Review of The Promise (2017) by Alice Y — 22 Apr 2017
The Promise is a hard movie to watch. It makes you feel badly at the repeated tragedy experienced through the characters, still it is well directed, acted and told. The silences are as profound as the words.
It is a must see if for nothing else, the history no serious observer or student of it even today denies. With time, the citizens of Turkey acknowledge more and more what happened and have been confused by their own government which denies what happened despite the informal, consistent, truth.
One day, the genocide will be acknowledged for what it was: the last attempted extermination of an ethnic and religious (Christian) group, before the term "genocide" was invented. It was not the first genocide in the history of man, just the first of the 20th century and the last without this term to go with it.
That doesn't mean it didn't happen.
This review of The Promise (2017) was written by Alice Y on 22 Apr 2017.
The Promise has generally received positive reviews.
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