A classic

Rating: 10/10 (8 March 2008)

OK, I'm a little late to this, but I'm stunned that this film won no major awards. It is the most moving film I've ever seen (I thought about qualifying that, but actually, no). It shows the best and worst of humanity at once. Is it enough to make a man cry? If it's not, that man should worry. The Oscars in the year this was released went to a biopic of Ray Charles and a film about a woman who boxes. Even the Baftas ignored it. If you've seen this film, your irony-meter will be off the scale right now. 'We don't care about you', how true. Below is some relevant text to satisfy the rather bizarre length rule imposed on comments. History shows us that genocides can happen only if four important conditions are in place. There must be the cover of a war. Ethnic grievances must be manipulated and exaggerated. Ordinary citizens must be deputized by their government to become executioners. And the rest of the world must be persuaded to look away and do nothing. This last is the most shameful of all, especially so because genocide is happening again right now in the Darfur region of Sudan, and the world community has done precious little to stop the killings.
What is happening in Darfur is exactly what happened in my home country of Rwanda, which was left to choke on its own blood from April to July of 1994.
The United Nations took virtually no action during the genocide. A detachment of well-equipped peacekeepers, made up of less than one-twentieth of the American troops now stationed in Iraq, could have easily stopped the killings without risk and sent the powerful message that the world would no longer tolerate mass murders of civilians, a real expression of the phrase "Never Again." But this simple act was deemed, then and now, to be somehow beyond the power of the United Nations, the United States, NATO, the European community and everybody else with th