Awareness heightened

Rating: 10/10 (28 May 2005)

This movie was excellent. My AP world history teacher showed it my class to teach us about the events that happened in the Rwandan Genocide. After watching this movie, all 95 students in her three AP classes were talking about it. Many cried and others teared, but this was not unusual. The movie's intensity definitely proved to be powerful when it sent dozens of high schoolers in to tears. Many scenes made even the boys in the class look away. This movie was an excellent movie in that it really made its viewers more aware of the genocide in areas far away from where we live. Of course, a more contemporary problem is in Darfur. The starvation, raping and killings that occur there are very similar to the atrocities in Rwanda. So by watching Hotel Rwanda, it has definitely made more people feel more involved in the problems not concerning themselves. The anger that the viewer sometimes feels during the movie helps them now to take action in a problem that they can fix. So instead of mourning or feeling sympathetic towards the Rwandans for something that happened almost a decade ago, people can do something about the problem in Darfur NOW! Overall, this movie achieved its purpose, which was to inform people about despite the atrocities that occurs in areas far away from where we are, our intervention can still help them. I loved this movie. I didn't cry, but I would have if i was watching this at home.