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Ararat is a brilliant and complex story about a young man being stopped in customs with a suspect bundle of tin containers containing undeveloped films. The customs officer (Christopher Plummer) begins a long and tedious interrogation in regards to the tin containers, which has it roots in a 1915-1918 genocide of Turkish Armenians. The story that the young man reveals is tied to him, his fathers death 15 years ago, stepfather's death, a film director, a film production, his step sister, his mother, a gay couple, a famous painter, and how the Armenian holocaust affects them in today's society. The cross-examination also brings a symbolic meaning to whether the 1915-1918 genocide of Turkish Armenians, which is still denied to this day by the Turkish government, ever took place. Egoyan brings another cerebral story to the audience as he displays his vast knowledge of human behavior and the denial people deal with under unpleasant circumstances. In addition, the script is a clever creation as it exposes human nature in natural dialogues from a wide variety of multifaceted characters who bring different lights to the issue at hand. |
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