But this film has a new currency with the rising problems in
Darfur.

Don Cheadle plays a hotel manager during the Ruwandan genocide.

It's an important film to see. And just about everyone can see
it. You see it has a PG13 rating. Don't get me wrong. I
think this is a positive thing. Remember: Fahrenheit 911
had a restricted rating above this so that young people would
not see the aftermath of war.

I think that in a picture like this, the actorsd take a lot of
chances for their art. The bad guys in this show are really bad.
But there's alos Jean Reno ("The Professional", "The Visitors")
as the hotel owner who lives in Paris.

The thing that struck me about Hotel Ruwanda was the use of
radio by the ... Hutus... I think... the ones that were bringing
the violence. The message of "don't trust your neighbors"
"watch the people next door" that sort of thing was particularly
effective. I wondered how far we are from that in USA.

The picture also reveals that the difference between the factions
was microscopic: physical features were _measured_ to define
which was which. top bottom, left-right, persecutor or persecuted.

And it goes on today.

But Hotel Ruwanda is the first telling of that time... the only
telling in a dramatic form in these 10 and more years. It's
important to make it a part of our collective memory. After all,
you won't hear about such things on the news; not in any
meaningful way.

The movie gives the impression that the war was a cultural event pitting Hutu's and Tutsi's. The truth seems much more related to the food shortages and people reaching for any means of survival.

Nothing we can do, they are so corrupt that aid never reaches the people; not to mention the self-serving international aid groups.
Comparisons between us and them regarding the use of propoganda; amazing how the level of education has no bearing on what you can be coerced to believe.

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