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Ararat (2002)
An Extras point of view
I am an Armenian. My brothers, my daughter, and myself were all extras in this amazing film. When we were on set, it was like a giant Armenian community. Atom Egoyan would talk with everyone and state his gratefulness that we would be in his film. He is an amazing and gentle man.
It is hard to believe that man would gleefully kill a child, a pregnant women, or set ladies on fire. This truly shows how barbaric the human race is. When the disturbing scenes are shown the camera does not linger. I'm sorry to tell the ignorant among you, Yes the Genocide happened. Hitler said "who remembers the slaughter of the Armenians", no one will care if we kill the Jews.
The movie itself draws a comparison with societies intolerance of homosexuals. If we allow the killing of Armenians, then we allow the Killing of the Jews, if we allow killing of one race then we can make a reason to eventually kill the homosexuals or anyone who the majority think is a threat to their way of life.
The people on this list who don't believe the Armenian Genocide happened probably can't point out where Armenia is on a map, so how would they know. It did happen, my grandparents family didn't chose to live in Iran, they were forced there. You either leave or die, you either swim across the river or die, if you can't swim then die on land or drowned.
Society must learn from the past, because genocide goes on today. In Columbia women & children die every day because of the toxic spraying of the coca fields. All over the world women are smuggled across borders for prostitution. Yet stopping these problems are not priorities. Society is more concerned with a person getting high or having a same sex partner. These issues are none of societies business. The abuse of the human race should be our priority or else Hitlers dream will be realized. Remember the 5th commandment "Thou Shalt Not Kill" Not for any reason, not even for oil.
Sunset Strip (2000)
Great sTrip
I really enjoyed this movie. It starts of with a musician waking up and taking a piece of paper off some tin foil and then trips into the opening credits. It offers a photographers perspective of the music scene as he works along side his costume designer. They try to keep the musicians egos at bay, and get there work done no matter the consequences. There is also a very trippy wardrobe scene that almost demands applause once completed.