AGORA

 AGORA

Agora is a movie about the fall of the Roman Empire and about Hypatia. 

The movie took place in Alejandria, Egypt. It is the epoch when the Roman Empire was starting to convert into the Cristianism. 
What I remember from the movie is that the Cristians, the egiptians and the Jewsh were in conflict because of religious reasons. Cristians were spreading over Alejandria, but the egiptians didn't want them there. Egiptians and Cristians fought for being the dominant religion. 
One day the Cristians were in the temples of the Egiptian's gods. They were mocking at them. They were also trhowing them food and laughing because they didn't answered their questions. The egiptians were upset, because of the cristians' insults, so they decides to attack them. Hypatia was not agree with that attack, but her father approved it. So many students and workers of the library took their weapons and ran to the temple where the cristians were. There they surrounded them and then they attacked. A lot of people and crsistias died that day, but after a while more cristians arrived and they were winning, so the egiptians had to run into the library to be safe. There the egiptians closed the huge doors of the library and waited until the cristians went calm. The egiptians lasted a few days locked i the library until the emperor sent a message that said that teh egiptians must share the library with the cristians and that they must open the doors of the library in that moment. All the philosophers were atonish, the cristians were going to destroy everything, so they tried to save all the could. Hypatia was one of the most concerned. She had a slave named Davos,he was in love with her. Hypatia treated him bad so he became upset. when all the egiptians were leaving the library Davos returned and helped the cristians to destroy it. 

After a few years Davos become a cristian soldier and Osteres (an old student of Hypatia, he also loved her, but she rejected him) became a kind of governator of Alejandria. Hypatia lived with Osteres, there she had her little library and her own place where she can study and investigate about the planet movements. After the confrontation between egiptians and cristians the Roman Empire devided in two. The religious conflicts continued, but now cristians were atacking jews. The Jews complained with Osteres, but he didn't do anything. Cristinas attacked other religions and they were intolerant. The Jewish stoned them in revenge and a lot of cristinas died. Beacause of that incident cristiasn started to press Osteres to convert all  Alejandria into cristianism. 

Osteres loved Hypatia so the bishop of that epoch accussed her of whitchcraft,he had to kneel so the cristians will not fight anymore, but he did not kneel, so the cristians were mad and one of them threw him a stone into the head, so he was killed by the soldiers. After that Osteres warned Hypatia, so she can be safe, but Hypatia didn't want to loose her beliefs, so she went out to the street where the cristians were waiting for her. she was captured, Davos ran to the temple where she was. There she was naked, he felt so bad for her that he killed her before the cristians stoned her. 
That's the end of the movie. 

I liked the movie a lot, beacuse it was a combination of action and love. I also liked the cruelty showed. I was atonished when Cyrilo (the bishop) read some passages from the Bible that said that women is nothing and that they should stay quiet without thiking. I disagree with him in all the aspects. He considered Hypathia an obstacle so that is why he accused her of witchcraft and then the parabolans killed her. Cristians were not that merciful as they said. If I had lived in that time I would have followed Hypatia's posture of do not have any religion. All the religions at that time were cruel. The has a little about how exaclty the Roman Empire fell.