Beautiful line:
It’s a helluva thing when a war on terror supposedly requires the U.S.
Congress to pretend that genocide didn’t occur.
This brings to mind the scene in Atom Egoyan's very fine film Ararat, which is about (among other things) the filming of a movie about the Armenian genocide. In it, an actor, who plays the part of a Turkish soldier, asks the director if he was chosen for the part because he was Turkish. The actor goes on to defend the Turks and argue against that the Armenian genocide never occurred. It is a striking moment, because, even in the midst of remembering, it shows that there are those who still deny that it ever happened, including the perpetrators. The fact that the actor, who is, quite clearly, the "bad guy," is taken in by his character and begins to defend his evil-ness, is poignant.
Congress to pretend that genocide didn’t occur.
This brings to mind the scene in Atom Egoyan's very fine film Ararat, which is about (among other things) the filming of a movie about the Armenian genocide. In it, an actor, who plays the part of a Turkish soldier, asks the director if he was chosen for the part because he was Turkish. The actor goes on to defend the Turks and argue against that the Armenian genocide never occurred. It is a striking moment, because, even in the midst of remembering, it shows that there are those who still deny that it ever happened, including the perpetrators. The fact that the actor, who is, quite clearly, the "bad guy," is taken in by his character and begins to defend his evil-ness, is poignant.
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