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  1. Celebrate? Why? This movie is best buried and forgotten about. It achieved nothing, neither artistically, nor politically, and actually I regret seeing it. In fact for me this movie was an outright embarrassment for its ridiculous content, and desperate attempt at trying to attracting attention and “looking cool” by using soft-core porn in an attempted Genocide awareness film. Let’s face it. This was an opportunity for us and Egoyan and Co. blew it on our behalf using a few celebrities. For “open minded” and “modern” diaspora though, this movie made perfect sense I suppose, as a predecessor to the Kardashian hoopla which would follow, and which continues to smear our culture into the mud.

  2. I agree with you completely. A movie about the Armenian Genocide should be about the history and the brutality of the perpetrators of this crime against their victims and not some movie within a movie that barely and at best indirectly touched upon the main message of the movie which should have been the main focus throughout the movie. In the context of this confusing movie, I also think the rape scene was not necessary, distasteful and disgusting. We Armenians, most of us if not all, know what happened and how it happened. This movie should have been about educating the general public about the genocide and its brutality and I don’t think it achieved either of those goals at all.

    For example, and as an analogy, several movies were made about the life and the crucifixion of Christ but none of them came even close to showing the brutality displayed than the 2004 movie “The Passion of the Christ” by Mel Gibson. He made an indelible impression on his viewers about the reality of the brutality and the suffering displayed. Unlike the other movies, people who saw this particular version of the movie would never forget what they saw. I get really tired of movies on Armenian Genocide in which the main focus is some other event, such as a love story, and the events of 1915 are only mentioned on the sidelines. We must do away with all that unnecessary fluff and show what happened and how it happened in its raw form in order to have a lasting affect!

  3. Whether you approve of the film or not to suggest it has anything in common with the Kardashians is pure idiocy. And how to understand someone who says the rape scene was distasteful and disgusting (as opposed to a tasteful rape scene?) yet complains that he wants the genocide shown in its brutality and rawness?

    • Ridiculous charge, without even comprehending what I said. I am talking about the liberals in our midst, recklessly disseminating what they believe to be “art” without caring or thinking about the consequences. And you also didn’t get Ararat’s post, which clearly stated that the brutality of the Genocide must be shown to the world. And that does not mean that it has to reach pornographic levels to show rape scenes.

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