http://www.plasticpals.com/?p=28864 Robots who are fun to be with! Sun, 31 Mar 2013 20:31:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://www.plasticpals.com/?p=28864&cpage=1#comment-13372 FLJ Tue, 09 Aug 2011 19:59:00 +0000 http://www.plasticpals.com/?p=28864#comment-13372 A thoughtful review. I saw the film when it
first came out in NYC and loved Weisz’ performance as Hypatia. Amenabar
distorts some history in service to his art (the Library didn’t end that way
and Synesius wasn’t a jerk), but that’s what artists do. I don’t go to the
movies for history. For people who want to know more about the historical
Hypatia, I highly recommend a very readable biography “Hypatia of
Alexandria” by Maria Dzielska (Harvard University Press, 1995). I also
have a series of posts on the historical events and characters in the film at
my blog (http://faithljustice.wordpress.com) – not a movie review, just a
“reel vs. real” discussion.

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