hotel rwanda

REVIEW SUMMARY
This wrenching political thriller, based on fact, performs the valuable service of lending a human face to an upheaval so savage it seemed beyond the realm of imagination when news of it filtered into the West. The movie certainly isn't the first screen depiction of a nation consumed in ethnic strife. But its vision of the slaughter of 800,000 Tutsis by the ruling Hutu tribe in Rwanda during a hundred-day bloodbath in 1994, offers a devastating picture of media-driven mass murder left unchecked. The story is based on the real-life experiences of Paul Rusesabagina (Don Cheadle), the soft-spoken Hutu manager of the Hotel Des Mille Collines, in Kigali, who with his Tutsi wife, Tatiana (Sophie Okonedo), and children, narrowly escapes death several times. Mr. Rusesabagina was directly responsible for saving the lives of more than 1,200 Tutsis and Hutu moderates by sheltering them in the hotel and bribing the Hutu military to spare them. The movie, which is squeamish about showing the full extent of savagery, hammers every button on the emotional console. — Stephen Holden, The New York Times

yup. this is what hotel rwanda was about. it is really a good movie. lol. i cried!! well, cried might be too strong a word. teared la. tears just left me when i saw the hundreds of blacks who came with the european priest, hands high and holding the pictures of God; children, women and the old arrived in the heavy rain, holding each other tight. the Europeans were leaving and the priest had thought they could bring all these with them. actually i dunnoe why i teared. it seems quite stupid now.. haha

but seriously i left the movie with anti-west feelings. thought about how the west and gone to create such unhappiness and eventually ignore the problem, esp a probelm as serious as this. made me even more cynical about the war Afghanistan and Iraq cuz there never really is the full support that the people need. given the riches of the America, surely there is more than they can contribute than guard the oil.

didn't get to see what happened towards the end cuz the lesson ended before we could finish the movie. the director might have made it less grahpic so that more people could watch it or something. but i definitely believe the reality to be worse. none the less, the acting was excellent. good movie. free of charge too. lol. =)

been doing alot of homework lately. gotten into the momentum but still haven't the stamina i guess. not enough sleep and i will go to school feeling dizzy. sad case. whatever happened to the 3 hours sleep i managed last year... oh well. going to do econs and math now. sigh~ i think i can't complete my history essay today. how how how..