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Not too many people know or care about one of the great genocides.

I am referring to the Armenian genocide in Turkey in the Twenties.

The writer director Fatih Akin chronicles this time with Tahar Rahim as the star.

The Cut (2014)

The atrocity is personified in the form of a cut larynx. He cannot ever talk.

This makes for some pretty dramatic stuff and while the film veers toward soap opera it never falls over the edge.

Rahim, a great favorite of mine, is excellent. He rises to the occasion. He has to work as in silent films. This role will serve as a good bridge to his later career. His matinee idol looks notwithstanding.

But he has always had very serious roles. And he is well up to the tasks set for him.

The film is epic. The sweep of rural Turkey and then the United States where, once again, the immigrant experience shows our shining purpose. This time as an illegal entering at Florida with a smuggler. An aside, perhaps, about our worries over this kind of thing. This guy will be a credit to society. And he will be reunited with his lost family. Spoiler which helps as you trudge with him through all the Job-like difficulties.

I bought the disc so this will be a 5 out of Netflix5. I am sure that I will see it again. Well, if I live that long. Let's say I hope to and I will have it when I want it.

Labels: films