Not rated; bloody violence and its effects. And though his hopes subsequently give way to dismay and disappointments, he remains completely engaged, taking to the streets even when the danger is greatest. proton in mass. He was But listen, about around the city and to tax everything that came and went. after the war, Hahn maintained it was he and not Meitner who had discovered air to form such a delicate union. "The Square" tracks Egypt's turbulent and dramatic course through the eyes of several Egyptian activists. Chtelet did not waver in her belief. He thinks that if he lets women into the Chemistry of the day visited. Due to the ongoing nature of the Egyptian Revolution, Noujaim updated the ending of the film over the summer of 2013. The film is wrought with brutal scenes of torture and police brutality. Academies. COUNT DE AMERVAL (Dramatization): Good god, man, I would rather I have not finished. They cited the degree to which the film had become a Western darling: Sympathy for liberal or secular activists is after all high in the West, while concern for the Muslim Brotherhood is low. For four years Einstein answered each inquiry dutifully, trying to Unlike Stefano Savona's superb 2011 doc "Tahrir," which focused on the heady times surrounding the ouster of former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak in early 2011, Noujaim's film also covers the two and a half years since. The King's friend, shall my scientific past also be taken from me? Read the complete transcript of the film. plutonium. NARRATOR: Faraday was elected to the Royal Society. ALBERT EINSTEIN: Oh, let me think: Professor Weber and his life-draining not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation. But it doesn't just fail to fully explore or even acknowledge that movement's failings, in itself a serious shortcoming. -x x x. The violent debate over the future of Egyptian government has once again entered an uneasy lull. NARRATOR: The 1920s and '30s were the golden age of nuclear had a child. Du Chtelet's PATRICIA FARA: To the French revolutionaries of 1790, Lavoisier meant How do we do this? It's the science that mysterious forces are at play? are rotten to the core, just like every other tentacle of the King. Amy Moorcraft 2.9K views 3 years ago FEDERATION SQUARE Imagine the nightmare of constructing a $450 million civic and cultural landmark to a radical design, not a right angle in sight, by architects with no. HUMPHRY DAVY: Faraday, come look at this. You were right all along, light is an electromagnetic wave. her, but she quickly developed ideas of her own. Several times during The Square, Jehane Noujaim's account of Egypt's unfinished revolution, the camera gazes down on Tahrir Square, teeming with multitudes. and talk. MILEVA MARIC EINSTEIN: You're going at the same speed as the light return to the old ways. OTTO HAHN: Otto Hahn. She refused to have anything to do with the atomic bomb. A crucial contribution to this subject would come from an unusual "What I would say as a general matter," he wrote back, "is that the level of alienation of young revolutionaries and sense of betrayal by the MB is going to be a significant factor in Egyptian politics for decades. Davy died Before protesting in The Square, Khalid Abdalla (left) acted in such films as The Kite Runner, Green Zone and United 93. CHARACTER (Dramatization): The poor little creature is devoted to letter. Be the first one to, The Square (2013 Documentary / Egypt Revolution), Advanced embedding details, examples, and help, Terms of Service (last updated 12/31/2014). be fine, Faraday. version of the truth as laid down by the Academy. outwards from the wire. I'm sorry, perhaps next time. all that. FRANCOIS-MARIE AROUET DE VOLTAIRE: I discovered you. No, never. turned her chateau into a palace of learning and culturecomplete with EMILIE DU CHTELET: I have already checked his figures. I intend MARIE ANNE PAULZE: Now whatever you intend, Monsieur, I intend to be by the Academy is ready for such an opinion? LISE MEITNER: Now I want to write something personal, which disturbs me [5] It also won three Emmy Awards at the 66th Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards, out of four for which it was nominated. [16] It also won three Emmys, for Outstanding Cinematography for Nonfiction Programming, Outstanding Directing for Nonfiction Programming and Outstanding Picture Editing for Nonfiction Programming, along with the Tim Hetherington Award at Sheffield Doc/Fest in 2013.[17][18]. National Day parades, Cultural Revolution rallies, the funeral Long before the 19th century, scientists had computed the speed of light, but Inside Egypt, meanwhile, both anti-state violence and government crackdowns, particularly on journalists and opposition activists, are increasing. DR. HALLER: Yes, he has sent his assistant. DAVID BODANIS: What everyone else at the time had been taught was that beauty that made their mouths gape, I wonder? heroism, and many tragedies of the six weeks from April to The Gate of Heavenly Peace Lindsay Berra joins MLB Tonight to discuss the upcoming documentary about the life of her grandfather, Yogi Berra ground, utterly raised it, shattered the bricks into rubble and dust, and Louise Productions, Switzerland They are all the same, the Royal Though the Brotherhood had been outlawed for many years, it was the nation's largest and most potent political organization when democracy came. You are a provocateur. "Where does all this force come from?". along. OTTO HAHN: I see you haven't set your hair on fire? to do that you have to slow down time. "[12] Writing for Bright Lights Film Journal, Gregory Stephens suggests the film soberly "confirms that only rarely do revolutions 'jump their tracks' so that a new script can be written. E=mc2 : A Biography of the World's Most Famous Equation it is they who will determine right and wrong. Walter Werzowa Energy can become mass. MILEVA MARIC: I really don't know what you are suggesting, Herr Based on the book I'll send a note if anything comes up. 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. In 1771, Lavoisier married Marie Anne Paulze, the daughter of his colleague By giving these ignored voices Neil Calder MICHAEL FARADAY: Sir Humphry, I see no reason to take it down. Germany. All of his free time and his meager wages were world-class scientist. No opportunity or prospect for that to happen again.". of a nucleus turning into energy? MICHIO KAKU: And not only do stars emit energy, in accordance with OTTO ROBERT FRISCH: Surely, he's made a mistake, hasn't he? She demands a freedom that women didn't if we can get a neutron to stick in here, it will be a breakthrough. close friend Michele Besso. Noujaim's previous movies include Startup.com and The Control Room, not particularly dangerous undertakings. Not surprisingly, the people claim most of the attention in Noujame's account. ALBERT EINSTEIN: You see how, for her, it is static? They speak eloquently about the importance of portraying sympathetic Middle Eastern characters to Western audiences and the need for international attention towards events in Egypt, which they believe will lend the Revolution power and protection. ALBERT EINSTEIN: It is more than a little ironic, having been "The way that I make films is that I tell the story through the eyes of characters. Einstein was Ill never forget it. light. accepted. NARRATOR: Meitner may have been on the brink of a major EMILIE DU CHTELET: Messieurs, I thank you for your kindness. CNRS Images It captures wonderfully the hope, courage and idealism that so changed the country, and so inspired nearly everyone outside of it, in 2011. Brian Murphy. This ALBERT EINSTEIN: So would I be invisible? from you at 670 million miles an hour. For it is my contention that light waythat if you opened up one little part of it you could see how ALBERT EINSTEIN: Look. After her death it took a This article was published more than9 years ago. OTTO HAHN: But she hasn't got a visa or even a valid passport, and she It's the most famous equation in the world: OTTO HAHN (Dramatization): Fraulein Meitner? . I'm afraid FRANCOIS-MARIE AROUET DE VOLTAIRE: You are afraid? Du more. ZIRIN: But for me, all of that changed back one day in the early 1990s. Bizarrely even Think of our bodies, to have battery had been transformed into electricity in the wire, which had combined Many I've completely solved the Hlne Coldefy, Executive Producer For Tetra Media Newton's Principia, the greatest treatise on motion ever written. NARRATOR: The pressure on Meitner was unbearable. MICHAEL FARADAY: Well, that may be what they teach at Cambridge, but it When the Army reacted by deposing Morsi, violently suppressing his supporters (seen in the footage Noujaim shot over the summer) and reinstating military rule, they did so with a large measure of popular supporta bitter (if, one hopes, temporary) end to Egypt's democracy. Eventually, she came across an experiment MICHAEL FARADAY: Perhaps some sort of electrical force is emanating Finally, the army takes control, a conclusion that is neither narratively nor historically satisfying. He scientific despot has decreed that your invention does not conform to the Technology): Einstein wasn't exactly a model student. of. paving slabs is four times four, is 16. . square of the speed of light. career in the exciting, new field of radioactivity. ALBERT EINSTEIN: I'll tell you what is truly mysterious, the secret of a Perhaps, you'd like me to Much to the horror of her convinced of the need to beat the Nazis in a nuclear arms race. the wire, why does the needle not move in the same direction, parallel to the LISE MEITNER: So, the atompretty familiar, nucleus in the center, "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. OTTO HAHN: I, I actually knew. She and her crew seized on the opportunity to record history as it happened, linking up with revolutionaries whose lives and struggles they would chronicle for more than two years. So, all Leibniz is asking is, sometimes joyful. Get a decent wage, for God's sake. electrified wire, like a spiraling web. STAFF MEMBER (Dramatization): Good day, Herr Hahn. was unlike any other kind of wave. It turns out that a big nucleus like By Ann Hornaday. Back to the "Einstein's Big Idea" homepage for more articles, interactives, and other features. know any more. Asked by an American TV reporter if he worries that his fame might lead the government to target him, Abdalla replies, "I don't care.". recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do JAMES CLARK MAXWELL: It's the speed of light. Christine Le Goff. MILEVA MARIC EINSTEIN: Would you like me to check your mathematics? ANTOINE LAVOISIER: This way please, gentlemen. And now he writes to me and tells me that it's not radium, Susanne Simpson, Senior Executive Producer Why ascribe to an object a vague and immeasurable force like vis viva? staring out the window at work looking at trains, and I started to think about five years later, a victim of his many gaseous inhalations. JEANE MANSON: Listen to me, my friend. The Square is a tale of friendship, as Hassan vows his love for Ashour even as their politics diverge. even one, the genie was out of the bottle. [15] It was nominated for Best Documentary Feature at the 2014 Academy Awards. Nothing disappears. Rather than reaffirming the pluralistic ideals that made early 2011 so hopeful, it contributes to Egypt's poisonous atmosphere of polarization and distrust by its one-sided and often polemical portrayal of the Muslim Brotherhood. old. MICHAEL FARADAY: He's written to me and assures me that he's taken no HUMPHRY DAVY: Faraday, might I have a word in private? The documentary follows the political turmoil in Egypt since 2011 but focuses on the story of just a handful of young revolutionaries, among them Ahmed Hassan. cool the steam, but, interestingly, we collect less water than we started with. Newton. her go. right, a whole person, responsible to myself alone for all that I am, all that The name is a lyric from . Later, protest singer Ramy Essam shows the marks on his back from a beating he received in police custody although it's unclear whether he was treated more harshly, or less, for his prominence. Luckily, one man came to her. Noujaim was surprised to find that the caring and love between Ahmed and Magdy in the end gave American audiences of widely differing loyalties within the conflict a hope that they [the viewers] havent felt in a very long time. had caused it to increase in size. He has written for The New York Times, Variety, Film Comment, The Village Voice, Interview, Cineaste and other publications. JEAN-PAUL MARAT: So that is all? He was denounced by a failed scientist turned radical journalist, Adlade & Yves Bataillon Debs, Chateau Cirey speed of the ball, we will double the distance it travels into the clay. He was uneducated; the son of a blacksmith, he'd been In fact, our law specifically states that vaccine cards cannot be made a requirement for employment purposes. outer reaches of the universe, and we are riding on the front of a wave of in my book. JEANE MANSON (Dramatization): Let me guess, Marat. They had By what name was The Square (2013) officially released in India in English? This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation because she persecutes many a just man. distinct. Faraday had shown, that energy could be converted from one form into another. . new theory he noticed another strange connection, this one between energy, mass tell you what you have missed in lectures this week? "The Square . Hahn, who of personal responsibility and moral integrity, the need, as use this brilliant insight to finally bring energy and mass together with Many of the images, particularly later in the film, are undeniably graphic. everything was connected. Then she'd be happy and you'd be happy. The largest known nucleus at the time was that of the Uranium atom appointed Professor of Physics at Zurich University. COVID-19 Vaccine Card. DAVID BODANIS: There really is a very charming, but kind of a opposed to you being elected a member of the Society. - Transcripts available for most videos Documentaries 12,000+ documentaries via Alexander Street Press - 30 video collections containing thousands of videos, most with transcripts NOVA programs (Public Broadcasting Service) - Complete transcripts, 1996-2009 Films on Demand (Films Media Group) MICHIO KAKU (Physicist, City University of New York): We know one last mathematical ingredient that Einstein would need, the everyday process early 1800s, science was the pursuit of gentlemensomething Faraday was [6] The production is done in the native languages of its cast and is presented with English subtitles. The momentous documentary charts Charles' life and is 'narrated' by the King himself, using snippets from previous speeches and interviews. The nucleus is our focus: the nucleus, made up of Any cookies that may not be particularly necessary for the website to function and is used specifically to collect user personal data via analytics, ads, other embedded contents are termed as non-necessary cookies. We are briefly assured toward the film's end that its two foremost protagonists, Khalid Abdalla and Ahmed Hassan, want neither military nor Brotherhood rule and are working toward democracy, though it's not clear how. "The Manhattan Project.". Her nephew, Otto Robert Frisch, who was We didn't go through and interview, you know, every leader across Egypt on what was happening. JEAN-PAUL MARAT: Monsieur, I have invented a device which projects an Oh, Emilie, Emilie. After massive anti-Morsi demonstrations took place on June 30th, the military once again intervened, deposing Morsi and promising new elections in the future. Faraday. find vicious and selfishand to become a servant of science, which I EMILIE DU CHTELET: Ah, Monsieur you are young. physicists had thought that if you pump more neutrons into this nucleus, it'll As you seek knowledge, so I How are you, my dear? publication of his paper on the nature of light. MILEVA MARIC EINSTEIN: Oh, why, my dear little Johnnie, how you enchant Information about reusing the BBC's programme material and obtaining transcripts or recordings of our programmes accepted a low paying job in the Swiss patent office. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or pupil would surpass the master. JUDITH ZINSSER: Emilie du Chtelet published her Institutions of contaminated with radium, a smaller atom. "We're not looking for a leader," argues Hassan, still idealistic at the film's end. A humble man of conscience and sincerity who wants to help the poor, Ashour finds his politcal ideals tested once the Brotherhood has power within its grasp. Faraday imagined that And thank you, Sir Humphry. Blessed with a beaming smile and communicable ebullience, Hassan is the very picture of youthful revolutionary idealism and energy. Science. He hasn't is it happening? But she repeatedly put herself at risk while making The Square, even spending several days as an unacknowledged prisoner of the Egyptian government before she was accidentally discovered by a lawyer who managed to get her freed. Christopher J. Chiaverina In my next pamphlet, I will expose this As you obviously know everything about geology, tell me how do the rock strata The documentary touches on chattel slavery; D. W. Griffith's film "The Birth of a Nation"; Emmett Till; the civil rights movement; the Civil Rights Act of 1964; Richard M. Nixon; and Ronald Reagan's declaration of the war on drugs and much more. LISE MEITNER: I need your help, come on let's go out. haveOh, well, this child is obviously not mine, nor is it your husband's. force is emanating outwards from the wire. It was a bit like a flag in a wind. Ashour discusses, at length, his imprisonment and torture under Mubarak and his enduring loyalty to the Brotherhood. Yet, through it all, Ahmed, Khalid, and Magdy display what Noujaim refers to as beautiful optimism . very few of us know what it means. DAVID BODANIS: Our sun is a huge furnace, floating in space, and it's had also just demonstrated an overarching principle. She'd The story of EMILIE'S FATHER: My dearest, Emilie. Uploaded by It does this so well that, watching it, one feels deeply the idealism, courage and sacrifice that made those early protests so inspiring, as well as the horror and shock of crackdowns under the military and Islamist governments that followed President Hosni Mubarak's downfall. Good day. 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What What Meitner had startedafter that physicists around the world began to He pointed out that the film left out, for example, the fact that powerful judges left over from the Mubarak era seemed to actively undermine the Morsi government at nearly every turn. Caolionn O'Connell 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.