We Think You're Dirt

Rating: 9/10 (19 November 2005)

I'm not sure how to explain just how moving this movie is. I'd never heard of this movie, just happened to catch it on the Movie Network, and it was one of those rare experiences where I couldn't stop watching.
The movie is really documentary in style, and makes you feel, sickeningly, like you are there. Stomach churning, revolting to think what man can do to man, people who are so similar killing each other.
You will think it is sad to hear the Western Reporter comment that the two women could be twins, even though one was Hutu and one was Tutsi, you understand the evil in the hearts of some Africans. But that is nothing compared to the UN General's declaration that "We Think you are DIRT". His declaration, of course, was not his personal opinion, but simply a condemnation of how the West treats even the worst crimes in Africa.
That is when you realize that the evil there is borne of two peoples with a history of hatred, but the evil borne from the West has no excuse. The poor black people in Africa are entirely left to their own means, to let what will happen, happen. Even UN help on the ground is withdrawn.
And it would take a fool not to see that this is still going on -- as the west, and the US especially, protects its own interests in Iraq, and ignores current genocide in Darfur, it almost makes one ashamed to be from the West, or it made me feel that way at least. I was less sickened by the genocide than I was by the people who turned their backs on these crimes.
It's really a sickening movie that you MUST see. 10/10 from where I sit