HOTEL RWANDA

This is without a doubt one of those movies that does an amazing job of story telling. I can only imagine how hard it was for the director, producers and writers to decide what portion of the story to tell and what to leave out.

Hotel Rwanda may have been better served as a documentary about the 1994 geocide that killed almost a million people but for its two-hour time frame, it is well told. It really shows the beautiful nature of the human soul but also the dark and horrid side that can sometimes boil over within each of us. If you really stop and think upon it, this movie makes you reflect upon a wide variety of things.

There are so many different and unique groups of people out there. Like many people living in the west, it was hard for me to comprehend the hatred for two different groups of people that seemingly were the same.

Who would have thought that a persons physical features would have such a barring on their lifestyle? I would guess the closest thing that American has experienced to the Rwanda genocide was the Civil War in the 1860's or the segregation of the 1950's and 60's. Just the thought of living and dying based on how a person looks is one sad thought.

What Don Cheadle's character, Paul Rusesabagina, does to save 1,000's of refugess amid the pressures of a very hostile group militia has to be one of the more selfless acts ever presented on a movie screen. It was quite inspiring to watch a man who really has nothing to gain in saving the refugees lay it all on the line to help other people.

This is a definate must see movie.