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Commentary better than the movie *Spoilers*


I did not like the movie.
The commentary was much better.

The commentary explained that history is very opinionated, everyone seems to be masters of a particular subject because of what they read or seen and their opions vary widely. That is great! I wish that was more conveyed in the movie, like a narrative, so I understood what was going on.


The objects he spoke about could be just as well been in the Scopes Monkey Trial Movie, which is a very good movie (IMHO), though this movie give good insight to something I never hear of and the speculation on the holocaust.

Letting someone go for heroine is IMHO unforgiveable. IMHO
I understand the conflicts. How history is much left to opinion.
Not alot of that was conveyed to me in the movie. It was more a family stuggle and some kind of Armenian/Turkish Struggle. I was thinking that the Security guard was seceretly Turkish and was going to kill him to prevent the film from being released.

As far as moving around between reality and movie, that was brilliant!
I just wish the movie was better.

I had the feeling that somehow the movie and what really happened were going to be 2 differnt things.
Somehow he was showing the movie and what was really happening.
I would have rather seen that. It would have been the perfect climax, but what he did is to be commended. It was a great idea!


That is all.

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I don't necessarily agree on how it could have been improved, but I'll agree that the movie was extremely mediocre. Just about every 'genocide movie' (hotel rwanda, schindler's list) is better than Ararat I'm sad to say..

and no I'm not a genocide-denier..

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"Security guard was seceretly Turkish and was going to kill him to prevent the film from being released."

No, he was just an english Canadian who in the end understood that losing family members is really hard.
I think Raffi had drugs in at least one of the film canisters.
The english Canadian guard didn't care and let him go.

Now it is up to the viewer to decide if the guard was doing his job, if he was doing the right thing, to place themselves in the guards shoes.

Personally, I believe it is highly unlikely. In the real world, Raffi would be going to jail.

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I agree fully. The commentary made me like the film more and Egoyan as well.

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