Hotel Rwanda, full of great shots and full of propaganda

Rating: 3/10 (27 July 2006)

The film itself has great acting and a "true story" plot line. The problem with the film is the story's failure to give any insight and truth to the actual problems in Rwanda.
Besides the fact that the problems are still rancid today, viewers love to sit back and find comfort that there was at least one good man in that time or turmoil, which still occurs on a violent and deadly basis.
I imagine those who typically watch the film find it sad, inspirational and patriotic on some level. Though the film does nothing but deliver a false "reality" and applied ideology of a region and its people.
The following is a
"A truly "investigative" journalist might hack through the propaganda of Hotel Rwanda to get to United Artists parent company Metro Goldwyn Meyer, whose directors, not surprisingly, given what the film does not tell you about the U.S.-sponsored invasion of Rwanda (19901994), include current United Technologies director and U.S. General (Ret.) Alexander Haig. Recall that "I'm in charge here" Al Haig served under a Hollywood actor named Ronald Reagan. Hotel Rwanda took off from the now celebrated but wholly mythologized book We Regret To Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed by Philip Gourevitch, the New Yorker's premier Africanist, and whose brother-in-law, Jamie Rubin, was Madeleine Albright's leading man. The Nation runs the standard nonsense on Rwanda, usually by Victoria Britain. Another pro-military interventionist on Darfur, Samantha Power could surely satisfy The Nation, given her selective and patriotic journalism on Rwanda and the Balkans, for which she won a Pulitzer." (1)
As one would only view the "Wizard of Oz" as entertainment, they should also view "Hotel Rwanda" as a failed vehicle for relaying truth to an already censored and horribly misinformed nation that we are in the United States.
(1) "State Terror in Ethiopia: Another Secret War for Oil?" Author: Keith Harmon Snow Faculty Evaluator: Tom Lough, Ph.D. Student Researcher: Thedoria Grayson