Hotel Rwanda
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BrianH
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krizon, it's based on the true story of Paul Rusesabagina, a hotel manager who saved over a thousand Tutsis refugees during their struggle against the Hutu militia in Rwanda.
The tagline in the ads for the film is: "When the world closed its eyes, he opened his arms."
The film is directed by Terry George and stars Don Cheadle and Nick Nolte. Don Cheadle has been nominated for the best actor Oscar for his role as Rusesabagina and British actress Sophie Okonedo, who plays his wife, has been nominated for best supporting actress.
I fear that they won't win though, as Jamie Foxx is a certainty to win best actor for "Ray" and Cate Blanchett should win best supporting actress for playing Katherine Hepburn in "Aviator".
The tagline in the ads for the film is: "When the world closed its eyes, he opened his arms."
The film is directed by Terry George and stars Don Cheadle and Nick Nolte. Don Cheadle has been nominated for the best actor Oscar for his role as Rusesabagina and British actress Sophie Okonedo, who plays his wife, has been nominated for best supporting actress.
I fear that they won't win though, as Jamie Foxx is a certainty to win best actor for "Ray" and Cate Blanchett should win best supporting actress for playing Katherine Hepburn in "Aviator".
Thanks, Brian. Is there a book about this event? I'd be interested in reading it if there is. It's something I didn't know about, but, having stopped reading 'Time' and 'Newsweek' some time ago, there's rather a lot I don't! It sounds like a film I might go and see, although I still find thinking about some of the images from that conflict very upsetting.
Excellent, suny, muchas gracias and thanks very much. I looked at the trailer, and I will probably go to see the film. But...
My parents and I lived very close to the Belgian Congo when it more or less threw independence at the Congolese in the early 1960s. We had a lot of Belgian refugees fleeing through Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia) at that time, and the terrible, cruel things done by the drunken and drugged-up army to both white and black missionaries, especially nuns, and ordinary people at that time were appalling and detailed in our daily news. I have to say I'm more anxious to look upon positive things about Africa in general, but I realize it's riddled with tribalism, and corruption at most levels of authority, and is far, far from the self-governing idylls envisaged by the newly-independent ex-colonies. It shouldn't be run down, disease-ridden, and so often with a begging-bowl in its' hands, because all of its' countries were left with fully-functioning infrastructures which could have been maintained, if not actively expanded, and thousands of expatriates did not desert overnight following independence. It's just that there are so many examples of nepotism and tribal favouritism, that cruelties like the Rwandan genocide are almost inevitable. Zimbabwe is well on its' way to the next brutality.
It's all very well for the 'West' to keep lecturing itself about racism, but unfortunately it's not confined to white vs black or black vs white. It's not that simplistic. Western governments would do well to see what kind of representation in Parliament the different tribes in African countries have, and whether oppression is being allowed, so that again and again more 'Rwandas' will occur in the future, while we all look on, apparently surprised.
So, I MAY see the film, but if I do I know I'm going to feel very, very angry - and not because there will be an inevitable criticism of the West for not doing enough during and after the killing. If we had any guts at all, we'd be telling the story straight, and pointing the finger of racial (i.e. tribal) hatred at several African governments right now, and telling them to clean up their act BEFORE the next eruption. Do you think we will do that? Or do we only lecture when it's in our direct interest to do so?
My parents and I lived very close to the Belgian Congo when it more or less threw independence at the Congolese in the early 1960s. We had a lot of Belgian refugees fleeing through Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia) at that time, and the terrible, cruel things done by the drunken and drugged-up army to both white and black missionaries, especially nuns, and ordinary people at that time were appalling and detailed in our daily news. I have to say I'm more anxious to look upon positive things about Africa in general, but I realize it's riddled with tribalism, and corruption at most levels of authority, and is far, far from the self-governing idylls envisaged by the newly-independent ex-colonies. It shouldn't be run down, disease-ridden, and so often with a begging-bowl in its' hands, because all of its' countries were left with fully-functioning infrastructures which could have been maintained, if not actively expanded, and thousands of expatriates did not desert overnight following independence. It's just that there are so many examples of nepotism and tribal favouritism, that cruelties like the Rwandan genocide are almost inevitable. Zimbabwe is well on its' way to the next brutality.
It's all very well for the 'West' to keep lecturing itself about racism, but unfortunately it's not confined to white vs black or black vs white. It's not that simplistic. Western governments would do well to see what kind of representation in Parliament the different tribes in African countries have, and whether oppression is being allowed, so that again and again more 'Rwandas' will occur in the future, while we all look on, apparently surprised.
So, I MAY see the film, but if I do I know I'm going to feel very, very angry - and not because there will be an inevitable criticism of the West for not doing enough during and after the killing. If we had any guts at all, we'd be telling the story straight, and pointing the finger of racial (i.e. tribal) hatred at several African governments right now, and telling them to clean up their act BEFORE the next eruption. Do you think we will do that? Or do we only lecture when it's in our direct interest to do so?
It is a film based in real story.
I find the film extremely well filmed and it is a deep film.
I think it was terrible what happened there and Occident should have acted and not leave them doing what they did.
I find Europe are even more responsible of what happened there than the americans and also think african are the people of the whole globe more vengative and brutal.
It is woth going tothe cinema to watch this film.
I find the film extremely well filmed and it is a deep film.
I think it was terrible what happened there and Occident should have acted and not leave them doing what they did.
I find Europe are even more responsible of what happened there than the americans and also think african are the people of the whole globe more vengative and brutal.
It is woth going tothe cinema to watch this film.