Today in Religion class we finished watching the movie Hotel Rwanda. It has to be one of the saddest movies i have seen. To think that just 2 years before i was born over a million people died because they belonged to a different tribe.
Hutus- People in power
Tutsis- Called Cockroaches
It was about a man named Paul and his family trying to get through this war between two tribes who are from the same country. Paul is the manager of a hotel that becomes like a refugee camp from a 5 star hotel. Paul's wife, Tatiana, is Tutsi and he is Hutu so he helps everyone but gets nothing back in return.
The movie is so sad and a bit frightening but it truly gets the message across of what was happening in Rwanda and shows you how White people responded to this genocide. A line in the movie was "When people see this footage, they will say its horrible but then eat there dinners" I think this is very true and is still happening today, When we see the tragedies that are happening in Syria we are shocked but then after we continue to live our lives as if nothing is happening. We do not do anything.
I feel ashamed to think that we did not do anything to help those Innocent people.
I defiantly preferred Hotel Rwanda to Sometimes In April because i think it got to me more and the situations that people were in made me realise just how bad things were, than just the story of one man in Sometimes In April.
Anastasia
