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Hotel Rwanda - "The truth, we can't handle the truth."
It is eons beyond The Aviator as a movie and I am sure should have beaten out Million Dollar Baby for some Oscars.
I'll have to see the latter to confirm this though.
Its one of those "You can't handle the truth" movies that is too shocking for many people.
A Schindlers List where we are the indifferent people overseas.
In dealing with the why it helped having read Jared Diamond's rational economically based reasons for the genocide.
Too many people on too little land is the basic reason.
In one district with no Tutsi's there was still a mass killing of local land owners and rich people.
I find it ironic that the Tutsi rebels were the ones to bring stability to the region.
Maybe as a ruling miniority they are more conscious of being somewhat even handed with the people they rule.
The Hutu militia is still in the Congo as we speak.
The movie did put the Canadian Armed Forces in a positive albeit outgunned light.
I can see why Senator Dallaire had a breakdown after it was over.
The film shows the character based on him trying to something with very little an example being taking on a mob or armed troops with handguns.
The International Red Cross also comes across in a good light constantly laying their life on the line in a country not their own.
In the end the message is that you have to try and save yourself and take responsibility rather than wait for help.
I'll have to see the latter to confirm this though.
Its one of those "You can't handle the truth" movies that is too shocking for many people.
A Schindlers List where we are the indifferent people overseas.
In dealing with the why it helped having read Jared Diamond's rational economically based reasons for the genocide.
Too many people on too little land is the basic reason.
In one district with no Tutsi's there was still a mass killing of local land owners and rich people.
I find it ironic that the Tutsi rebels were the ones to bring stability to the region.
Maybe as a ruling miniority they are more conscious of being somewhat even handed with the people they rule.
The Hutu militia is still in the Congo as we speak.
The movie did put the Canadian Armed Forces in a positive albeit outgunned light.
I can see why Senator Dallaire had a breakdown after it was over.
The film shows the character based on him trying to something with very little an example being taking on a mob or armed troops with handguns.
The International Red Cross also comes across in a good light constantly laying their life on the line in a country not their own.
In the end the message is that you have to try and save yourself and take responsibility rather than wait for help.
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~Maggie
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And you're right, Jeff. Most/many people just can't handle the truth. I would never suggest that my mother see this picture, though it was the most powerful I've ever seen.
Whoa...
I love Nick Nolte's drunken confession of how the West views Africans. And he WAS a Canadian and U.N. Badass (something rare in Cinema).
As someone who has seen his share of Third World Reality, this movie should have swept the drama categories. Hollywood loves addiction and moral hand-wringing and chicks crying over genuinely powerful tales anyday.
The more this is talked up, the better.
Re: Whoa...
As it was Rwanda was an event in their lifetime they did nothing about.
It was nice seeing Canadians and UN as badasses esp when the Legion comes in and then goes away.
As a Canadian I would have had no problems at the time with us sending the Airbourne Regiment however at the time the AR was under a cloud due to the Arone case in Somalia and no one in out gov't. was going to allow our troops to shoot at Africans.