Review of The Promise (2016) by Hachik C — 23 Apr 2017
After "Ararat", "The Promise" is the other only major production of the movie industry of North America about the Armenian Genocide. It is a very important movie on the market of a country with a critical influence in the world.
The United States has not yet properly acknowledged the first genocide of the 20th Century to avoid antagonizing the host of one of its military bases - Turkey. The government of the Ottoman Turkish Empire organized the extermination of more than 1.
5 million Armenians starting in April 1915. In my view the movie was made to introduce the facts of the Armenian Genocide and has mainly educational value. It was made with the objective to present and inform about the biggest tragedy in the history of the modern Armenian people, not to strike its audiences with the horrors of mass killing and the unspeakable methods of violence more than 100 years ago.
It is a movie production that most likely will not be nominated for Oscars, but is one of the most important films I, the son of the Armenian genocide survivors, have seen in my life.
This review of The Promise (2016) was written by Hachik C on 23 Apr 2017.
The Promise has generally received positive reviews.
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