Hotel Rwanda





Many Americans have closed their eyes and ears to the 1994 massacre in the African country of Rwanda. Casualties were almost a million and thousands of people were left without food, shelter and family. On April 6, Rwandan President Habyarimana was killed and a revolution sparked between two rival African groups, "the Hutus" and "the Tutsis". Paul Rusesabagina is the house manager of the Des Mille Collines, a luxurious hotel owned by the Belgians. He is one of the Hutus and has a wife and three kids. Rusesabagina was at first afraid of getting involved in and so he ignore to believe that peace between the Hutus and the Tutsis is underway. Tension mounts when his tutsi neighbors are raided and beaten down because of their identity. When his own wife and children are threatened and all his neighbors were forced out of their homes, he couldn't just ignore it anymore. The Hutu soldiers arrive to kill those people and so Paul have to plead for their lives and bribed the Hutu officers in order to spare his wife and neighbors, with the supplies that the Hutus need. They were allowed to go to Paul's hotel. On the way, they drive past the unpleasant scenes of massacres in the streets that even blocked the roads, people crawling with bloods and the Hutus rebellions dancing with joy. In the middle of such scenes, Paul attempts to protect so many Tutsi refugees, allowing to stay them at his hotel. He strives to maintain the dignity of his hotel by creating the safety in the wilderness of these genocides. He hopes for an international intervention to stop the slaughter and provide safety for his hotel guests. Unfortunately, the UN troops drive up to the hotel and boarded only the foreigners and they abandoned the Rwandans. The situation got worse and later when all the water supplies are cut off, the guests were forced to start using the water from the swimming pool for all their uses. Paul even ran out of the supplies to bribe the Hutu officer but he managed to use his wise sense to keep them off from danger. There is a UN peacekeeping colonel who has a good intention towards Paul and was also eager to intervene and stop the massacre. The movie stated one of the most horrifying and ugly events in recent history of a campaign of genocide while the rest of the world looked on and did nothing. It was all about how a man could save a thousand of lives despite how hard the situations he had to face. As a conclusion, i would like to recommend this movie if you like a riveting kind of drama. This film highlighted a way to channel the importance of peace in our world.