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...film is strongest at it is most brutal and real. The terrifyingly cruel Hutu militia, repeated images of sobbing Rwandan children literally pulled off of the evacuated Caucasians and scenes littered with corpses create an emotional context for the movie in the absence of captivating characters...
...film is strongest at it is most brutal and real. The terrifyingly cruel Hutu militia, repeated images of sobbing Rwandan children literally pulled off of the evacuated Caucasians and scenes littered with corpses create an emotional context for the movie in the absence of captivating characters...
...April 1994, he was manager of the luxurious Hotel Mille Collines in the Rwandan capital of Kigali. Hundreds of Tutsi civilians sought refuge inside the walls of his hotel. As genocidal Hutu extremists massed along the Mille Collines’ perimeter, Rusesabagina called for help. The US and its allies in the UN Security Council shamelessly ignored Rusesabagina’s cry. The top UN peacekeeper in Rwanda at the time, Lt. Gen. Romeo Dallaire, recounts in his memoirs: “the people in the Mille Collines were like live bait being toyed with by a wild animal...
George and MGM couldn’t have picked a more opportune moment to release a film about African genocide. Sudan’s systematic elimination of Black Muslims in Darfur evokes memories of the Rwandan slaughter. But George says the timing of the film’s opening is entirely coincidental—“we made it as fast as we could,” he says. And George rightly notes that “Hotel” is not overtly polemical. “What I wanted to do with the film was let the political...
Nonetheless, almost all viewers of Hotel should come away with a few common conclusions. First, at the time of the Rwandan conflict, then-UN Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali described the situation as “Hutus killing Tutsis and Tutsis killing Hutus.” Dallaire calls this “the myth of the double genocide.” Indeed, the ethnic Tutsi rebels who liberated Kigali at the end of the civil war certainly did commit reprehensible atrocities. But Rwanda—like Darfur—was a one-sided slaughter...