Aram

Terrorist story and someone is proud of it. No clear cut plotline

justice.revenge.an old and painful trauma. Turkish and Armenian confrontation in France. importance of roots, family and duty. result - a gray movie about victims, politics and form of survive. only problem - ambiguity of story. and ambition to explore all in Manichaian style.circle with broken organization, it is one of pledge for basic values.in harsh way, precise but to difficult to be real universal. Aram is hero, killer,guilty brother and prodigal son, enemy of state and piece of political machine but it is not a deep picture. only drawing of a world in few lines. to tell much is not just tell exactly. and this is the error of movie. some suggestions. and a lots of doors.

Plenty of violence. The movie is about Terror not about corny one line jokes or how menacing you can look. This is a movie well done, that will only get better in the sequel. It is as if there is more to be told about this intriguing and unknown gangsters. No night clubs where everyone knows your name. Family people with an agenda...so refreshing... excellent. This movie can be compared to Bourne Identity and Ronin where those movies were full of meaningless banter about who is to who and what is to what. None of that here. Very simple gangster life. Except the emotion is portrayed in the family of the lead actor. I can see a sequel to this movie on the level of GodFather II. With the budget and the right script these are the movies that are sleepers that can become big big hits!

Aram is a plot driven movie that does not completely focus on the Armenian issues regarding their relations with Turkey. It is actually a story of an Armenian family in France in which the two children, Aram and his brother, are part of a rebel group that try to kill some Turkish diplomats. However, the movie does not go into the Armenian-Turkish history but it focuses on the struggles of this Armenian family when the plans to kill the Turkish diplomat are met with violent opposition. It is a powerful movie even if you are not Armenian, in the sense that it deals with family issues in the face of a struggle.

When i was watching this movie, i was feeling the same, as i was watching a spy film. Nevertheless, some of the clues are not comprehensible at first sight, but it's not annoying. It's very notable, that Kechichian don't actually focus on Armenian-Turkey politics issues, however, it is insufficient action thriller. Kechichian managed to make unglamourized spy film, but it can be considered only as an alternative movie. I've found lots of similarities with such masterpieces of John Frankenheimer 'Ronin' and Doug Liman 'The Bourne Identity'. It's pity that i haven't found in "ARAM" auto chases, a real street skirmishes and a pair of famous actors as Robert De Niro and Al Pacino. On the contrary, where could we find such emotionless and equanimity of Simon Abkarian's face when he was killing turks...