After all the buzz, I finally saw this movie on Starz... the best I can say is too much negative energy going on in this movie, and it's highly unrealistic...
It seems to me like, all the Turkish characters portrayed in this movie are either sadist,psychopath, or well... overly exaggerated as evil... And all the armenian characters are ... well all good...
The Turkish characters in this movie are so disappointingly ill faced, instead of hating them and feeling pity about the poor armenians I started wondering why this movie started to feel so disappointingly unrealistic -even surreal-... even the lead young character Raffi's father, who happens to be a terrorist killing diplomats, is good... because he has a good 'cause... a terrorist is a terrorist and no good cause can make him/her good in my book, or make me feel bad about terrorists and terror... as a new yorker, I hate terrorism and whoever supports it... did i type hate ? I mean, do not tolerate... guess all the negative energy in this movie is taking me over...
Also in this movie, there's a reference to a supposedly Adolf Hitler statement... "Who, after all, speaks today of the annihilation of the Armenians?" The director is willing to gain support of the jews against all "evil" turks, trying to link to the holocaust... and wants us to come to the conclusion that the holocaust is related to the actions of turks against armenians... Hitler was a student of history after all...
I never heard of this before, so I decided to do some research on the net.. and I found this book while searching google for Armenia and Hitler: "ARMENIA--SECRETS OF A "CHRISTIAN" TERRORIST STATE-- by Samuel A. Weems
"Mr. Weems, a US citizen of Scottish descent and a former district attorney (prosecutor) and judge, aims with his new book to draw attention to the fact that Armenia fabricates falsehoods and supports terrorist activity to secure US financial assistance. He believes that the Armenian state is a dictatorship and has established an international network to support Armenian terror. What's more, Weems believes that during World War II many Armenians gave active support to Hitler's forces and fought shoulder-to-shoulder with Nazis in the Northern Caucasus and the Netherlands. In addition, Weems uncovered evidence in Armenian newspapers proving that Nazi secret agents working in Turkey in 1941-1944 were aided by Armenians."
how about that?
Interesting, and I don't know whether all this's true or not... Maybe it's as true as the history told in this movie... but I must say this... one shouldn't base his/her opinions on so called historical facts shown in a movie... google is our friend, let's do some research and read...
And one more thing, hate does not bring peace and love...
peace :)
Al
It seems to me like, all the Turkish characters portrayed in this movie are either sadist,psychopath, or well... overly exaggerated as evil... And all the armenian characters are ... well all good...
The Turkish characters in this movie are so disappointingly ill faced, instead of hating them and feeling pity about the poor armenians I started wondering why this movie started to feel so disappointingly unrealistic -even surreal-... even the lead young character Raffi's father, who happens to be a terrorist killing diplomats, is good... because he has a good 'cause... a terrorist is a terrorist and no good cause can make him/her good in my book, or make me feel bad about terrorists and terror... as a new yorker, I hate terrorism and whoever supports it... did i type hate ? I mean, do not tolerate... guess all the negative energy in this movie is taking me over...
Also in this movie, there's a reference to a supposedly Adolf Hitler statement... "Who, after all, speaks today of the annihilation of the Armenians?" The director is willing to gain support of the jews against all "evil" turks, trying to link to the holocaust... and wants us to come to the conclusion that the holocaust is related to the actions of turks against armenians... Hitler was a student of history after all...
I never heard of this before, so I decided to do some research on the net.. and I found this book while searching google for Armenia and Hitler: "ARMENIA--SECRETS OF A "CHRISTIAN" TERRORIST STATE-- by Samuel A. Weems
"Mr. Weems, a US citizen of Scottish descent and a former district attorney (prosecutor) and judge, aims with his new book to draw attention to the fact that Armenia fabricates falsehoods and supports terrorist activity to secure US financial assistance. He believes that the Armenian state is a dictatorship and has established an international network to support Armenian terror. What's more, Weems believes that during World War II many Armenians gave active support to Hitler's forces and fought shoulder-to-shoulder with Nazis in the Northern Caucasus and the Netherlands. In addition, Weems uncovered evidence in Armenian newspapers proving that Nazi secret agents working in Turkey in 1941-1944 were aided by Armenians."
how about that?
Interesting, and I don't know whether all this's true or not... Maybe it's as true as the history told in this movie... but I must say this... one shouldn't base his/her opinions on so called historical facts shown in a movie... google is our friend, let's do some research and read...
And one more thing, hate does not bring peace and love...
peace :)
Al