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Agora - great scene with Orestes and Synesius/ Oscar Isaac and Rupert Evans

Great scene from the movie 'Agora' between Roman prefect of Alexandria, Orestes and bishop Synesius after Orestes nearly got stoned by a mob of fanatic Christians because he did not subject to the word of the Bible. Orestes realises that Cyril wants to take over the city of Alexandria and uses Hypatia to rile up the masses against him. As he asks Synesius to help him fight against Cyril, he will only help Orestes if he tells him he truely believes in the word of God aka. the Bible. At the end Orestes starts to cry because he is in such a moral dilemma. I think this is one of the most powerful scenes of the movie. It portraits the emotional conflict of Orestes' own morals and religious dogma so well. One can doubt that he really, truely believed in God. He (just like the bishop in real life who also showed no sign of actually believing the nonsense about women in the Bible in reality) was a baptised Christian, born a Pagan, who had NO choice but to convert to still have a change to have the career he was groomed into. He had a very pragmatic outlook on things and faith was no matter of life and death for him, nor a reason to erase the values and knowledge he was raised with. So try to imagine what he feels. He nearly got killed by a mob of fanatics, he realised what Cyril is up to, he understands that Hypatia is in danger, he realises that Synesius (that didn't happen in real life but was probably used in the movie to show the conflict Orestes was in) won't help him if he doesn't accept what is written in the Bible. He has to kneel because otherwise he would lose his power, career and probably endanger himself even more but at the same time he has to commit to some dogma that he clearly doesn't believe in and by that he kind of betrays Hypatia as well. That's a horrible moral conflict. I think it was even described like that in a long text about the movie in the European press kit. The man is desperate and broken in that moment, that's why he cries. That scene was really one of the strongest of the whole movie to me. I think it showed well the point where religion gets dangerous. When you no longer care if a person is good/wants to do the right thing and care more about if that person accepts God and belongs to the group, no matter what. The point when you no longer question things, too.