It's been released here at cinemas the wonderful movie
AGORA', Director Amenabar ( from Chile) who directed also the very beautiful
The Others in the past...
What could I say except it is really a movie well done, wonderful script and based on a true story around the end of the Roman Empire, centering on female academician
Ipazia, who was an astronomer,too, and maybe discovered something essential about planetary orbits around the sun upgrading the old Greek theories of
Aristarcus( alternatives to the ones of Aristoteles..)...
It's a story about what fanatism can do, how bad it can become and the consequences of any theocracy...
As a modeller I really appreciated the recreated old town of Alexandria in Egypt, and the Library of Alexandria, too, partly with CGI and party with scale models...
But it's also a story about the way religion can change completely uses, customs, traditions, and turn the (once) good ones into the (current) bad ones...and the movie also shows one of the (overall...)four destructions of the famous Library of Alexandria, one caused maybe from Caesar (unwillingly during the fightings of the civil war...), the second during Aurelianus's rule cause of his fightings against rebel Queen Zenobia. and then the third cause of Christian/paganism religious fightings, as shown in AGORA'...
The last and final destruction was caused by the first bloody arab invasions in history of course... :'(
But as you can see any fanatism/war in history did its best to destroy culture with the passing of centuries...
And a good example about the way thinking with your own head/rationalism or discussing/refusing the strongest religious theories could be considered a crime, in the end...and it had been so for a long time in history here and there unfortunately for many and many people of free thinkers undoubtedly...