Hotel Rwanda

I just got finished watching this movie. There are simply no words that can be used to describe it. I have also never cried so hard during a movie in my entire life. For those who are unaware as to what this movie is about, it involves the 100-day-long genocide that happened in Rwanda in 1994, where a Hutu militia called the Interahamwe killed almost one million Tutsis and moderate Hutus, which ended when Tutsi rebels overthrew the Hutu regime. However, it mostly focused on how Paul Rusesabagina, a Hutu and a manager at the Mille Collines Hotel in Kigali, managed to save over 1,200 Tutsi and Hutu refugees. He managed this by allowing them to stay in the hotel, as well as bribing certain higher-ranking officials.

This is an extremely intense movie, and the way that Rusesabagina saved all those people is quite similar to the way that Oskar Schindler saved a great number of Jews during World War II (as seen in Schindler's List). The film also has a focus on the relationship between Rusesabagina and his Tutsi wife, Tatiana, and their children. Also interesting is how the rest of the world seemed disinclined to do nothing. This happened when I was about 10/11, and I remember seeing hardly anything about this on the news (then again, I was 11, and rather disinclined to pay attention to the news at the time). All in all, a very emotional, moving movie.