marohde-74310 I am generally a fan of Akin's movies and this one is not an exception. It was a very good film. The scenery is amazing, the acting is stellar, especially the main actor's mute yet very expressive performance. The story line is multi-faceted and very balanced: It does not assign guilt in just one direction. There are plenty of people who help on all sides (Armenians, Turks, Arabs, Americans), there are lots of people with personal weaknesses fighting for themselves first, including the hero, and there are barbarians everywhere also. And every page that turns gives us a new perspective on what has happened to Armenians back then.This movie is not only important to confront Turkish society with its history, it is also very timely with the global refugee crisis. It humanizes and personalizes the experience of loss and death that those who survive war and genocide go through, and the suffering of those who have to flee home in general.

bright_eagle_93 As if the director is trying to purposefully demoralize the Armenians.Armenian women preferred to kill themselves and threw themselves from cliffs to protect their dignity. The exact opposite of what the movie shows. In the movie, one girl at the camp in Ras-Al-Ain says I'll do anything take me out of here.Armenian prayer sounds like "balbalbalbal"? Seriously? and the turks would've let the Armenian priest maintain his bible and pray on route?!Nazareth and Krikor watch an Armenian woman wash herself in Aleppo? Seriously; men who had just lost their wives and daughters, and witnessed them getting raped, would go to a whore-house?!Armenian music and songs are so poor that there is only one song and it's Janoi, Janoi, Janoi, Jan?Armenians went to great lengths in rejoining families and rescuing abducted girls and orphans... there are real stories about that. Why Cuba and Minneapolis, what's the hidden agenda behind those?

DesiAnge A true masterpiece!Liked it a lot!Faith Akin - unique as always.I would say that "The cut" is one of his best films.Very hard to watch it on some points - kind of painful - the armenian genocide is historical fact.Very good scenario and actors!Definitely one of the best movies, which i have watched this year.Highly recommend "The Cut" to everyone who wants to understand what the real cinema is!Gave 9 to the movie and i think this movie absolutely deserved it.

Geoffrey Haig This film tackles a topic of huge dramatic potential, and it is certainly a bold move for a director with Turkish roots to take this task on, given the pathological aversion of the Turkish authorities to any reference to the Armenian genocide. Unfortunately, in my view the film fails almost entirely as a film, both technically and in terms of character development/dialog. Furthermore, it avoids really facing the issue of the genocide itself, the historical background and the sheer scale of the killings. The genocide involved hundreds of thousands of people; the film contains scenes in the desert involving a tiny group of Armenian men haplessly shifting a few rocks backwards and forwards, guarded by a few Ottoman troops - the whole scene works more like a cheaply-produced pantomime set; to portray the scale of the actual events you really need epic cinematography, which apparently the budget just wasn't up to. Then there is the totally one-dimensional plot, a series of fairly arbitrary stages on a journey, with no obvious motivations or connections for choice of scenes (why Cuba, Minneapolis ...?), no development of real relationships between any of the characters, and a final denouement that can only be termed anti-climactic. We also find numerous clichés - the barbaric Kurds (rapists), the wily Bedouin (keeping helpless Christian women captive), the saintly soap-maker - who, despite being the owner of a sizable factory, still wanders around the desert alone with his donkey and his cart, the happy Armenian tradesman and his family torn apart by the genocide etc etc. The main blessing of the film for me was that the lead character loses his voice early on in the film (another totally implausible twist of the plot), which spares us yet more of the generally flat dialogs.