based of the romanticised version of the fact by the thoroughly Anti-Christian Gibbons... etc.<br /><br />vim58, you say the standard history is wrong and give a rewrite that you preface with the words "in fact," but you give no sources for your "facts" and you make such leading statements as, "and then has the incredible bad judgement for an intelligent woman of science to wander into a riot of the Christian working class of the city," again supported by no citations or facts. So for now, though they may not be perfect or agree in every particular, I'll stick with the standard account. The problem with you pro-Christians is you like your facts without "facts."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21082552.post-59611863885446349932012-07-14T16:46:48.672-06:002012-07-14T16:46:48.672-06:00According to Wikipedia and several other sources, ...According to Wikipedia and several other sources, Hypatia was not parried to isidore:<br /><br />The claim made in the Suda that Isidore was the husband of Hypatia,[7] must be in error since Isidore was born long after Hypatia died.<br /><br />http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isidore_of_Alexandria<br /><br />Carl Sagan also states she was unmarried in his Cosmos television show.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21082552.post-78800511711961112572010-10-13T12:02:50.357-06:002010-10-13T12:02:50.357-06:00It is in fact a piece of false propaganda based of...It is in fact a piece of false propaganda based of the romanticised version of the fact by the thoroughly Anti-Christian Gibbons. There never was a burning of the library of Alexandria in the V century AD. Only a satellite library was destroyed by the Moslems about 2 centuries later. Sequence of events: Prefect Orestes uses the Jewish community to attack Alexandria's Christians. Christians strike back and expel Jewish community. Orestes tries to suppress the majoritary Christian community. Hypatia (friend of Orestes and as a 'Neoplatonist' publicly backing elitism and denying the 'absurd' Christian thought that all can be saved in Christ as a freebie without 'winning salvation by oneself), declares for Orestes' position and then has the incredible bad judgement for an intelligent woman of science to wander into a riot of the Christian working class of the city, NOT the paralabenoi and unrelated to Bishop Cyrill. For political reasons, she's lynched. Horrible and a tragedy, but not, as proclaimed since Gibbons (mid XIX Cent. AD), for religious reasons or for not being Christian. The film is a great work of art I am sure, but do see it as fiction. The director is the same one who (with public taxpayer's funds economic support from the socialist Spanish current administration) has created propaganda in defense of other initiatives of the left such as euthanasia ('The Inner Sea'), so it is not strange that he would create such a film based on non-historical made up legend, attacking not only the Catholic Church (synonimous with Christianity at that time), but Christianity itself.vlm58noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21082552.post-59965847312507737692010-05-17T03:38:49.519-06:002010-05-17T03:38:49.519-06:00Few films manage to strike as poetic a resonance a...Few films manage to strike as poetic a resonance as Amenabar’s Agora...and at the heart of the film is Rachel Weisz’s superbly nuanced and layered performance as the proto-feminist philosopher. <br /><br />Weisz gives her character the objective idealism that it requires, at the same time evoking a plethora of complex emotions. <br /><br />Her performance, especially towards the end of the film is flawless...very few actresses could have pulled off a dialogue like "Oh Orestes! Cyril has already won"... or "You do not question what you believe in...you cannot...I must" with this amount of subtlety!...<br /><br />She definitely deserves an Oscar nomination (if not a win) and the same goes for the film as well... that is if the film's outspoken stand on Christian fundamentalism does not manage to piss off American audiences and critics...Parjanyahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05482813542799623778noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21082552.post-24108021771786314062010-05-17T03:33:38.525-06:002010-05-17T03:33:38.525-06:00This comment has been removed by the author.Parjanyahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05482813542799623778noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21082552.post-33856026535529659132010-04-08T04:58:49.341-06:002010-04-08T04:58:49.341-06:00this is fascinating; I hope I get a chance to see ...this is fascinating; I hope I get a chance to see it.Lornahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08976144449873569523noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21082552.post-3491436952639242732010-04-08T00:16:22.674-06:002010-04-08T00:16:22.674-06:00I saw this recently, and as I said before I absolu...I saw this recently, and as I said before I absolutely LOVED it. Rachel is exceptional, but I don't know if the movie will be seen or well recieved. Her death is handled more tastefully than history tells us.<br /><br />PS. the menstrual blood thing to ward off suitors is actual woven into the plot.Andrew K.https://www.blogger.com/profile/01104647944747041277noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21082552.post-48410733396188383232010-04-07T05:09:31.524-06:002010-04-07T05:09:31.524-06:00It depends if the film is widely seen by the acade...It depends if the film is widely seen by the academy. Rachel Weisz's performances has garners heavy praise but not many people have seen the movie.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com