Film Review 1

The Armenian Genocide film that we watched was very interesting and informative. Prior to watching this movie, I did not know too much about the genocide that occurred in the Ottoman Empire in 1915. The documentary did an excellent job of informing its audience about the facts, background and history of Armenian life prior to the genocide as well as life and experiences during the actual forced marches. However, I found some parts of the movie to be a bit less captivating than other parts. Perhaps if the film had had more fluxuation between how the history and stories were told, I would have found it more understandable. I felt a lot of information was thrown in, in a short amount of time and therefore had a bit of a difficulty following along.

However, I particularly enjoyed hearing the first hand experiences of survivors of the genocide. Hearing first hand accounts of people definitely helped add a very emotional level to the movie that would otherwise have made it just a factual documentary. The individual recounts and stories were very interesting, informative and captivating.

I also thought that the movie did an excellent job of examining the human rights aspect of the Armenian Genocide and how people knew that there were forced marches going on throughout the Ottoman Empire, and yet people just stood by and let it happen like there was nothing they could do about it. It did an excellent job of focusing on the peoples human rights and how they were violated.