The film is set during the fourth century where an Katherine is kidnapped by the Roman Emperor Marcelus, who comes across her family and takes a liking to her. The basic story centres on two people Katherine of Alexandria (an Arabian girl, living in Rome with apparently no links to Alexandria whatsoever) and her childhood friend Constantine who would go on to become the Roman emperor who embraced Christianity (who far from being the son of Roman nobility is as much a peasant nomad as Katherine for some reason). Generally this was a terrible film that even Peter O’Toole couldn’t save, mostly because it did a terrible job of drawing together any kind of themes or points and the plot was incomprehensible. Referring to my notes once more it apparently took me forty eight minutes before I started to understand what on earth was going on. Far more than I should have written for any film, and if it weren’t for the fact that I was determined to start blogging again and Katherine of Alexandria is a decent subject for said blogging, then I would have turned the film off for being incredibly incoherent. While re-reading the notes I made I noticed that I’d written, ‘ I don’t know what’s going on here’ a lot. Needless to say the hype was short lived. That and Peter O’Toole was in it so I was hyped. Katherine had a chapter all to herself as one of the most influential and prominent female saints of the middle ages. I was really looking forward to watching this as female hagiography (saints’ lives) was the focus of my thesis and St.
Recently I watched Katherine of Alexandria (or Decline of an Empire depending on which part of the world you are from).
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I have a lot of time to catch up on films and television series at the moment, so there’s that at least.
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