16 Matching Annotations
  1. Oct 2024
    1. In the beginning of the film, a message appears that states the film encompasses historical facts as well as free personal impressions about Muhammad. Accordingly, some of the film's events did not actually take place in real life, but are indeed similar to events in Muhammad's biography.[6] Majidi stated that the objective behind presenting these scenes is to show that the whole existence could feel Muhammad's presence as well as his mercy.

      Interesting. This is a general problem with historical movies. There is almost no such thing as objectivity. By making a movie, you make choices, you select what makes the cut and what doesn't. and by doing so, you form a certain image of the prophet, in this case. The free personal impressions of Majid are in fact a way to represent a certain image of Muhammad.

      From what I have read, Majid is blamed for putting forward a Shi'ite Muhammed forward in the movie. Perhaps his free personal impressions are expressed in this regard?

  2. Mar 2024
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  4. Sep 2022
    1. The men of the Swedelands 30 For truce or for truth trust I but little

      The messenger reminds the people of the battles with the Swedes in which Hygelac was killed and Beowulf fought. Perhaps this long digression on the theme of Beowulf's death is an extended warning: these things will now come to pass again.

    2. The folk now expecteth Our lord’s death will lead to attacks 20 A season of strife when the death of the folk-king from our old foes. To Frankmen and Frisians in far-lands is published.

      The Messenger warns that former enemies will take advantage of Beowulf's death.

  5. Oct 2021
  6. Mar 2021
    1. The urgent argument for turning any company into a software company is the growing availability of data, both inside and outside the enterprise. Specifically, the implications of so-called “big data”—the aggregation and analysis of massive data sets, especially mobile

      Every company is described by a set of data, financial and other operational metrics, next to message exchange and paper documents. What else we find that contributes to the simulacrum of an economic narrative will undeniably be constrained by the constitutive forces of its source data.

  7. Oct 2020
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