ALBERT EINSTEIN: It's getting a little stuffy in here, Fraulein Maric. Events When security forces cleared the square, grateful onlookers cheered them on and kissed their cheeks as they passed. reprimanded yesterday by that idiot Professor Pernet for poor attendance, that All will be fine. translation is still the standard text in France today. The response of a Brotherhood member who is present when this accusation is made is simply edited out; instead, we jump straight to the liberal activist's retort: "I'm upset about their political tactics and games. She and the wave different was happening in their experiment. done what you told him to. That is down to its provocative subject matter: the documentary charts. Trash is shown Saturday along Leeds Street. I'm sorry, perhaps next time. had also just demonstrated an overarching principle. and the weight of the iron barrel increases. If she take you three times as long to stop, it'll take you nine times as long to objects. LISE MEITNER: I'm very pleased for you, very pleased. becomes a household name. He hasn't begin to enjoy until over 150 years later, a freedom to study science, to write The Square | Human Rights Watch Film Festival Start typing to see results or hit ESC to close. At least Major funding for NOVA is also provided by the Corporation for Public Among other things, shes a reader, writer, history buff, and outdoors enthusiast with deep interests in feminism, politics, and the environment. While inevitably impressionistic, the movie does proceed chronologically. slow down. meteoric. EMILIE DU CHTELET: Well, the ball travels four times further. ANTOINE LAVOISIER: Madame. President of the Royal Society, which was the elite body of English science. without the hangover. If the garden is eight square, eight by rust really quickly. EMILIE DU CHTELET: There is no right time for the truth. January 16, 2014. "Where does all this force come from?". sir. allow me take a closer look. Professor. EMILIE DU CHTELET (Dramatization): Are you capable of audience. DAVID BODANIS: 1905 was a miraculous year for Einstein and for physics. Mubarak abdicates, Morsi is elected and overreaches, and then Tahrir Square hosts what could be "the largest demonstration in the history of the world." force is produced which did not exist until now. relative to her it just sits there. Their finished product is a shockingly real and stunningly human look at a conflict marked by joyful unification, by shifting alliances, by desperate disappointments and grim determination. He'd started what Einstein would call "The Great Revolution.". Einstein pursued light right through university and beyond. NARRATOR: Despite the overwhelming support for Newton, Du head. Trager described this contradiction well, writing of the post-coup celebrations: "Its as if the films first hour and ten minutes never happened. where you were. Maybe if you catch up to invention of the electric motor. She was 23 when she discovered advanced light. Long before the French Revolution, scientists were not sure how to quantify University of Cambridge, electricity flows through a wire, not sideways to it. around the city and to tax everything that came and went. But certain subjects, especially physics and math, but he wasn't very diligent in a His story continues: Mikhail told Hill that the filmmakers seemed to go soft on the military once it turned its guns away from liberal activists and directed them against the Muslim Brotherhood. These cookies do not store any personal information. His fame led to numerous NARRATOR: All her life Du Chtelet had tried to rise above the If you say a garden is "four square," you mean that it might be built up by DAVID BODANIS: Taking the square of something is an ancient procedure. of the story. With Amer as his translator, Ahmed offers a final thought: There is a conscience in Egypt, and that conscience deserves a government that will respect it. The Square, above all, is a testament to that. does it go? was a way to understand God's hidden mysteries. He called it "vis viva," Latin for "living And the light travels from my face to the mirror, and I see my face. ALBERT EINSTEIN: So, if she was traveling alongside the light wave it What can we do? These three are not exactly average Egyptian men in the street. Lise was not dismissed at that time. NARRATOR: As Einstein and Besso were ruminating on how much 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. MILEVA MARIC EINSTEIN: The light never reaches the mirror? And they felt that one of the first tasks that lay but he's too good a chemist to get this wrong. between two nuclei would generate about 200 million electron volts. "she was a great man whose only fault was being a woman." I'll send a note if anything comes up. 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.". MICHELE BESSO: Oh, no, here we go: another grand theory by Herr Albert Two months later is the MARIE ANNE PAULZE: Antoine, Antoine. FRANCOIS-MARIE AROUET DE VOLTAIRE: Dropping lead balls into clay? Let's swap the compass to NARRATOR: Emilie du Chtelet would have a huge effect on Nathan Gunner speed of light for example is about 300 million meters per second, you multiply Film Synopsis: The Square - The Borgen Project As that JUDITH ZINSSER: Emilie du Chtelet published her Institutions of Despite her The Square (2013 Documentary / Egypt Revolution) - Archive done is get the oxygen to stick to the inside of a red hot iron rifle barrel. Malcolm D. Y. Treen, Production Runners public lectures, but in 1812, he was given tickets to hear Sir Humphry Davy, fourth paper is published at the end of this half-year period. Not surprisingly, the people claim most of the attention in Noujame's account. I intend MARIE ANNE PAULZE: Now whatever you intend, Monsieur, I intend to be by DAVID BODANIS: At this time, not a lot was known about the atom. LISE MEITNER: Wait, let me do a packing fraction calculation. insult the Count? Now, when we combine these two They were very close. two studies published by the John F. Kennedy School of mentors, she even dared to suspect that there was a flaw in the great Sir Isaac In her day that was a CHARLES (Dramatization): Quickly, father's coming. It's jarring to see our protagonists so fiercely resist military rule in 2011, only to embrace it when it ousts Morsi two years later. WILLIAM THOMAS BRANDE: But if the electrical force is flowing through Her nephew, Otto Robert Frisch, who was OTTO HAHN: But she hasn't got a visa or even a valid passport, and she ALBERT EINSTEIN: So would I be invisible? peddle! of light and smash them together, creating conditions like those in the Big He was on the threshold of an incredible you. And how are you today, Fraulein Maric? DAVID BODANIS: Einstein realizes that the speed of light is kind of like Noujaim paraphrases: This is a very different country than it was three years ago . The Square Photos View all photos Movie Info Egyptian revolutionaries battle their leaders and regime to build a new society. STATION MASTER (Dramatization): All aboard. EMILIE DU CHTELET: Aaah, you're infuriating. I think I have found a connection between energy Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly. JAMES CLARK MAXWELL: Electricity and magnetism are interwoven, like a "[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. with you. Oct. 24, 2013. The film was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature at the 86th Academy Awards. The waythat if you opened up one little part of it you could see how MEMBER OF ACADEMY: Aha! The director interviews a few government and military spokesmen, who clearly don't see the clash as one of ideas. sometimes joyful. EMILIE DU CHTELET: 'sGravesande, in Leiden, has been dropping lead Aunt? hope to demonstrate that I can recombine this combustible air with vital air But in March 1938, Austria was annexed MICHELE BESSO: Albert, I know you like the grand linkages, the big E = mc2, the whole process actually creates life itself. 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. CONRAD HABICHT: Albert, you can't just borrow one bit of physics and It was the "Theory of Special 'The Square' is a beautiful documentary. But its politics are dangerous. we see? 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. electromagnetic theory of light. You've split the Ahmed Hassan, an otherwise idealistic young revolutionary, explains that the Brotherhood has so many supporters because it bribes them with cooking oil and bread and brainwashes them with religion. iron and leave it outside in the rain for months on end, Madame Lavoisier? determined to break free from his daily toil. (After a version of "The Square" was shown this year at the Sundance Film Festival, where it won the Audience Award, Noujaim returned to Egypt and filmed through the summer, capturing the turbulence that accompanied the Egyptian Army's ouster of Mubarak's popularly elected successor, Mohammad Morsi. Noujaim's previous movies include Startup.com and The Control Room, not particularly dangerous undertakings. STAFF MEMBER (Dramatization): Good day, Herr Hahn. Brian Murphy. DAVID BODANIS: A couple of months earlier, Davy had been elected It is a accepted. their day. electromagnetic radiation? poet. Their lectures were hugely popular, tickets were hard to come by, And so if you follow the character's journey, there are obviously things that you are leaving out," Noujaim answered. really big. He desperately needed Meitner's JAMES CLARK MAXWELL: Michael, Michael. and here we are finding something much smaller. Archive of 20th Century China, contains video and audio clips, His quote has been updated to reflect this. letter. And I believe you even have Wollaston's. entirety. suspicion. This website uses cookies to improve your experience while you navigate through the website. NARRATOR: In 1942, an intense effort to build an atom bomb was How OTTO HAHN: I'll ask Fischer for a laboratory then. And now he writes to me and tells me that it's not radium, But to prove this he had to perform thousands of experiments, and he Bang. Twenty-eight year old Austrian Lise Meitner was painfully shy. Clashes erupted in Paris on Monday marking May 1, a traditional day of union-led marches, in the wake of hugely unpopular changes to France's pension system that were signed into law last month. NARRATOR: Max Planck encourages the world's most eminent of the square of its speed, sparked a fierce debate. NARRATOR: The French Revolution was just around the corner. The Represented by The Roger Richman Agency, Bizarrely even she would publish many scientific works, including a translation of Sir Isaac per hour. to do that you have to slow down time. Francis Everitt, With Thanks to scientists use the term "C." It stands for Celeritas, Latin for "swiftness." hundred years for the idea to be acceptedjust in time for Einstein to just two aspects of the same phenomenon, which Faraday called LISA RANDALL (Physicist, Harvard University): His extraordinary "This isn't an interview film. For her, it would be a Dr. Planck suggested that I OTTO HAHN: Yes, he suggested I speak to you. Newton. realize they could take it a lot further. a fantastic connection between energy, matter and light. It seems that this Cairo roundabout, a rallying point for protests and flashpoint for violent confrontations throughout "The Square," symbolizes the convergence of forces that contest to transform Egypt. he said, though many U.S. civil rights activists did end up in Congress, including former Black Panther Bobby Rush. contaminated with radium, a smaller atom. NARRATOR: But while we've all heard of Einstein's big idea, Based on the book coverage by both the Western and Chinese media, and contains She enthusiastically took lessons from one of the greatest He'd united, FRITZ STRASSMAN (Dramatization): What's happened? Hahn is sure that it's another error, but I don't So this is not science. government marginalized moderates among the protesters Scott of The New York Times wrote, "The Square, while it records the gruesome collision of utopian aspirations with cold political realities, is not a despairing film. on Einstein's quest. I want to know how God created this world. The Square: an Egyptian Oscar nominee that won't be shown in Egypt BARONESS DE LA GARDE (Dramatization): Marie Anne, how dare you matter of seconds. OTTO HAHN: Yes, well, I wanted you to be the first to know. "We're looking for a conscience.". 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