Hotel Rwanda

I think most of the war movies focus on telling the accurate history of the war and also the love between the characters in the movie. Similar to those movies, I felt that this movie's key intention was to let us know about this incident; to show how those inhumane genocide happened and how it changed a person's life which wasn't that long time ago. Many people didn't know what was happening in Rwanda during the genocide and I think the writer and the director of the movie wanted to tell what exactly happened there and that it could happen anywhere else if we don't pay attention to other countries near us. I have never heard about this genocide in Rwanda and I was ashamed at myself for being ignorant and I was glad that I saw this movie. It showed me how being indifferent to others in order to save myself could really destroy them even though it may not seem of a big deal.

Hotel Rwanda

As I read one of the articles that are on edline, I noticed that there were lot of controversies over America's saying that they did not know the seriousness of the genocide going on in Rwanda where 8,000 people were being killed everyday. Maybe it was that America or other countries did not want to intervene in the war and lose their men but I think that media didn't portray the seriousness of the war well enough so that other people out of Rwanda would understand. In the interview with the BBC reporter, the reporter said that it took a while for him to realize the seriousness of the war even though he was in Rwanda himself. In the movie, there was a woman who said that genocide was not happening in Rwanda and I think that those kinds of words gave an impression to the people outside of Rwanda that it wasn't a big deal but just a normal civil war. I totally agreed when a person in the movie said that when people see bad news they would just say 'oh what a bad thing' and then continue to flip the channel. If the media isn't that strong enough to grab the audience's attention, then nothing would actually change.