I finally rented Hotel Rwanda

[AlCzervik]

i haven't watched it yet, how many tissues will i need?

[Zuni]

1. read the book

"We wish to inform you that tommorow we will be killed along with our families" by Philip Gourevitch. (yes. that is the whole title)

It is one of the best books on any historical event in my opinion.

[AlCzervik]

3. i have some library books that need returning, i will check that one out

thanks.

[Bouncy Ball]

2. Two boxes.

:cry:

I also got angry watching it. Be prepared for that.

[RubyDuby in GA]

7. I agree with the two boxes and about being angry

I was seriously pissed at Big Dog after watching that.

[Sequoia]

4. It's riviting. Very, very good movie.

I shiver just to think about it.

[bigwillq]

5. A whole box shall do!

It's not so much that it makes you cry--there's so many spine-tingling parts and parts where your jaw touches the ground. Shocked and stunned moments rather than cry moments but I did cry.
The movie affects people differently.

It's very good. Enjoy it. :hi:

[SmokingJacket]

6. I actually had to leave the room about 2/3 through.

It was just too intense.

I mean, it was really, really good, and Don Cheadle was amazing, but I honestly couldn't hack the tension.

My husband watched the whole thing and said the ending was worth it though.

It really makes you realize how important PEACE is -- sounds obvious, but when you see the movie you'll see what I mean.

[Teaser]

8. It nails Clinton

with a well deserved punch, too.

[Zuni]

9. What about Mitterand?

What he did was much more deplorable than Clinton. His government actively assisted the Hutu power, sending them arms through the genocide.
The French soldiers, while on a 'peacekeeping' intervention, also sided with the Hutus and spent more time letting the guilty flee and fighting the RPF (made up of Rwandan exiles and anti Hutu power rwandans) who actually ended the massacre.

Behind French lines, the Hutus were allowed to do as they pleased and/or escape to Zaire (now the Congo). the Hutu forces in Zaire were one of the reasons that Zaire plunged into a civil war, a war that has lasted years and caused the deaths of more than 1 million people.

[Teaser]

10. France comes in for strong criticism but not Mitterand...

cause no one here knows who he is, sad to say.

[Zuni]

11. Well, it is probably true

that France would have supported the Hutu, francophone side of the conflict against the Anglophone RPF no matter who was running the show over in France. France has a sordid post colonial history in Africa. Cannibal Dictator Jean-Bedel Bokassa was personally a close friend of then French Pres. Valery Giscard D'Estaing. D'Estaing later came under fire from many people for accepting gifts of diamonds from Bokassa when it came out in the news, and the French Government and military-industrial conflict for the huge amount of support they gave him. The slaughter of hundreds of children caused the French to quickly install a less grotesque puppet regime, using french troops stationed there. Bokassa has lived in another French dominated African neo-colony, the Ivory Coast (Cote D'Ivoire) and in Paris.
After he was removed, Africans were horrified to find his house full of human remains, just like Idi Amin's. Both men were cannibals and larger than life characters.

[tjdee]

12. It was pretty good. The acting was better than the overall film, IMO.

I thought it was a good movie--Don Cheadle did an amazing job, and Sophie Okenedo outdid him. She was beyond wonderful. Of course the story is awful and frustrating.

I didn't need to leave the room or use any tissues though.

I've always wondered, and maybe this is slightly racist of me, but I wonder if white folks who see these kinds of movies are more affected than nonwhite folks. I'm just sayin'. For example, I wasn't blown away by Boyz in the Hood, or Menace II Society...

Or maybe it's just me, and I'm an unfeeling freak? :scared: I tend not to be shocked by real life villains. Just kind of disappointed.