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Movie Roundup: AmerikatsiIt's been a good few weeks of moviegoing for me and The Boy. In the throwbacks, we have:
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![]() Apart from the kid flicks, we only saw one new movie, and it's a doozy: Amerikatsi. (We saw it on the anniversary of the release of The Shawshank Redemption appropriately enough, but yesterday was the official release date in the USA so you can check it out in one of the...thirty or so theaters it's playing nationwide?!) ![]() After the War, the Soviet Union "freed" Armenia and re-established it as a state, extending a welcoming hand to all Armenians who wished to return to their homeland. About 300 U.S. citizens fell for this, and our story is about one of them. Charlie, who escaped the 1915 genocide when his grandmother hid him in a crate, finds himself without much attachment in America and decides to "come home" to the new glorious republic promised by the—yeah, he's utterly clueless. On his first day he saves a child from being crushed by a mob trying to get bread. The boy's mother, Sona, is so grateful she demands her husband Dimitry (a Soviet apparatchik) get him a job. Dimitry sees this American dupe, crossing himself and wearing a fancy polka-dotted tie and decides he's an American spy, and throws him in jail instead. Worried his wife will find out, he decides to send Charlie to Siberia, but an earthquake requires repairmen and so all the Siberian exports are spared and get to stay in Armenia. There is a darkly comic aspect to the whole "we're sending you to jail because of your tie", which Charlie misunderstands and says, "I'll give everyone in Armenia a tie if you'll let me out," which is interpreted as a propaganda threat. So we've got our setup, we've got our act one crisis, and act two is Charlie realizing that his cell (a barely converted storeroom, actually) has a high window that looks directly into the apartment of one of the prison guards, Tigran. Tigran's an Armenian (and the brother of Sona) who was nearly sent to prison himself—for painting churches—and Charlie begins to learn about Armenian culture by watching him through his window. When Tigran's wife leaves him and Tigran can't find the key to their storage closet, Charlie risks a severe beating by getting a message to him. And on it goes like this, with the man in the literal prison connecting with the man in the social prison, and connected only through a culture one barely understands (but learns as he goes). Damn fine storytelling, with a positive message, an earned two hour runtime which has a kind of epic feel as the years pass away and we see so much of life going by. Easily the best Armenian movie I've ever seen (in Armenian, Russian and English) and a candidate for best movie of the year. | Recent Comments
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