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Posted Jun 28, 2005 - My God. I don't think I have ever been so horrified by a film. One of the few times I have felt badly to be an American-the depiction of us standing idly by while this horror happened unnerved me.

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Posted Feb 27, 2005 - I appreciate the raising awareness factor of the movie and that the seriousness was conveyed without showing many scenes of violence. However, the movie makes it seem as if the Hutu/Tutsi problem was limited to that time period and place, though there have been thousands (millions?) more of them killed in Burundi, Congo,and Uganda before and since. Hopefully, this movie will cause us to be more involved in the various slaughters going on in Africa now and what little the US,UN and individuals are doing. "savages, expendable as Jews?" (from D. Walcott's "A Far Cry from Africa) Please say another prayer, write another letter/e-mail, write another check: www.doctorswithoutborders.org

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Posted Feb 26, 2005 - I am not a real big fan of people taking History lessons from Hollywood, however, I think this movie is one of the best mediums to teach young westeners that the Holocaust wasn't the only holocaust of the 20th Century. Canadian youth learn about the massacre briefly, too briefly actually, because of Canadian involvement in peacekeeping there. However, I don't know how much young Americans are taught on the subject, and I think that this movie is the best source to get the point across. Not a lot of people saw it, I know it won't win the Oscar for Best Picture, but I wish it would. Not for pretigue, but for recognition, so that more people will go and see it. I haven't seen any of the other movies up for the award (don't really know WHAT movies are up for the award), but I can honestly say that this in one of the best movies I have seen in a while. One of the few movies I don't mind paying 10+ bucks to see in the theater. The only thing I found wrong was Nick Nolte and ambush scene. I felt it was too action-hero like.

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Posted Feb 23, 2005 - Magellan did an excellent review of this movie, and it was one of the best I have seen in a long time. The hotel manager (Paul Rusesabagina) is a real life hero who put his own life on the line for his people. There are some wonderful articles online about him. Don't miss this one.

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Posted Feb 22, 2005 - Chilling. Some time ago I did some freelance journalist work interviewing refugees of the massacres of the period. I heard stories I wish I could scrub from my mind, and I have twice interviewed serial killers. The movie was incredible, although a little grim.

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Posted Jun 28, 2005 - A great contemporary film. Well-written, acted, and directed.

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Posted Mar 22, 2005 - Had Don Cheadle and Sophie Okenedo been nominated for many prestigious awards would this movie have been viewed and raised awareness about whats going on not just in Rwanda, but Sierra Leone, Ethiopia and Uganda? I don't think so. The BBC was the only channel in the world that covered what was going on and to me thats simply not enough, theres more value on human life than people think its just a pity an independent movie is showing people whats going on in the world.

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This is a movie you catch for the history lesson, ...

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Posted Feb 22, 2005 - This is a movie you catch for the history lesson, much more than the entertainment value. There's plenty to admire in the movie, though it's heavy subject matter. I'm glad I went last weekend, and felt ashamed I didn't know more about the million people systematically slaughtered during the mid-nineties in Rwanda's Holocaust of sorts. The lesson in the movie is why is makes sense for the UN and its supporting countries to intervene during a major international crisis, which happened too little too late in Rwanda. It's easy to relate to the family that the movie centers around, and seeing all the modern day conveniences in most every scene do much to defeat myths people have of lifestyles in Africa. Big props to the heroic real-life hotel manager who is excellently portrayed by Don Cheadle in the film.

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Posted Feb 22, 2005 - Predictably when you consider the subject matter, Hotel Rwanda is not a particularly uplifting movie. But it is an excellent one. Without giving anything away, Hotel Rwanda is the true story of a Hutu hotel manager of a four star hotel in Kigali who converted the hotel at which he worked into a refugee camp for Hutus and Tutsis during the 1994 massacre (mostly by machete) that slaughtered about 1M civilians. It's an extremely educational film - for example, I didn't know that the Hutu and Tutu designation had been arbitrarily assigned by the Belgian colonialists based on completely subjective physical attributes (e.g. "you're pretty tall, you shall be a tutsi). The movie does a really good job of showing that Kigali is a civilized, modern city - and the massacre that took place was not between two bloodthirsty tribes in the desert somewhere. But most of all, Hotel Rwanda illustrates with chilling, powerful simplicity what can happen with out of control partisanship, combined with hate radio, combined with animosity. My wife cried pretty much entirely through this movie, and parts of it are hard to handle. But it's worth seeing, if nothing else for the education, and to see the brilliant performance of Don Cheadle.

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Posted Jun 28, 2005 - My God. I don't think I have ever been so horrified by a film. One of the few times I have felt badly to be an American-the depiction of us standing idly by while this horror happened unnerved me.

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My God. I don't think I have ever been so horrifi ...

I appreciate the raising awareness factor of the m ...

I am not a real big fan of people taking History l ...

Magellan did an excellent review of this movie, an ...

Chilling. Some time ago I did some freelance jour ...

A great contemporary film. Well-written, acted, a ...

Had Don Cheadle and Sophie Okenedo been nominated ...

This is a movie you catch for the history lesson, ...

Predictably when you consider the subject matter, ...

My God. I don't think I have ever been so horrifi ...

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