Crazy human

Sincere 2022-03-19 09:01:03

For us living on the other side of the earth in a "harmonious and peaceful celestial dynasty", this history of Africa seems to exist only when sitting with family for dinner after get off work every day, through CCAV's "News Broadcast" in just a few seconds. Long shots, and what's on the press release with a simple narrative. Perhaps in the occasional gap between raising their heads and picking up vegetables, everyone would not painfully insert a sentence: "Oh, dad, look, those backward Africans are really barbaric." But for Rwanda, which is full of racial contradictions and constant wars, this was what was happening and happening, a real purgatory on earth.

The Hutu massacre against the Tutsi in the first half of the movie, and the Tutsi turn to kill the Hutu in the second half of the film, the cycle is endless. This is an unclear fact. People use the most primitive weapons, knives and clubs to fight their neighbors, just because they feel that if they don't kill each other at this time, they will be killed in the next second. The movie doesn’t have any fancy shots (it’s more like a well-made documentary, in fact, I think the movie is not enough to render the Holocaust, it didn’t capture the blood and despair), and some are just the simplest. Shaking truth.

After the movie is released, it is easy for people to compare it with Spielberg’s famous blockbuster of the same type. Who is the greater Paul or Schindler? I think that this world will never lack sin, but it will never lack the glory of humanity.

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Extended Reading
  • Jayme 2022-03-22 09:01:16

    Two and a half stars. Waste the subject advantage. There are many loopholes in the performance of the choreographer's technical performance, the exhaustion cycle is too short, the suspense is low in the second half, and the sense of scraping is strong. In addition, the story from the white perspective (even though politically correct self-deprecating against double racism) presents a ticklish story, and it is still American middle-class family values ​​that underpin the work. The humanitarian pattern has been tragically made small and spread out. // ps History cannot be forgotten, but it cannot be interpreted by Hollywood.

  • Garret 2022-03-21 09:01:19

    Under the prestigious name, it's actually difficult. With the gimmicks of historical films, it is too frivolous to simplify the complex history of conflict between the two nations into a binary opposition between justice and evil, warlord dictatorship, and personal freedom. Even setting aside the recurrence and respect for history itself, this should be at least an African film. But from the hotel manager and the family relationship, there is not the slightest breath of Rwandan life. This is a middle-class American family in Africa. Except for a black skin, the protagonist is all white, afraid that he is not a mangosteen. From this point of view, the film has a strong white perspective from the selection of actors to the selection of visual images, from conflict establishment to conflict resolution, from character modeling to spatial modeling, from script to lines. It has to be said that this has formed an interesting intertextuality with the black and white relationship in the film, and it is even more attractive than the film itself. Finally, Bai Zuo, the male lead wife, was too annoying.

Hotel Rwanda quotes

  • Pat Archer: [relating the last words of the orphan slain by the Hutus] Please don't let them kill me. I... I promise I won't be Tutsi anymore.

  • [last lines]

    Pat Archer: [walking with family towards bus] They said that there wasn't any room.

    Paul Rusesabagina: There's always room.