Reflection: HOtel Rwanda! =)

Over the past couple of days we have been watching the movie, Hotel Rwanda in class. This was my second time watching the movie and after watching it again my perspective changed and I saw things in the movie that I didn't see before.
Question: How this movie was intended to impact you and its actual effects.

While watching this movie I took notes on certain scenes, quotes, and general ideas that really impacted me. Overall, I think that this movie was intended to show the truth of the Rwandan genocide and to convey the true emotions and disorder that occured there. The movie was really powerful and really captured the time and setting in which the genocide occured. Personally, I think that this movie was very well done and fully conveyed the distress and anger of the two people groups. Through this movie we can obviously see that there were killers "bad guys" and victims. This is evident through the amount of people killed and their actions were not at all justified.

Some scenes that really impacted me were:

-When Gregoire and Paul drove along the riverside and came across many dead bodies.

-When the foriengers were all evacuted (There was a sense of hopelessness and helplessness).

-All the scenes in which houses were destroyed and people were being beaten or killed.

-The Hutus entering the hotel.

-Paul staying behind at the hotel and seeing his family leave.

-Paul crying after he cannot butten his shirt.

(These are some of the many scenes that really effected me and really impacted me throughout the movie.

SOme quotes that really impacted me were:

*Quote from the beginning of the movie, "When people ask me, good listeners, why do I hate all the Tutsi, I say, "Read our history." The Tutsi were collaborators for the Belgian colonists, they stole our Hutu land, they whipped us. Now they have come back, these Tutsi rebels. They are cockroaches. They are murderers. Rwanda is our Hutu land. We are the majority. They are a minority of traitors and invaders. We will squash the infestation. We will wipe out the RPF rebels. This is RTLM, Hutu power radio. Stay alert. Watch your neighbours. "

*"There will be no rescue, no intervention for us."

* " I think if people see this footage, they'll say Oh, my God, that's horrible. And then they'll go on eating their dinners."

* "You're black. You're not even a nigger. You're an African"

* "Please don't let them kill me. I... I promise I won't be Tutsi anymore."

* "They're not going to stay, Paul. They're not going to stop the slaughter."

In conclusion, I think that this movie was intented to get people to stand up and to realize some of the true things that we should be worried about in this world. We can take a stand and we should take a stand for what is right. This movie shows a glimpse of what our world has come to... and who knows where it will go in the future if we don't stop things before thousands of people get killed.

- Furthermore, the actual affects of this movie left me speechless. I cannot even begin to imagine what an experience like this would be like. I don't know how people would/could ever recover from so much trauma, fear, and heart-ache. Personally, I don't think that I could ever recover from such events. The intentions of the movie and the actual affects of the movie are very similar. Both aspects were intented to open peoples eyes and show the truth, these two things were both conveyed with emotion and were shown in a way that makes people want to do something about it. Therefore, both aspects are very similar in their intentions and both conveyed the injustice and fear that took place in Rwanda.