Movie: Hotel Rwanda

Hey guys, I know there hasn't been a post for awhile so here goes. I just finished watching this movie (around 11:15). It was extremely good; I haven't watched a movie for a long time that had me so interested. The setting is in Rwanda (obviously), during a civil war in 1994 in which genocide on a horrible scale was committed by some members of a racial group called the Hutus, against members of a minority race in Rwanda called the Tutsis. The movie follows the story of the ordeals of a hotel manager named Paul Rusesabagina (a compassionate Hutu), who was caught up in the middle of all this. His hotel became a refuge of last resort for Tutsis and Hutus alike, who were escaping from the Interhamwe (the armed Hutu militia who comitted much of the genocide against the Tutsis). I give this movie 5 stars, and hopefully you will get to watch it when or if you have time. Besides it being a riveting movie, this is one movie that will make you learn so much about a different culture, and think about some pretty controversial issues and events in history. Too bad we didn't pick this movie for the movie night party at my house. Personally I think we would have been able to handle it, and it is good enough that we can look past the violence and blood. Oh well...
posted by Justin