On a rainy Monday I went to see Ágora.
I know my History, so I knew a few things about Hepatia, a phylosopher and astronomer living in the late roman times in Alexandria.
The movie is better than I thought. It pictures Alexandria as it should, in the convoluted times where pagans and christians were fighting for the spiritual (and more) control over Mankind. And how scientists typically live in a world of their own.
Most will see it as a movie against religion, namely christians, for being absolutist and intolerant.
I too see the movie as a warning against intolerance in general, and how science and religion had, and still have problems coexisting.
Intolerance, Hate, Jealousy, Power, Control.
Overall, I left the cinema thinking, once again, that 1700 years later, we haven't learned SHIT and we are still making the same mistakes over and over.
Man is a lower class mammal indeed.
