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Data inscrierii: 26/Oct/2007 Mesaje: 112
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Trimis: 01/12/2007 23:06 Titlul subiectului: ARARAT (2002) |
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ARARAT
2002
dir: Atom Egoyan
cast:
David Alpay................ Raffi
Christopher Plummer... David (Customs officer)
Charles Aznavour........ Edward Sarojan (film director)
Elias Koteas................ Ali (Turkish actor playingJevdet Bey)
Marie-Josée Corze....... Celia (Rafi's girlfriend)
Arsinée Khanjian.......... Ani, Raffi's mother
Eric Bogossian.............. Rouben (scriptwriter of "Ararat")
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Even if you were so few this Friday to watch this great film, I've kept my promise and posted a mini-site for ARARAT, [url=http://otoiu.uv.ro/canada/Can_Film/Ararat/Ararat.htm]HERE [/url]
It includes a whole transcript of the film's [url=http://otoiu.uv.ro/canada/Can_Film/Ararat/Ararat_dialogues.htm] dialogues [/url], as well as [url=http://otoiu.uv.ro/canada/Can_Film/Ararat/Ararat_images_1.html]photos of the main characters[/url], as well as over [url=http://otoiu.uv.ro/canada/Can_Film/Ararat/Ararat_images_2.html]20 still shots (stop cadres)[/url] taken from the most significant moments of the film.
I hope they will inspire you to write down some of your impressions about this important fil by Atom Egoyan. |
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Grand_Shaman Administrator


Data inscrierii: 26/Oct/2007 Mesaje: 112
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Trimis: 02/12/2007 10:37 Titlul subiectului: |
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Here's the most condensed summary of the film I could find on the net:
| Citat: | Synopsis :
Des histoires privées qui ont toutes un seul et unique point commun : l'Arménie
Un artiste peint le portrait de sa mère. Un metteur en scĂ©ne rĂ©alise le film de sa vie. Un adolescent passe la douane. Une jeune femme veut comprendre comment son père a disparu. Une confĂ©rencière se sert de l'Histoire pour oublier la sienne. Un acteur interprète un "mĂ©chant" sans en mesurer les consĂ©quences. |
It comes from here: http://www.cdca.asso.fr/cdca/cdca-egoyan.htm |
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Grand_Shaman Administrator


Data inscrierii: 26/Oct/2007 Mesaje: 112
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Trimis: 02/12/2007 10:51 Titlul subiectului: |
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I recommend you to read this [url=http://www.popmatters.com/film/interviews/egoyan-atom-021129.shtml]Interview with Atom Egoyan on the PopMatters website.[/url] There Egoyan illuminate a great number of issues related to ARARAT.
Here are a few selections:
| Citat: | | I think with this film, there's an expectation that the film is going to finally tell the truth of what happened. And actually, that's not what it's about. |
So, then, I ask you, what is this about?
Or, take this:
| Citat: | | Ultimately, histories are transmitted by artifacts, by cultural objects that we can appreciate. But we don't usually understand how they were made. And the decisions behind the gesture to make something and the details that define that object require investigation. That idea threaded into the larger idea of the film, which is that history is not just about telling a story. Someone has to receive it, someone has to listen, someone has to be curious and investigate. |
Or, about the Film-within-film and its "truth":
| Citat: | | The artifact of Edward's film is not "truth." I think of him as someone who is a child of survivors, who has heard the stories as a child, and is making this film at the end of his career. I didn't want to be ironic about his film, to make fun of it, because that would have been tonally wrong. But there are a lot of clues that there is a separation between his film and my film. |
Please, read this interesting interview, and dig out whatever passages you find illuminating (or confusing). |
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Grand_Shaman Administrator


Data inscrierii: 26/Oct/2007 Mesaje: 112
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Trimis: 02/12/2007 10:52 Titlul subiectului: A critique |
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At the same time, I would direct you at a piece of very harsh criticism directed at Egoyan's film, [url=http://www.wsws.org/articles/2002/dec2002/arar-d16.shtml]A terrible story badly told[/url]. Some of it seems fairly prejudiced and injust --maybe because this critique appears on the World Socialist Website, and socialists have been traditionally adverse to the kind of relativization of history that postmodernism is so ready to produce.
However, some of the critic's arguments may make sense. Especially when he detects two apparently irreconciliable positions in Egoyan's film: that of the Postmodernist inclined to question and doubt every representation of history, and that of the Genocide Survivor, who calls for a recovery of his people's lost memory. Here's the discussion:
| Citat: | Egoyan is caught between two positions that are mutually exclusive: on the one hand, as someone initiated into the sacred rites of postmodernism, he essentially denies that objective interpretation of events or phenomena is possible. “The film is very much about interpretation,” he told Filmmaker magazine. “People have the right to interpret an object. They have the license to interpret something as they wish.... Nothing is fixed.”
On the other hand, the filmmaker insists on the reality “of the horrors that befell the Armenian population of Turkey in the years around 1915.” Well, which is it? If indeed “nothing” is fixed, then that includes the facts about the Armenian massacre. |
Well, what do you think of this? |
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sebastianM Junior 2

Data inscrierii: 01/Noi/2007 Mesaje: 40
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Trimis: 10/12/2007 21:26 Titlul subiectului: Accepter, pardonner |
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Mais quel film!
Apres l'avoir vu ces jours, j'y ai beaucoup pense. Commenter le message d'un tel film pourrait devenir vite une forme de preciosite.
Mais il faut courir ce risque, au nom du motto de l'afficche: "Les iages peuvent changer le monde". Mes reflexions seront un peu "a batons rompus", mais si jele sentais, je reviendrais ces jours avec d'autres commentaires.
A mon avis "un genocide" tue principalement la dignite et l'espoir. Toute mon estime pour cette demarche de faire decouvrir la verite. Reconnaitre c'est un tout petit pas vers le pardon. Mais il ne faut jamais oublier.
Il y a dans l'Histoire des nations dont les individus portent dans leur sang le cri de leurs freres. Telle la nation armenienne. Le peintre, le professeur d'histoire ou le metteur en scene portent dans leur ame une tristesse qui est celle de leur pays. Trouver la verite, la dire a tout le monde c'est une tipare de retrouver la paix personnelle.
Le film m'a offert ce defi de chercher quelques donnees sur la destinée des Armeniens. Une demarche dans laquelle le film proposé m'a beaucoup aidé. On peut parler de la valeur documentaire et de la valeur de ficttion de ce que j'ai vu. La fiction ne fait que renforcer et soutenir la realité historique. J'ai bcp aimé les scenes ou d'un coté il y avait les acteurs qui interpretaient les roles ds le film de Saroyan et de l'autre coté il y avait ceux qui reqlisqient le film.
Cette formule "des poupees russes" est superbe. C'est comme un happening, en tournant le film, l'equipe poursuit un processus de katarsis.
L'autre film, Le Declin ...m'a appris que l'Histoire peut etre vecue d'une facon personnelle. Ararat me dit que l'Histoire peut offrir la formule d'echapper a soi-meme, au nom d'une identite, la plus forte, celle qui temoigne notre presence sur la Terre.
J'ai bcp de choses a dire, au grand desespoir des anglophones, mais je leur expliquerai comment peut-on voler une montagne, dans notre cas, Ararat... |
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monicavarga Junior 2

Data inscrierii: 10/Noi/2007 Mesaje: 29 Localitate: Satu Mare
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Trimis: 11/12/2007 01:16 Titlul subiectului: ararat |
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unfortunately, I wasn't able to atted the meeting, but I try catch up with the film. I am reading the script and looking at the picture. First, I have to thank our teacher, and I think you all agree, because he is going through all this trouble of posting all these for us. everyone can see that you really are passionate about this, or you wouldn't spend so much time as to post the scripts, and what is more, in two languages..make still shots and post them as well...so,
THANK YOU!
I'll re4ad the scripts and share my thoughts about the film. _________________ Monica - that's just me! |
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monicavarga Junior 2

Data inscrierii: 10/Noi/2007 Mesaje: 29 Localitate: Satu Mare
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Trimis: 11/12/2007 01:30 Titlul subiectului: |
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though I haven't seen thefilm but read the script , I find the scene with the party at Raffi's house very ingenious and filled with symbols. the friends couldn't penetrate the real meaning and symbol of the poem..they took each word ad literam, reaching the conclusion that the girlfriend must have been crazy fr asking such a thing. the friends reacted exactly like "the boyfriend" who, maybe blinded by love, or unable t o penetrate the symbol, goes out and kills his mother. here we have the incapacity of , maybe , the oradinary man to see the whole, who sees only the fragment, only the piece and can't make up the whole picture. whereas, the girlfriend might have meant that she wanted to win the love of the boy's mother.
the director even goes further, he plays with the meanings of the word heart. just to ubderline how a simple word can symbolize a lot....." You know what they say... There's always a woman at the heart of it." _________________ Monica - that's just me! |
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monicavarga Junior 2

Data inscrierii: 10/Noi/2007 Mesaje: 29 Localitate: Satu Mare
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Trimis: 11/12/2007 01:40 Titlul subiectului: |
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I have just read that Ararat is the highest volcano in Turkey and just by the Armenian border. But, the m,ost interesting and symbolic thing is that it is thought to be "the resting place of Noah's arch" ...so it might be thought as the craddle of new life after the genocid?> _________________ Monica - that's just me! |
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monicavarga Junior 2

Data inscrierii: 10/Noi/2007 Mesaje: 29 Localitate: Satu Mare
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Trimis: 11/12/2007 01:44 Titlul subiectului: |
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and to cointinue my comment about the scene commenting the poem...the individual sacrifice for the good of the people, or for the loved ones can be seen in the words: His mother's heart cried out...
"My poor boy!" "Did you hurt yourself?"
when evry bad thing is forgiven, when only the happiness counts, even if it means sacrifice _________________ Monica - that's just me! |
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monicavarga Junior 2

Data inscrierii: 10/Noi/2007 Mesaje: 29 Localitate: Satu Mare
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Trimis: 11/12/2007 01:47 Titlul subiectului: |
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the scene in the green house very well illustrates what the poem has just said: Raffi is caught in the middle. on one part there's the love for his mother, and the promise he had made to her, and on the other, the beloved woman who seeks and wants to be the first in Raffi's heart. _________________ Monica - that's just me! |
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monicavarga Junior 2

Data inscrierii: 10/Noi/2007 Mesaje: 29 Localitate: Satu Mare
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Trimis: 11/12/2007 01:57 Titlul subiectului: |
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i found it interesting that for Ani, Raffi and everyday life is but a "story", and we might say that these "stories" all together make the "history"? _________________ Monica - that's just me! |
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sebastianM Junior 2

Data inscrierii: 01/Noi/2007 Mesaje: 40
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Trimis: 11/12/2007 21:35 Titlul subiectului: Ararat |
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Je suis revenu...
En premier lieu parce que je respecte bcp le message de ce film.
Pour cette sequence je veux parler un peu de l'histoire de Raffi et d'Ani.
Si vous vous souvenez, j'ai dit la fois passé qu'ils portent dans leur ame le cri de leurs ancetres.
Ani est un personnage complexe et son histoire personnelle ne la presente, pas du tout comme une intellectuelle precieuse. Son drame personnel est etroitement lié au fatum de ses racines. La preuve la plus vivante est Raffi. En faisant partie du projet de Saroyan c'est la panacée qui va les délivrer de leurs obsessions et de leurs propres faiblesses humaines.
Ainsi, deviennent-ils les porte-parole d'une communauté toute entiere, celle des Arméniens du Canada. Leur véridicité contribue a mon sens mieux au message global du film que les scenes infernales du film de Saroyan.
Ce que je veux dire c'est que, dans cette action oscillatoire du film, Ani devient une sorte de carrefour de l'histoire, en elle se retrouvent les femmes brulées, la douleur de la chanson de la mere de Gorky, le desespoir de la femme violée qui serre bien dans sa main, la main de sa petite fille.
Raffi realise ce voyage aux origines, dans un sens initiatique. L'entretien avec le douanier lui offrira le statut de la sagesse de ses origines.
N'oublions pas, "les images peuvent changer le monde",il les apporte d'Armenie pour guérir.
Dans un sens figuré, en enregistrant son matériel, Raffi , je dirais....veut reconstruire les mains de sa mere....a propos de l'autre histoire, celle du peintre. Je dis ca aussi parce que sa bien-aimée vandalise la célebre peinture, au grand desespoir d'Ani...
Malheureusement nous ne realisons pas de veritables discussions ici, sur ce forum et il est tres difficile, etant danné les multiples plans de ce film, de garder la lucidité de nos arguments...c'est dommage.
Pourtant je reviendrai, pour une derniere fois avec la formule que j'ai utilisée pour les autres films aussi (une image, une replique, une scene
qui m'a bcp plu...)
Allez-y les Anglophones, ne nous laissez pas la tristesse du solilloque...on peut parler, vous savez...dans le ventre de la baleine qui est l'Histoire, il y a bcp de places.... |
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sabocami Junior

Data inscrierii: 16/Noi/2007 Mesaje: 15 Localitate: JIBOU
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Trimis: 19/12/2007 22:00 Titlul subiectului: ararat - le grand defi? |
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Pourqoui Ararat comme titre de ce film? je me suis demandĂ©e...c'est peut-etre un regard vers la religion, vers le monde chretien . D'apres la Genèse , dans la Bible , Ararat c'est l'endroit ou l'arche de Noe atteint la terre ample apres le Deluge . C'est l'endroit ou la vie recommence. Selon le film d'Atom Egoyan , Ararat c'est le lieu ou la vie a cesse de suivre son cours pour les Armeniens , les victimes du genocide de 1915. c'est un film hardi qui doit etre regarde très attentivement . C'est un peu labyrinthique, en ce qui concerne les sujets traitĂ©s. Premierement , je me suis dit:le film dans le film , mais puis j'y ai ajoute: film d'amour, film politique, film historique, film d'aventure, film de memoires . C'est l'histoire d'amour entre Celia et Raffi, c'est l'aventure de Raffi en Turquie ou il se decouvre soi-meme en se sentant le fantome de son père, c'est le processus d'un film sur le genocide des Armeniens;un processus qui a comme points de depart une photos et les souvenirs de ceux qui ont survecu a cette horreur de l'humanite. J'ai ete tres choquee par ce que la femme allemande a vu: la scene des jeunes filles dansant la danse de la mort. Ca a Ă©tĂ© vraiment affreux et sauvage. Il est incroyable comment les hommes peuvent faire du mal aux hommes. Une autre source pour le film est assuree par le livre d'Ani, prof a l'Universite et veuve d'un armenien . Elle est responsable , dans les yeux de Celia , de la mort de son second mari , le pere de Celia. C'est a partir de ce supçon que Celia ne cesse pas d'harceler Ani, toutes les fois qu'elle a l'occasion.
Ani essaie d'expliquer son livre en se basant sur une photo et puis une peinture de Gorky, representant l'artiste et sa mere . La photo est comme un leit-motif du film. Ce qui est interessant c'est que l'artiste lui-même ne parle pas, sa moduri de s'exprimer est plus complexe et tres cryptique . Gorky est "l'artiste muet" qui detient , peut-etre, le grand secret de ce qui s'est passĂ© le 24 avril 1915 , en Anatolie.
Je vais revenir avec d'autres commentaires. |
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sabocami Junior

Data inscrierii: 16/Noi/2007 Mesaje: 15 Localitate: JIBOU
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Trimis: 20/12/2007 14:23 Titlul subiectului: Ararat et Canada |
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Je tiens ma parole et me voila.
La douane a un role important dans le film, je pense. C'est le lieu par lequel le metteur en scène, Eduard Saroyan, et puis Raffi, vont passer de l'autre cote pour "accomplir", chacun d'entre eux, sa tache. Saroyan doit manger la grenade pour pouvoir passer et ainsi , il va emmener en lui , la chance. Raffi doit avoir confiance qu'il porte des films dans ses boites, et pas de drogues . David, le douanier , est le gardien d'un pays qui semble etre a lui . Il surveille la securitĂ© de son pays, il fait tres bien son mĂ©tier , mais il est aussi pere:il pense a son fils quand Raffi avoue son aventure vecue en Turquie .
Dans ce "nouveau pays" chacun peut avoir une vie decente et il ne faut rien craindre. |
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gRabITA Junior

Data inscrierii: 28/Oct/2007 Mesaje: 17 Localitate: Baia Mare
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Trimis: 12/01/2008 05:25 Titlul subiectului: Ararat |
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Au-delà de l’histoire du gĂ©nocide, ce film me paraĂźt être l’histoire des retrouvailles: une mère trouve le chemin vers le coeur de son fils, un père réétablit le lien avec son fils qui aime un acteur turc qui incarne un peuple coupable, Rafi retrouve ses racines et l’histoire de son existence (je me rapelle qu’au clipÄ où le douanier lui parle les images de sa camĂ©ra se dĂ©roulent sans cesse, comme s’il s’agissait du temps et de la vie même).
Ce qui est Ă©tonnant n’est pas la technique du film dans le film, mais le destin de Rafi qui est le porteur d’une histoire dont il n’est pas tout à fait conscient dès le dĂ©but. Saroyan se demande quelle est la cause de toute cette douleur....et explique: "la conscience d’ être tellement haïs”. Je ne cherche pas à trouver une rĂ©ponse de l’histoire concernant le gĂ©nocide, je ne fais que penser aux Allemands qui se faisaient coupables d’avoir tuĂ© les HĂ©breux. Comme le peuple allemand qui n’a pas ripostĂ© contre le massacre de Hitler, les Turcs sont coupables tous (à cette Ă©poque-là et de nos jours, à la fois). J’ai bien retenu la voix de Rafi qui affirme sur la pellicule qu’il montre au douanier: ”en visitant ces terres, je me suis rendu compte que nous avons perdu non seulement notre terre et tant des personnes, mais surtout la chance de se rappeler....ici, il n’y a rien qui dĂ©montre que s’est passĂ© quelque chose....” Mais cela n’a pas du tout d'importance....ce qui compte n’est pas la vie proprement dite (histoire d’une souffrance ou d’un succès), mais la manière de la concevoir et de
l’ assumer.
Ce qui m’a vraiment frappĂ© dans ce film est la scène où Saroyan se trouve pendant la première de son film et regarde la rĂ©action des autres, la rĂ©action de la salle comme s’il Ă©tait en dehors de l’histoire entière, des faits racontĂ©s. Seulement les larmes de l’acteur qui joue le docteur – si j’ai bien compris, il Ă©tait un survivant du massacre – m’ont fait penser à l’idĂ©e que la douleur n’est pas du tout fabriquĂ©e. Les larmes de cet homme s’unient aux larmes de la mère qui rĂ©ussit à réétablir la liaison sacre, suggĂ©rĂ©e par la peinture, la photo et l’icĂŽne religieuse d’Aghtamar. Ani retrouve son fils (la musique de cette scène me semble être une musique religieuse orthodoxe) non seulement du point de vue physique, mais surtout mĂ©taphorique. Le geste par lequel elle caresse les mains de la mère de la photo, à la fin de sa confĂ©rence, est la rĂ©plique du geste que Gorky avait fait, avant de «repeindre» de ses deux paumes (est-ce une signification sybolique?) les mains de sa mère...
Caresser les mains de sa mère devient synonyme de caresser la Terre-mère, en n’oubliant jamais ses propres racines. On peut changer de continent comme Gorky, mais on portera en soi-même non seulement l’histoire personnelle ou familiale, mais surtout la croix d’appartenir à une terre et à un peuple. |
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monicavarga Junior 2

Data inscrierii: 10/Noi/2007 Mesaje: 29 Localitate: Satu Mare
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Trimis: 30/01/2008 00:41 Titlul subiectului: |
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Finally, I got the movie...I have to tell you that it made a big impression on me..I cried a lot , it wasd very touching...
on one hand, it touched me because of my jewish part, and unvoluntarily, even before that subject comes up in the film, I compared the Armenian genocide with the Holocaust, the extermination of the Jews.
so, you can imagine how i was watching the movie.it`s a good thing I saw it alone, so I could let out my emotions, didn't have to hide my tears....
on the other hand, all this "subjectivity of history " makes me think about how naive people are.
first, i thought about sitting comfortablyback and just watching, but there were so many ideas that came to my mind during the film that i was holdng my pen and writing down everything i noticed.
i`ll try to shre mt thoughts _________________ Monica - that's just me! |
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monicavarga Junior 2

Data inscrierii: 10/Noi/2007 Mesaje: 29 Localitate: Satu Mare
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Trimis: 30/01/2008 00:45 Titlul subiectului: |
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Here are a few selections:
| Citat: | | I think with this film, there's an expectation that the film is going to finally tell the truth of what happened. And actually, that's not what it's about. |
So, then, I ask you, what is this about?
I think that the film is trying to express that history is a subject to interpretations and no matter on which side you are, the main thing is that we shouldn't allow things to get into oblivion. _________________ Monica - that's just me! |
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sebastianM Junior 2

Data inscrierii: 01/Noi/2007 Mesaje: 40
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Trimis: 30/01/2008 17:36 Titlul subiectului: hair et pardonner |
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La victoire de la haine se passe quand on regarde dans les yeux des ennemis et on se voit soi-meme.
Arrarat n'est pas concu pour "toucher des coeurs", au contraire , a mon avis c'est pour les glacer dans une tentative desesperee de ne pas repeter les horreurs qui se deroulent periodiquement dans l'histoire.
De la pitie? Pas du tout, moi qui j'ai acces a un tel film, dois me sentir coupable. La vie sans dignite est comme un Arrarat sans maitres.
Je paraphrase un passage de la Bible qui nous apprend une belle lecon de solidarite-si le grain qui tombe par terre ne meurt pas, alors il reste seul. Mais s'il meurt, il assure la moisson a venir-
Egoyan tire ses racines des grains qui sont morts. Et son devoir est d'annoncer au monde "civilise" qu'il n'est donc pas seul.
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alionka Junior

Data inscrierii: 07/Noi/2007 Mesaje: 3
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Trimis: 31/01/2008 15:18 Titlul subiectului: |
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Thank you for this movie!
My grandparents was deported and when I was watching "Ararat" I remembered what they told me about their deportation. It was like in "Ararat", without food, water and human condition. Grandmother said me that they should be strong and optimists in order to help their children (five). They were transported by train for animals and grandfather told that all men should looked for wood when the train stopped in order to make beds. It was awful.
I want to say about the relation between Gorky and his family (mother). I think that for Gorky mother was an important person in his life. We can deduce from Gorky's picture. At the beginning I thought that he did not finish his masterpiece, but at the end of the movie I understood. Actually, Gorky finished it, but he decided to remove (I'm not sure if it is a right word) his mother's hands. Her hands is too sacred for him, too personal and I think that he wanted to keep this only for him.
I am touched by this story. I think, actually, we have here four stories: Raffi's, Gorky's, officer's and Edward Saroyan's film. And if a viewer is not attentive he can lose the movie's thread which is unique, original (this is my opinion). |
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monicavarga Junior 2

Data inscrierii: 10/Noi/2007 Mesaje: 29 Localitate: Satu Mare
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Trimis: 31/01/2008 22:22 Titlul subiectului: |
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just as alona said, thank you for the movie!
i was touched, too...and still recovering... _________________ Monica - that's just me! |
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marieta Junior

Data inscrierii: 30/Ian/2008 Mesaje: 2
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Trimis: 01/02/2008 10:22 Titlul subiectului: ararat |
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In Ararat, the viewer is supposed to get along with a non linear plot structure which allows Egoyan to deal with a multitude of issues treated on many levels and illuminated from different angles. That’s why this movie was bitterly attacked, not only by the Muslim community, but also by the Armenians themselves.
Produced in our postmodern society, devoid of ideology, the most important achievement of this movie is the fact that Egoyan skillfully avoided to transform Ararat into a mere propaganda for the Armenian cause.
I’ll let aside the other parallel themes of this film (the power of art, the artist condition, drugs, family destruction etc) and I am going to focus on the relativity of human history.
Ali’s reply is summing up the average opinion of the present western consumerist society: ”Let’s just drop the fucking history and get on with it”. That’s why the Armenian Holocaust with all its atrocities becomes a film in a film, a sort of parenthesis, even if the script writer keeps assuring us that his movie is well documented, mentioning several times Clearance Ussher’s journal.
On the other hand, in the spirit of Huntington’s “Clash of Cultures”, the Armenian genocide is justified by Jedvet Bey not by economic or political causes; the presumed Armenians cultural, religious superiority over the Turks is the origin of the massacre. Thus, Agoyan’s subtle technique doesn’t focus on the historical accuracy of facts, or on the moral culpability of the Turks in the Armenians genocide, but it skillfully maintains a complete ambiguity.
Nevertheless, Ararat has scenes of extreme powerful emotions: the dance of the singing Armenian naked girls who are going to die in the fire set by the Turkish soldiers will be hardly forgotten by any cinema fan. |
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monicavarga Junior 2

Data inscrierii: 10/Noi/2007 Mesaje: 29 Localitate: Satu Mare
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Trimis: 08/02/2008 00:14 Titlul subiectului: |
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marieta, I have to say that, although you name the scene of naked dancing girls as one of the most powerful scenes in Ararat, I have another opinion.
for me, the scene when the custom's officer asks Rafi for the last time what was in the boxes(I remember the name of the recipients with unex[posed film) even if he knew very well that they hid drugs, the look in his eyes, the wish that Rafi said "unexposed film" is tearing./......
I mean, I loved that scene, Egoyan and also the actor ...knew how to suggest that the character, the customs officer wants to believe that Rafi tells the truth.
this is when we realize that if we really believe that something that we did is not wrong, it cannot be wrong. if we trully believe it....or if we trully deny the bad things _________________ Monica - that's just me! |
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anca Junior

Data inscrierii: 30/Noi/2008 Mesaje: 15
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Trimis: 17/01/2009 17:24 Titlul subiectului: ararat |
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Hi, to everyone!
I searched the mini site about Ararat, that Grand Shaman posted on the forum. I advice you to do the same. It's really great and useful, too. |
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Nu puteti crea un subiect nou in acest forum Nu puteti raspunde in subiectele acestui forum Nu puteti modifica mesajele proprii din acest forum Nu puteti sterge mesajele proprii din acest forum Nu puteti vota in chestionarele din acest forum
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