I just watched this today, and I'm still in shock. It was a very intense experience.
Have any of you seen this movie, and what did you think?
Hotel Rwanda
I just watched this today, and I'm still in shock. It was a very intense experience.
Have any of you seen this movie, and what did you think?
Leave some shards under the belly
Lay some grease inside my hand
It's a sentimental jury
And the makings of a good plan
I thought it was pretty boring.
Originally Posted by Bunny
Anyway, I thought it was an overwhelming experience. An emotional movie that didn't (need to) rely overmuch on Hollywood cheesiness to make you feel for the characters. That people can see it and dismiss it with a "so what--just another genocide movie" because it's about Africans really expresses one of the things the movie pointed out...if you saw it first hand, you couldn't deny the horror of it all, but otherwise Westerners generally couldn't care less about the suffering of people of another race in "a world apart."
It's not race that makes me not care, it's more not knowing about it, because the media never focuses on it.
everything is wrapped in gray
i'm focusing on your image
can you hear me in the void?
It was an amazing movie about a really horrific situation.
Str8 Pimpin'
Yeah. I cried when I watched it, which is rare for me. Usually I get watery eyed, but not cry.
If you want to read more about the genocide, you should try Romeo Dalaire's Shaking Hands with the Devil (I have yet to finish, but it is awesome and very moving). Dalaire (sp???) Was a Canadian UN officer sent to Rwanda during this time (something to that effect).
I did almost cry, it's powerful stuff.
Between this powerful film and HBO's equally wrenching and much more graphic "Sometimes In April" perhaps the world will finally wake up to the evils that went on and ARE STILL happening in Africa as we speak.
Take care all.
While it was an amazing and moving film, it disappoints me that it took a film released 11 years later to make America care about the situation. Travesties like that still go on in Africa and the media still turns a blind eye to cover more sensationalist stories such as the Jon Benet Ramsey case. Plus, when they do show a little coverage, Americans don't care because there are no Americans in danger.
I'll be disappointed again when people talk about how moving the Darfur movie is when it's released around 2017.
What I've been listening to:
smurf, this movie was an intense experience. It pulled on one's emotional attachments and thoughts like most movies cannot. And many kudos to the actors - the emotional display was perfect.
I loved it. One of my favourites.
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same
I thought it was a great movie, Don Cheadle was really good in it
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