i'd say this movie is well worth watching - no matter what ...
in fact, i even enjoyed watching it, for many reasons, Avicenna's character and his life story being only one of the least important ones in it i'd add btw ...
yes, to me, the movie doesn't make justice to his character, not thoroughly at least, but it's fine enough ... after all, Avicenna's not the first character we see appear on the screen in this movie, nor is he the last one either ... and although the entire story sounds like to be built on and around him and his life, the movie's name is Physician, not Avicenna ... (so, could we say it could be any -important- physician as far as history is concerned?) haven't read the book ... and it's unlikely i ever will ...
why: 'cause there are so many other books and articles as well as research material about Avicenna that i haven't read either! :) i HAVE read about him in a scattered manner though, you know: here and there ...
i also read a short work of his once, whose name i can't remember right now ... (or was it something written by others but attributed to him? who cares ...) and no matter who wrote about him and why, many of those scattered bits and pieces i have read about this great man are of course of the exaggerated nature ... which is pretty much like most other important historical figures of all kinds: the gentleman's character is 'huge' and things he has said or done are also unbelievably big and at times even unusual ... and most resources treat him in that manner in fact: a scientific hero!
i even remember there was a TV series about him made by the Iranian television (post the Islamic revolution) and it followed certain texts about him i was already familiar with: Avicenna has been such a genius person he'd been curing some tough illnesses since he was an 8-year-young child ... more curious than anything else, eh? ;-)
OK, back to this particular movie, which shows Avicenna in the last few months (or years?) of his life only and with no reference to his childhood, well, yes, it's a very well made one indeed, i gave it 7/10, could as well have given it even more, but since i didn't find it 'accurate' enough (in terms of portraying Avicenna "correctly", as well as mishandling certain historical reports about him and his era of existence) then i decided to not go with 10/10 ...
especially bothering (to some extent) is the fact that a young man from nowhere goes to Persia and uses his natural instincts to the max so that he even manages to teach his master in a very short time ... (used the word 'nowhere' as in the historical reality that England at the time was not considered very important, or so at least this movie is trying to tell us that!? and btw, did the British really allow 'modern' medicine to replace their ancient, mostly superstitious manners of curing people in the 11th century?)
well, as long as this is not a movie about Persia along the lines of the awful movie 300, and gets on with facts of all kind much better than that one, then it's overall a really fine movie i'd recommend people to watch if they like this kind of story ...
in fact, i even enjoyed watching it, for many reasons, Avicenna's character and his life story being only one of the least important ones in it i'd add btw ...
yes, to me, the movie doesn't make justice to his character, not thoroughly at least, but it's fine enough ... after all, Avicenna's not the first character we see appear on the screen in this movie, nor is he the last one either ... and although the entire story sounds like to be built on and around him and his life, the movie's name is Physician, not Avicenna ... (so, could we say it could be any -important- physician as far as history is concerned?) haven't read the book ... and it's unlikely i ever will ...
why: 'cause there are so many other books and articles as well as research material about Avicenna that i haven't read either! :) i HAVE read about him in a scattered manner though, you know: here and there ...
i also read a short work of his once, whose name i can't remember right now ... (or was it something written by others but attributed to him? who cares ...) and no matter who wrote about him and why, many of those scattered bits and pieces i have read about this great man are of course of the exaggerated nature ... which is pretty much like most other important historical figures of all kinds: the gentleman's character is 'huge' and things he has said or done are also unbelievably big and at times even unusual ... and most resources treat him in that manner in fact: a scientific hero!
i even remember there was a TV series about him made by the Iranian television (post the Islamic revolution) and it followed certain texts about him i was already familiar with: Avicenna has been such a genius person he'd been curing some tough illnesses since he was an 8-year-young child ... more curious than anything else, eh? ;-)
OK, back to this particular movie, which shows Avicenna in the last few months (or years?) of his life only and with no reference to his childhood, well, yes, it's a very well made one indeed, i gave it 7/10, could as well have given it even more, but since i didn't find it 'accurate' enough (in terms of portraying Avicenna "correctly", as well as mishandling certain historical reports about him and his era of existence) then i decided to not go with 10/10 ...
especially bothering (to some extent) is the fact that a young man from nowhere goes to Persia and uses his natural instincts to the max so that he even manages to teach his master in a very short time ... (used the word 'nowhere' as in the historical reality that England at the time was not considered very important, or so at least this movie is trying to tell us that!? and btw, did the British really allow 'modern' medicine to replace their ancient, mostly superstitious manners of curing people in the 11th century?)
well, as long as this is not a movie about Persia along the lines of the awful movie 300, and gets on with facts of all kind much better than that one, then it's overall a really fine movie i'd recommend people to watch if they like this kind of story ...