sabato, maggio 07, 2005
:: Hotel Rwanda ::‘Hotel Rwanda’ is a film based on a true story that happened during the four months of civil unrest and blatant massacre of the Tutsis by the Hutus. For more than ten years, Rwanda has been rift with fighting between the two tribes. The massacre was sparked off when the president (a Hutu) died in a plane crash. It was believed that the crash was due to the Tutsis, and thus, the Hutus started methodically killing the Tutsis.
uprising
Although the UN forces were in place in Rwanda, they were as useful as a bag of rocks in a fight… can’t use them as weapons, only can hide behind them… this might not be a really great metaphor, oh heck, it’s probably an odd AND lousy one. But anyway, it didn’t do anyone much good when they couldn’t fire at the rebels. Our hero is a Tutsi, placed in charge of a Belgian hotel during those 4 months. He opened up the hotel to take in close to 1,200 refugees, using all ways and means to forestall attacks from the Hutus. He bribed the Hutu leader to save a group of Tutsis (including his own family), bought booze and all the comforts that only a hotel could afford, using them as bargain chips to keep the pple in his hotel safe, just for another hour, another day.
Apart from revealing much about the lives of these people, this film also reveals much about the selfishness or rather, the practical nature of the 'big' countries... ie. those who call the shots in the UN. In fact, they refrained from calling the slaughter of the Tutsis as 'genocide' because such a situation would require the US and UN to intervene. Had there been any other value of Rwanda... if she held vast amounts of oil, if she were a potential market or had some other economic value, there wouldn't have been close to a million corpses left at the end of the four month reign of terror of the Hutus. It goes to show us just how much the 'people of Rwanda' meant to these so-called peacekeepers. Somehow, it also disgusts me, the way the ‘big and powerful’ nations are. It rather disgusts me. Reinforcements were only sent to rescue their own pple from the war torn areas. It’s finally up to our hero to help his own people.
"no one to help us but ourselves"
The film, with all its colour and richness, manages to portray the entire gamut of emotions, from relief, to absolute fear.
This is a very powerful, and moving film… yeap. The intensity of the film is further enhanced by the wonderfully beautiful music.
Check out the site for the cool trailer -> Hotel Rwanda
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