I'm watching the most disturbing movie I have ever seen

[housewolf]

in my entire life.

What is it?

Hotel Rawanda

Based on real people and actual events that happened during that most evil of times.

I'm sickened, and even worse, recognize that what's shown has been pretty-ed up for the big sceen

I don't know how I can go to sleep after this.

'Course there's another side to the story - and that's the incredible humanity, generosity and bravery of the man who ran the hotel.

Unbelievable


Have you seen it? What did you think of it?

[jp11]

1. I saw 'Sometimes in April' before I saw that one so I was a bit deadened to it.

Just knowing what happened and how the world failed to act was/is sickening, the failure of the UN was more apparent iirc in Hotel Rwanda.

[Judi Lynn]

8. That film was intense, so well done, and necessary. I saw it too. Traumatic for the viewer,

if the viewer is in any way human, but it's so important people have seen it, see it now, and will see it.

[midnight]

2. I'm not brave enough to watch but will K&R to keep this info. going.

[Dr Morbius]

3. I watched it and was impressed.

It's an excellent movie about a depressing subject.

[Chulanowa]

4. I've never seen it

Or Sometimes in April.

However, I offer this:
http://www.vbs.tv/watch/the-vice-guide-to-travel/the-vice-guide-to-liberia

It's not bloody. It's not Gory. In fact the producers try to keep it upbeat and "fun" but frankly it doesn't work. it's a good look at Liberia, though, and in many respects is exceedingly terrifying.

[Daphne08]

5. I thought about watching it early this morning

because I can't sleep.

Don't think I will now.

[ejpoeta]

6. that's a tough movie to watch. even tougher knowing it really happened.

amazing how cruel people can be to each other.

[Judi Lynn]

7. It will stay with you, believe me. It's a film which the world needed to see. n/t

[dipsydoodle]

9. I've avoided watching it

Humanity, or should I say its complete absense of on occasions, pisses me off enough as it is.

[Dorian Gray]

10. Thought Hotel Rwanda

was a great movie, but it is sad and painful to watch.

As for most disturbing movie ever, I have to say (despite lack of genocide) Spider starring Miranda Richardson and Ralph Fiennes.

[11 Bravo]

11. Paul Rusesabagina spoke at the school I taught at several years ago.

I got to meet him and talk with him briefly. What a remarkable man!

[DrDan]

12. only bits of it - could not watch the whole movie

[zazen]

13. I'm haunted by the scene when their car gets stuck on what sound like rocks

and then they get out and realize what they're driving on.

To think genocides are still going in Congo and the Sudan. . . shuts my mind down.

[Statistical]

14. It isn't a good movie it is a GREAT movie.

Anyone who hasn't seen it must see it.

The fact that it is based on reality makes it far more disturbing than anything Hollywood could dream up.

[proud2BlibKansan]

15. Made me think of our own hate radio

Rush and Glenn and all the other hate mongers.

Maybe one day this country will wake up. Before it's too late. Maybe.

[Joanne98]

20. Bingo

[Odin2005]

16. I thought it was a great movie. Made me think of RW hate radio here.

[AnotherDreamWeaver]

17. Watched it some years back

Sure shows how ruthless some folks can become, and heroic others respond.

[bik0]

18. American role

Prior to the war, the U.S. government had aligned itself with Tutsi interests, in turn raising Hutu concerns about potential U.S. support to the opposition. Paul Kagame, a Tutsi officer in exile in Uganda who had co-founded the Rwandese Patriotic Front (RPF) in 1986 and was in open conflict with the incumbent Rwandan government, was invited to receive military training at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, home of the Command and General Staff College. In October 1990, while Kagame was at Fort Leavenworth, the RPF started an invasion of Rwanda. Only two days into the invasion, his close friend and RPF co-founder Fred Rwigema was killed, upon which the U.S. arranged the return of Kagame to Uganda from where he became the military commander of the RPF.<53> An article in the Washington Post of August 16, 1997, authored by its Southern African bureau chief Lynne Duke, indicates that the connection continued as RPF elements received counterinsurgency and combat training from U.S. Special Forces.<54><55>

In January 1994 NSC member Richard Clark developed formal US peacekeeping doctrine, Presidential Decision Directive 25 (PDD-25).

There were no U.S. troops officially in Rwanda at the onset of the genocide. A National Security Archive report points out five ways in which decisions made by the U.S. government contributed to the slow U.S. and worldwide response to the genocide:
The U.S. lobbied the U.N. for a total withdrawal of U.N. (UNAMIR) forces in Rwanda in April 1994;
Secretary of State Warren Christopher did not authorize officials to use the term "genocide" until May 21, and even then, U.S. officials waited another three weeks before using the term in public;
Bureaucratic infighting slowed the U.S. response to the genocide in general;
The U.S. refused to jam extremist radio broadcasts inciting the killing, citing costs and concern with international law;
U.S. officials knew exactly who was leading the genocide, and actually spoke with those leaders to urge an end to the violence but did not follow up with concrete action.<56>

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rwandan_Genocide

[Bluenorthwest]

19. Cinema of the highest sort

Yes, very difficult to watch. As is life on this planet. I have nothing but praise for the film, the story they told, and the way they told it.