Sometimes a story alone makes a movie

Rating: 10/10 (31 January 2006)

There are movies that even though their quality as a movie may not be more than average, the story makes it better. In this case, there is no greater story. The madness and the kindness of human kind. What is anything that may happen compared to this. If this was not a true story, no one would believe it.
It makes me wonder what would I have done in a similar situation. Would I have run with the other westerners or would I have stayed and died to protect my Rwandan friends? I would like to believe that I would have stood against hatred and killing.
The unshown tragedy is that the whole division between Tutsi and Hutu is artificial. It was Belgians who originally divided the Rwandans to the upper and lower class to mirror the society they were used to in their own country. Then they increased the division by educating only the upper class that they called Tutsi.
The whole story is so unreal that it could be written by Orwell. But it wasn't. This really happened and people really are like this. Horrid.