Hotel Rwanda.... this movie was amazing

[frankgomez75]

I finally got a chance to watch Hotel Rwanda over the weekend. If you haven't yet seen it, do yourself a favor and watch it.

How people can be so cruel sickens me about our species. Genocide is the most disheartening thing we as a species could do to ourselves and the fact that no one intervenes is evening more saddening.

Not many movies out there get me worked up.... but wow, this movie struck a chord in me. I was so angry :| that I actually teared up at the atrocities committed by my fellow man. 🙁
I thought we learned after WWII and Hitler, and that we would never allow such a thing to happen again..... I was only 16 when this happened so I knew little of the subject. But after learning some more about it... 🙁

I can only hope that this never happens again, but something tells me come back to the real world.

 

[Lola]

It was an amazing movie.
The acting was sentsational and the whole thing was very touching.

 

[fuzzybabybunny]

Tears of the Sun was really good too. It's along the same subject matter as genocide in Africa.

 

[frankgomez75]

Originally posted by: fuzzybabybunny
Tears of the Sun was really good too. It's along the same subject matter as genocide in Africa.

Yeah, I liked that movie too. Though it only skims the surface. The depths to which Hotel Rwanda goes about genocide was much more in your face.

A quote from the movie : "We must shame them into helping us.."

If I was in power during the time this stuff happened I would have been so ashamed of myself for not being a human being and helping out that I couldn't face myself in the mirror. Bill Clinton is one of my favorite presidents, but damn this leaves such a black mark on him. I think I even read somewhere that he stated this was the one thing he regretted most about himself and his admin. while in power... that he didn't do enough to stop it or intervene.

 

[torpid]

I was good, I guess. By the time I saw it, it had been so hyped that I was expecting something great. It's not as good as schindler's list or anything, nor do I think it was one of the best films of that year. But worth seeing, for sure.

 

[ahurtt]

I saw it not long ago myself after hearing about it for a long time. Sadly it is just a small microcosm of the kind of thing that goes on in places all over the world. In fact it reminded me an awful lot of the kind of stuff we see and hear on the radio and tv news that is going on in Iraq right now between the Suni and Shiite.