must see

Rating: 10/10 (14 January 2005)

I went to see this movie with great reluctance. I had read about the events in Rwanda in 1994 and assumed this movie would be a "downer" and difficult to watch. I was completely wrong -- the movie is riveting from beginning to end, and I thought the scenes with the disembodied radio voice ordering massacres were among the most powerful and disturbing I've ever seen on film. A brilliant job capturing, on a personal level, the horror of the events (although, from what I understand, the horror was actually far worse than what we see in the film). What I believe separates this film from many others is that the events portrayed actually happened during the adult lifetime of most of the viewers of the film...