The Promise Movie Download

3 / 10

important history done badly
It’s the Ottoman Empire on the eve of WWI. Mikael Boghosian (Oscar Isaac) is an Armenian who lives in a mixed town. His family doesn’t have the money to send him to study medicine in Constantinople. He makes a promise to Maral for the dowry from her father. He attends medical school with support from a wealthy uncle. He befriends Ana Khesarian (Charlotte Le Bon) and her American reporter friend Chris Myers (Christian Bale). As the war begins, his well-connected Muslim school friend Emre saves him from conscription but anti-Armenian fever sweeps over the military.

This is controversial history under dispute. Veracity of true history is difficult at the best of times. This is beyond my abilities but the movie also runs into the same problem as Pearl Harbor. It’s harrowing history with a romantic triangle jammed into it. This one is even a romantic quadrangle. It grinds down the start with the melodrama. His marriage is wholly unnecessary and detracts from the larger epic. There is serious history being traversed but a lot of it is convenient. This important story needs more skill, not less in story telling. The level of difficulty is high and this is nowhere close.Read More