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About a dozen kids from my social studies class (and the teacher) went to see Hotel Rwanda this afternoon, and I was wondering if anyone else has seen it yet.
Its an amazing film. Not too gory, but very historically accurate and somehow manages to give the background information without hitting you over the head with it.
Please, if you haven't already, see this movie. (Just don't do it when you're already depressed about the lack of compassion in the human race.)
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Yes, I managed to see it, despite the fact that it wasn't playing in Edmonton. It was excellent.
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I saw it, I dragged a couple of my friends to see it with me last weekend. I was very happy with how it was portrayed. It shows just enough violence to be effective while also capturing human dignity and the lack thereof.
I would also highly recommend it as a must see film for selected people.
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I am planning to see it; it looks extreemly good.
I heard that the Canadian General in the movie was ficticous (sp?)- while he's based on the real-word Lt. Gen Romeo Dallaire, they give him another name and fictionalize him in other ways... is this true?
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I saw it this Saturday and it was amazing. Despite the fact that my two guy friends were talking the entire movie.
However, I'm still confused about the two groups. I could never tell which one was which. Was the president a Hutu or was he Tutsi?
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Pres. Hybermania (sp?) was Hutu. Hutu extremists, spec. the Interwhame, carried out most of massacres. There were also Hutu moderates, however, who wanted the Arusha peace process to work.
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This is out on video now. My husband and I just finished watching it. He asked me how I could stand to watch it. Then it dawned on him that I already knew everything that was going to happen. Then he wondered how I could read about it so much.
In answer to your question Wonder Dog,
quote: When "Hotel Rwanda" premiered at Toronto 2004, some reviews criticized the film for focusing on Paul and the colonel, and making little effort to "depict" the genocide as a whole. But director Terry George and writer Keir Pearson have made exactly the correct decision. A film cannot be about a million murders, but it can be about how a few people respond. Paul, as it happens, is a real person, and Col. Oliver is based on one, and "Hotel Rwanda" is about what they really did. The story took shape after Pearson visited Rwanda and heard of a group of people who were saved from massacre.
quote: In April of that year, President Habyarimana died when his airplane was shot down outside Kigali. Although no group was officially held responsible, the killing is thought by many to have been carried out by Hutu extremists who could then shift blame to the Tutsi.
Anyway, if you haven't seen this movie, you should.
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