Ararat (2024) Season 1 – Full Series Download
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film within a film within a film that plays out through a myriad of
interconnected stories sewn into a giant multi-colored tapestry. The so
called "Armenian holocaust" is the fabric from which director Egoyan
spins his narrative, and this event so heavily laden with emotional
baggage, becomes almost impossible to approach with intellectual
objectivity. The lines between fact and fiction are constantly blurred
as in a scene where the protagonist walks onto a movie set about the
"holocaust" and one of the characters scolds her, not as an actor, but
as a very real character from that time. At times this constant
commingling loses focus, but Egoyan's heartfelt attempt to bring back
the dead through his art imitating art approach, succeeds surprisingly
well. Although the "holocaust" is shown graphically, Egoyan is aware
that we connect most deeply with that to which we can all relate, and
this is shown right from the start as an artist attempts to transfer his
childhood memories of murdered loved ones to a painter's canvas; the
details of a mothers dress . . . the skin of a mothers hand . . . her
fingers knitting a quilt. The vivid colors and simple reality of that
hand are so compelling they can reach out across decades of despair to
caress the forehead, reduce fever, and impart a sense of belonging - a
reason for being. From this inauspicious beginning, Egoyan is able to
arrive at a much greater truth: the inherent need for human beings to
believe in something - whether or not that belief is grounded in reality
or can be proved scientifically. Finally, ARATAT concludes with a
simple truth that is just as powerful: the immeasurable but often
neglected joy at being able to look upon our loved ones and to hold them
in an embrace of life.
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