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There is a lot of characters in this film, but every character represent different point of view of the Armenian genocide.
Raffi
Raffi who is the main character in the movie represent the normal Armenian kid that raised by the story of his mother that his father is Armenian freedom fighter.
Raffi doesn't understand why his father killed himself. He doesn't understand why his father willing to kill himself for something that happened 100 years ago.
We can see it in the scene when "Your father died for something he believed in,” and Raffi answered, “I wish I knew what that was.”
This death influence Raffi who needs to go back to Ararat, for understand what happened in 1915 during the genocide.
Raffi is a production assistant on the set of the movie, happens to be having an affair with his stepsister.
Raffi, he’s just this kid who’s made a foolish choice, and caught up in this extraordinary confabulation of the film he worked on and his own diary. He gets carried away with telling the story.. So there’s an important scene with Gorky’s mother and the child, telling him that he’ll never forget what’s happened here, what will happen here. It’s a crucial link between mother and son, and it’s been broken between Ani and Raffi. When she says, “Your father died for something he believed in,” Raffi can only say, “I wish I knew what that was.” So, when he’s on the movie set, there’s something very fake about what he sees being made [the recreation of the massacre], and yet, in those stereotypes, there is something primal for him. While mothers and sons embody this transmission of culture, the film is about the transmission of trauma, as it’s transmitted from one generation to another.
The loss of any way to remember it; there is nothing here to prove that anything ever happened..” Raffi
That why its so important to him to go and search.
Ani
Ani takes her research “on the road,” on her book tour, making it public.
And those are the moments, the
Raffi
Raffi who is the main character in the movie represent the normal Armenian kid that raised by the story of his mother that his father is Armenian freedom fighter.
Raffi doesn't understand why his father killed himself. He doesn't understand why his father willing to kill himself for something that happened 100 years ago.
We can see it in the scene when "Your father died for something he believed in,” and Raffi answered, “I wish I knew what that was.”
This death influence Raffi who needs to go back to Ararat, for understand what happened in 1915 during the genocide.
Raffi is a production assistant on the set of the movie, happens to be having an affair with his stepsister.
Raffi, he’s just this kid who’s made a foolish choice, and caught up in this extraordinary confabulation of the film he worked on and his own diary. He gets carried away with telling the story.. So there’s an important scene with Gorky’s mother and the child, telling him that he’ll never forget what’s happened here, what will happen here. It’s a crucial link between mother and son, and it’s been broken between Ani and Raffi. When she says, “Your father died for something he believed in,” Raffi can only say, “I wish I knew what that was.” So, when he’s on the movie set, there’s something very fake about what he sees being made [the recreation of the massacre], and yet, in those stereotypes, there is something primal for him. While mothers and sons embody this transmission of culture, the film is about the transmission of trauma, as it’s transmitted from one generation to another.
The loss of any way to remember it; there is nothing here to prove that anything ever happened..” Raffi
That why its so important to him to go and search.
Ani
Ani takes her research “on the road,” on her book tour, making it public.
And those are the moments, the