The Physician (2014)
England, 1021. Rob Cole, a boy born in a miserable mining town, swears to become a physician and vanquish disease and death. His harsh path of many years, a quest for knowledge besieged by countless challenges and sacrifices, leads him to the remote Isfahan, in Persia, where he meets Ibn Sina, the greatest healer of his time.
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The character of Rob Cole is not very Strong as it could have been. He has no flaws. Actors have done their part very well, but the script is not the best of all. The story is otherwise very insightful and the film, very entertaining.
I really enjoyed the first half of the movie. Even though the acting is not amazing the film has really good visuals and tempo immersing the spectator into the story. Unfortunately, the film at some point becomes an anti-Islam religion pamphlet, altering completely most of the historical facts. The film is based on a novel by Noah Gordon who is Jewish. That would be such a negligible fact if I would not have seen the film. Is the historical manipulation politically unpurposeful?
The film tried to show a part of "Ebn e Sina"'s life but it is not true and is just an imagination of writer. A short part of "Ebn e Sina"'s life was in Isfahan but not in the way that movie showed and he came back to the Hamedan after that until the death from a sickness. I thinks every body can do a simple search about that period of time and read the history. But another thing is about the "Rob Cool" (I'm not sure about the dictate). I could not find any relational info about such a student and believe this is another imagination of the writer. I hope the producers and writers try to be more cautious and careful about historic films and do not show the lies to the people. Because it will cause of give away the trust of people t them and the rest of their products.
The book is a beautiful, sweeping novel that looks at religion, medicine and humanity 1000 years ago. Unfortunately, the movie bears no resemblance to the book. The screenwriter took the general idea of the novel, the same character names (for the most part) and wrote a completely different story. This is hugely disappointing for a fan of the book. If I hadn't already read it, I may have enjoyed this movie. However, in my opinion, there is so much underlying background information about many characters and 'the way things worked' missing, that the movie feels shallow to me. One of the most gratifying themes to read was the delving into and comparing of religions and cultures. This only exists at a surface level in this film.