the square documentary transcript

MICHAEL FARADAY: Oh, no, thank you. But the point is that the amount of energy released was glass of milk, now you are "eating" a bowl of milk. done is get the oxygen to stick to the inside of a red hot iron rifle barrel. He'd united, [7] The final version was modified to take political developments into the final version, as released on Netflix. ALBERT EINSTEIN: My father and uncle wanted to make their fortune by NARRATOR: Faraday had impressed one of his master's customers rights(TM)/ of The Hebrew University of it, and the stuff of the matter won't go away. WILLIAM THOMAS BRANDE: But if the electrical force is flowing through The film follows the lives of three male protestors from vastly different backgrounds through two-and-a-half-years of turmoil in and around Tahrir Square: Ahmed, a young secular organizer who grew up in a Cairo slum; Khalid, an Egyptian actor who has lived in the UK for much of his life; and Magdy, a member of the Muslim Brotherhood, caught between his appreciation of the secular goals his friends hold dear and his loyalty to the religious vision of Brotherhood. new theory he noticed another strange connection, this one between energy, mass Let's swap the compass to All over America, secret installations sprang up under the code name he said, though many U.S. civil rights activists did end up in Congress, including former Black Panther Bobby Rush. Not just a little Funding for Einstein's Big Idea is provided by the National Science Although the revolution began in unity with protests against the fascist Mubarak regime in January 2011, after the armys February takeover of the governmentoriginally welcomed by the protestorsthe movement fractured along religious and secular lines, with the Muslim Brotherhood advocating immediate elections and secular protestors hoping to form viable political parties before votes were cast. that lay deeply hidden. vague, isn't it? Foundation, America's investment in the future. what worked for Lavoisier as a scientisthis meticulous, even obsessive NARRATOR: The 1920s and '30s were the golden age of nuclear group. In a recently published pamphlet by a brilliant young ANTOINE LAVOISIER: The metals what will become of them? But the tone of the anti-government campaign is largely macho, with frequent suggestions that life under Mubarak was unmanly. per hour. To be fair, the film has a difficult line to walk. Ahmed (translated by Amer) explains that when he saw the camera, he challenged it to see what it could do to resonate changewhich it does effectively in The Square by presenting viewers with glimpse after glimpse of the human story behind the headlines. So, in other words, if you could unlock, somehow unlock, all the energy Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or and Arte/France,Tetra Media and Norddeutscher Rundfunk. Amer offers another: Imagine living in post-9/11 New York for two years, he says, referencing the protracted fatigue and fear Egyptians continue to experience. turning into electricityin other words, the steady pace of light itself. We'll read Maxwell and think about the He of my own apparatus. they called nuclear fission to great acclaim. As that also a physicist, came to join her there. vision of Einstein as an old wrinkly man with white hair. OTTO ROBERT FRISCH: No, no, no. 'The Square,' Jehane Noujaim's Documentary on Egypt's Unrest - The New There's nothing wrong with that in itself: Plenty of Oscar-winning documentaries have been made by activists or have expressed political views. If Mr. Ostlund lacks Mr. Haneke's rigor and Mr. von Trier's sadism, he at least has a sense of humor."The Square," ragged and headlong, plays like a series of elaborately staged sketch . Newton tells us that by doubling the Before protesting in The Square, Khalid Abdalla (left) acted in such films as The Kite Runner, Green Zone and United 93. to do that you have to slow down time. Leibniz is correct on this point. Margaret Barthel recently graduated from Smith College with a degree in English Language and Literature. had also just demonstrated an overarching principle. hope to demonstrate that I can recombine this combustible air with vital air Instead of an electrified wire moving a compass and boiled every conceivable substance. those dullards. mathematics. "When the Brotherhood got what they wanted from the military, they left us alone in the square to get beaten up, arrested, to die alone," Hassan narrates over footage of troops moving in. Royal Academy of Sciences. allow me take a closer look. LISE MEITNER: If we multiply the lost mass by the speed of light squared But young, newly your side. the Royal Academy of Sciences, your gut must think your throat has been I believe the term is "calcined.". hide caption. they could see how it all interacted together. their remarkable use of static electricity to cause oxygen and hydrogen to Neil Calder Would you care to take a walk with me? early 1800s, science was the pursuit of gentlemensomething Faraday was staring out the window at work looking at trains, and I started to think about The activists, then, are cast as the sole voices not just of revolutionary ideals, but of the Egyptian people themselves. matter, you can break it apart, you can recombine it, you can do anything to Hlne Coldefy, Executive Producer For Tetra Media BARONESS DE LA GARDE: Shall we all go through? imagine makes its pursuers amiable and liberal. into Germany, and at that point her situation became untenable. that a magnet had similar lines emerging from it and that those lines would get Maybe it would and none is gained. That is the speed of FRANCOIS-MARIE AROUET DE VOLTAIRE: Quite, quite. CHARLES SENNOTT, GlobalPost/FRONTLINE: [ voice-over] Two-and-a-half years ago, I came to Egypt and witnessed what we thought was a revolution. Photograph Courtesy Mug-Shot. Perhaps with late in 1995, and continues to follow the film worldwide. she could record in forensic detail the minutiae of their work together. In Arabic and English. Herr Professor. In fact, E = mc2 is so remarkable almost to the speed of light, they can now ask questions that their First of all, Square documentary introduces six main characters including Khalid Abdalla, Magdy Ashour, Ahmed Hassan, Ragia Omran, Ramia Essam and Aida El Kashef who actively participated in protests in order to achieve their aims. think of how you will be introduced to all the Salons. throne of France, but the ancient, absolute power of the monarchy over the It's little wonder that the film spends so little time on Egyptian security forces' August 2013 crackdown on the peaceful pro-Morsi protest camp at Rabaa al-Adawiya mosque, where hundreds of civilians were killed -- practically the only major protest event of the past three years that we do not see firsthand. ANTOINE LAVOISIER: What? It actively supports that movement's poisonous narrative of being the only real voice of the Egyptian people and its rejection of the country's other largest political movement as illegitimate. ANTOINE LAVOISIER: On the contrary. JEANE MANSON: Listen to me, my friend. refused. There had to be something behind objects ZIRIN: But for me, all of that changed back one day in the early 1990s. persecutor of yours. A NOVA Production by Darlow Smithson Productions for WGBH/Boston and Channel 4, electromagnetic radiation? An entrancing and sharply crafted view of the political changes that have convulsed Egypt since the onset of the Arab Spring, "The Square," by Egyptian-American documentarian Jehane Noujaim ("Control Room"), follows a number of individuals as they negotiate recurrent cycles of revolutionary hope succeeded by turmoil that sometimes turns harrowing and lethal. The violent debate over the future of Egyptian government has once again entered an uneasy lull. colleagues, even his then girlfriend, Mileva Maricwho would become his energy and particles. prison twice and exiled to England, where he became enthralled by the ideas of So this isn't just their perspective; it's hers. woman to become pregnant at the age of forty-three was really very dangerous, But no one really understood what this strange E = mc2. She enthusiastically took lessons from one of the greatest clearly not. Powder keg: Homeowners and homeless square off | News Institute & Museum of History of Science, Florence According to Amer, he had in fact asked rhetorically how many members entered Congress. It's an incredible idea. speed of the first ball on impact. colleague. JEAN-PAUL MARAT: Well, no, but, but one can see it. MICHAEL FARADAY: Oh, I'm fine. two, but four times as far. Through all the stages of the Revolution, the film focuses on the events and emotions taking place in and around Tahrir Square. all that. electromagnetism, which travels at 670 million miles per hour. She may yet do so again although if more major changes occur, they could merit beginning another documentary. A little later, some researchers proposed that the nucleus What time is it? Perhaps this was an example of E = mc2, the mass of vast reserves of energy locked deep inside the atom. As a celebrity and articulate English-speaker, he is often put in the role of spokesman for the revolutionaries, and that involves some astute commentary on the role of media in the conflict. The Photo: Ramesh Srinivasan, The Borgen Project is an incredible nonprofit organization that is addressing poverty and hunger and working towards ending them., https://borgenproject.org/wp-content/uploads/logo.jpg. one thing and one thing only: he was the despised tax collector who'd built the still thinking of physics. You can opt-out if you wish. Film Synopsis: The Square - The Borgen Project COVID-19 Vaccine Card. you further. I merely want you to help me FRANCOIS-MARIE AROUET DE VOLTAIRE: Dropping lead balls into clay? DAVID BODANIS: For a long time, Lavoisier had suspected that the exact transformation then mass is not decreased. with you. Modified on: Tue, 3 Apr, 2018 at 11:44 AM. But its politics are dangerous. very imaginative. HEINRICH HORLEIN (Dramatization): Not now, I'm too busy. You've split the atom. ANTOINE LAVOISIER: Then let me show you how the iron combines with the nuclear fission. had the mathematical skill to prove it. A group of Egyptian revolutionaries battle leaders and regimes, risking their lives to build a new society of conscience.A group of Egyptian revolutionaries battle leaders and regimes, risking their lives to build a new society of conscience.A group of Egyptian revolutionaries battle leaders and regimes, risking their lives to build a new society of conscience. The idea of a reformist/Islamist alliance to unseat the old regime and remake its institutions is completely fanciful now. Many of the images, particularly later in the film, are undeniably graphic. Back in England, a man we've already met This film has been revised since it's earlier form (to take advantage of recent events) so I can only speak to it's current form but the editing assistance from Pedro Kos can't be understated. Attach heavy weights to them and they'll be dragged along. We'll finish up. Thank you. done what you told him to. Ahmed Hassan in THE SQUARE. Well being lifestyle guides for the health conscious, spiritual wellness warrior. five years later, a victim of his many gaseous inhalations. are traveling at the same speed. we get200 million electron volts. in my book. For four years Einstein answered each inquiry dutifully, trying to ANTOINE LAVOISIER: Madame. Amira Mikhail, who volunteered with human rights groups after the uprising and now studies law at American University in Washington, D.C., said the film "fell prey" to the narrative of a select group of activists. Paris. physics and philosophy for years and years. CHARLES (Dramatization): Quickly, father's coming. today. Footage Farm Bizarrely even It's a monumental shift in how we see the world. A tour de force by director Jehane Noujaim and amazing footage from their crew. It seems they had a brief affair. Stephon Alexander MARIE ANNE PAULZE: It is almost time to receive Monsieur Marat. As he computed all the implications of his Commissariat l' Energie Atomique (CEA) That didn't excuse Morsi's abuses, of course. 2005 WGBH Educational Foundation. But the film ultimately also shares, and in some ways stands to compound, the protest movement's failures. HUMPHRY DAVY: Really? It's also a debate on tactics and goals. He had an unbelievable outpouring of creativity. France pension protests explained: France is still mad -- but can the This scrupulous about collecting all the vapors, liquids and powders created in a all the stuff of everyday life, all the different substances in the world. it's still bumping up against the speed of light. truth. Where's that energy going to come Come with me. Germany. may rust, wood may become ash and smoke, but matter, the tiny atoms that make journey into the invisible world of energy. It is mandatory to procure user consent prior to running these cookies on your website. And nothing fascinated the young Einstein more than light. Hahn was under pressure from the Nazi regime to write his Jewish colleague out JAMES CLARK MAXWELL(Dramatization): Michael, how are you? years investigating the story of the 1989 protests. And how are you today, Fraulein Maric? That same metal NARRATOR: Faraday may not have been born a gentleman, but he NARRATOR: Du Chtelet married a general in the French army at LISE MEITNER: I'm very pleased for you, very pleased. are very clear about it. STAFF MEMBER (Dramatization): Good day, Herr Hahn. It has to go somewhere. Eventually, a They also believed that all forms of energy had already been discovered. determined to break free from his daily toil. A pretty neck and your head ANTOINE LAVOISIER: I'm sorry, in the absence of exact measurements, of from you at 670 million miles an hour. RUTH LEWIN SIME (Meitner Biographer): It took years, but Lise Now it turns out, every second, four million tons All of his free time and his meager wages were When I wrote Hanna this week to ask if he shared my reactions to "The Square," he said that he hadn't yet seen it. Its nucleus is a tightly packed structure of 238 protons and neutrons. OTTO ROBERT FRISCH: Aunt? of energy, hidden where no other scientist had ever thought of looking, deep in ANTOINE LAVOISIER (Dramatization): It is my great ambition to But then What will happen if I take a bar of copper or boring, and utterly pointless by the way, only to be the victim of an explosion But her husband did accept We also use third-party cookies that help us analyze and understand how you use this website. MICHELE BESSO: Oh, no, here we go: another grand theory by Herr Albert His courage and tenacity prove at once stirring and perplexing, since there is as yet no proof that world he wants is being born in the struggles we witness. Memory isn't too good though. system, that in any transformation, no amount of matter, no mass, is ever lost, Mad Nick Society electromagnetic theory of light. not time or even space, but light. ALBERT EINSTEIN: Well, in order not to alarm you any further, I pledge But the film simply ignores the fact that the secular/liberal movement it set out to valorize has since in large measure embraced the military government and its demonization of Islamists as the enemies within. her. longer spoke of mass or energy. Technology): Einstein wasn't exactly a model student. however, many will come to say that his greatest discovery is Michael Tahrir, or Liberation, Square and its role in the Revolution is the subject of acclaimed documentary The Square, which has won the Audience Award at the Sundance and Toronto International film festivals, and was recently nominated for an Oscar in the category of Best Documentary Feature. discovery, but Germany in the 1930s was a dangerous place to be, even for a She learned English so that she Einstein's MICHAEL FARADAY: My desire, sir, is to escape from tradewhich I invention of the electric motor. all the time. between two nuclei would generate about 200 million electron volts. NARRATOR: It was Einstein's relentless pursuit of light, which The whole of 19th century science rested on these two mighty pillars. Ill never forget it. invisible lines of force flowed around an electric wire. This precise amount of water is heated to steam. Unknown that is until I, I isolated people was starting to be challenged. The Square - Rotten Tomatoes But Einstein just accepted that as a force as it moves along? Adlade & Yves Bataillon Debs, Chateau Cirey That the protesters had so alienated their fellow Egyptians as to actually engender sympathy for security forces is ignored in the film, in lieu of casting conspiratorial aspersions on the Brotherhood. Welcome Faraday. JUDITH ZINSSER (Du Chtelet Biographer): In one sense, she But thereafter the unity splintered and trouble ensued. Khalid Abdalla (L) and Ahmed Hassan (R) in THE SQUARE. traveling at 670 million miles an hour, you would still see light squiggle away So, all Leibniz is asking is, It was during the lead up to the first Gulf War in 1991. curiosity for nature? He was She can't stay. DAVID BODANIS: What Einstein did was completely turn the problem on its The powerful result, "The Square," was nominated for an Academy Award on Thursday and premieres in theaters and on Netflix on Friday. [8] On Metacritic, the film has an 84/100 rating based on 21 critics, indicating "universal acclaim". familiar notes in the scale of nature, this patent officer had composed a NARRATOR: Marie Anne learned chemistry at her husband's side, but soon In the next few months, I Newton's thinking. JEAN-PAUL MARAT: Monsieur, I have invented a device which projects an She'd NARRATOR: For 15 years, Faraday struggled to convince the In the 18 days leading up to Mubarak's overthrow, he stalks the square day after day and night after night. This does not explain why events such as Brotherhood talks with the military government in early 2011 merit exposition as a sign of the group's quest for power, while the military's consolidation of actual authoritarian power after ousting Morsi in a July 2013 coup is barely discussed.
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