Review of The Promise (2017) by Alice M — 03 May 2017
Wonderful, old-fashioned story-telling with a fictional love triangle providing the entertainment but never detracting from the horror of the pograms, work camps and genocide. Again, as in hotel Rwanda, the horror and brutality is clearly depicted without the fashionable need for copious gore.
The references in the film to Aleppo could not fail to cause the viewer also to draw parallels with the plight of innocent Syrians. As all good historical dramas do, the film caused me to seek more information about this genocide and I was horrified to discover that some German attachees to the Turkish army at this time later became key figures in the Nazi army and used their experience of the ethnic cleansing as a precedent for the Holocaust.
The moral of this film is that evil must be exposed and I congratulate the film makers for having done so and hope that, as a PG film, it may be used as an educational tool in schools.
This review of The Promise (2017) was written by Alice M on 03 May 2017.
The Promise has generally received positive reviews.
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