Hotel Rwanda

Rating: 8/10 (13 October 2016)

Hotel Rwanda was a very inspirational movie. I knew little about the Rwandan Genocide, so this opened my eyes to the horrors did ensued during the 1990's. It was heartbreaking to see how much the UN wanted to help, but they could not do anything. Paul was an amazing character, who did everything he could to help as many people as he could. He would bribe people, risking his life in the process, and the fact that he held over 1000 refugees in his hotel was amazing. It pained me to see the army treat Paul and his people like dirt, not even attempting to help with the thousands upon thousands of Hutu murders. The armies came, but they arrived to tell the people that they could not help. Most of the Tutsis did nothing to deserve this hate, but they still received the full force of the genocide. On the other hand, some Hutus also did nothing to be involved in the genocide, but they were still blamed for the murders of the Tutsis. It was very good to see that the Hutu General was sent to a war crimes prison after the genocide, because what he did was horrible. No group of people should be mercilessly wiped out, no matter what happened in the past.