Mar 09, 2005 06:12 PM
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Review on a Movie I saw while I travelled to Burundi.
Cast: Don Cheadle, Sophie Okonedo, Nick Nolte, Joaquin Phoenix
Director: Terry George
Producers: Terry George, A. Kitman Ho
Screenplay: Keir Pearson & Terry George
Cinematography: Robert Fraisse
Music: Rupert Gregson-Williams
U.S. Distributor: United Artists
A ?Must see Movie? in your life.
You haven?t seen a movie in your life unless you see ?Hotel Rwanda Movie?
You haven?t cried in your life unless you see ?Hotel Rwanda Movie?
You haven?t grown up in your life unless you see ?Hotel Rwanda Movie?
You will never be a good Manager unless you see ?Hotel Rwanda Movie?
You haven?t discovered how blessed you are unless you see ?Hotel Rwanda Movie?
The movie is explaining what happened in the African country (Rwanda) during 1994 and personalizing the story. In Hotel Rwanda movie you will meet ?Paul Rusesabagina? (Don Cheadle), the then-manager of the five-star Hotel Milles Collines in Kigali.
In the country population, 85 % of the population is Hutu and 14 % is Tutsi (mostly taller). Education is free and officially compulsory for children between ages 7 to 15. During the colonial powers Germany (1890-1916) and Belgium (1916-1961). As is well-known, the Belgians favored the Tutsi.
*When Hutu extremists took over the country in 1994, their first goal was to exterminate all of the Tutsi people (whom they call ''cockroaches''). The spark of the fire was caused by the plane clash which killed the Rwanda president (a Hutu) who was flying from Tanzania to Rwanda and had just signed a peace agreement between the Rwandan Government and the Rwandan rebels. The whole blame was put into the Tutsi people.
*With the U.N. mired in red tape that rendered their peace-keepers ineffective and most of the world turning a blind eye, there was little to stop the Hutus from slaughtering the Tutsis. Paul, a Hutu married to a Tutsi (Sophie Okonedo), takes a stand, allowing Tutsi refugees to camp out at the hotel. Initially, he is able to employ bribery to keep the soldiers away, but, when his stocks of wine and whiskey run dry, he finds the circumstances increasingly desperate and he must resort to extreme measures to save not only the refugees but his family and himself.
In only three months, almost 1 million people were brutally murdered. Surprisingly, in an era of high-speed communication and round-the-clock news, the events went almost unnoticed by the rest of the world!
***What happened in Rwanda isn't an isolated example. Now and then there continuous warnings before the great events happen. Calamities like tsunami, HIV, hurricanes, earthquakes, wars e.t.c. are just like a ?light touch? as compared to the great events which will happen in the coming ?end of the times?.
Conflicts that are occurring now re-enforces the notion that mankind is incapable of learning from history. And mankind keeps watching and listening, with eyes & ears which neither see nor hear! Until it is TOO LATE.
Sources:
https://cinemaclock.com/aw/crva.aw/p.clock/r.bri/m.Kelowna/j.e/i.7498/f.Hotel_R
wanda.html
https://web.africa.ufl.edu/asq/v7/v7i1a5.htm
https://movie-reviews.colossus.net/movies/h/hotel_rwanda.html https://mgm.com/ua/hotelrwanda/intro.html
https://go.philly.com/carrierickey.
https://contenderministries.org/prophecy/endtimes.php
