SwiftVets.com

[GenrXr]

By far this is the best movie of the year. And Don Cheadle deserves the Oscar for best actor as well as the woman who plays his wife. Nick Nolte deserves best supporting actor based on his scene where he brings Cheadle into a room and calls him dirt for being black and of no worth to the western countries. This was a very powerful scene. They didn’t mention the fact most of the Hutus are Muslim versus the predominance of Christianity among the Tutsis, although they did point out there were Hutu refugees as well as Tutsi at the hotel. These would be Christian Hutus. If you watch the movie look for the crosses the Tutsis wear on their necks as opposed to the Hutus who do not wear them. I suppose they wanted to keep religion out of the focus which is ok with me in the end. The story was well told and beyond satisfactory for me. It focused on genocide and the west responsibility to stop it. The movie as so well said in one scene shames us into action. We should feel ashamed for not coming to their defense.

Best part of the movie for me was the first time the Hutus came to the Hotel to kill everyone Cheadle frantically calls his main office in Belgium to say his goodbyes and thank them for his employment. The President of his company gets hold of the president of France office to intervene. Within minutes of speaking to France the Hutus leave the Hotel. We discover in this scene the French are the ones supplying the Hutus with their weapons.

Ahh, those loving peaceful French always seem to show up on the wrong side of good and evil.

Wait till we discover their involvement with aiding the Muslims and their slaughter of the million plus Christians in Sudan.

I doubt the Academy will barely recognize this great film. But, please go watch it. It is truly great filmmaking at it's best.


Additional edit: I would like to add one more thing. The film is able to convey the brutality and horror of what happened in Rwanda without actually making us witness to it. The filmakers through sheer brilliance of filmaking are able to show the truly evil horror of what took place without making us the viewer suffer the trauma of witnessing the absolute magnitude of evil which was comitted. We see the Tutsi women caged in chicken wire in one scene and their cries of desperation and we the viewer know what has happened to them and what will happen to them. The filmakers took the route of leaving that to our imagination and I thank them for it. One of the common practices of Muslim radicals is to take the women and rape them for weeks until they are supplanted by new fresh women. They then cut off their ears, noses and lips and let them go. The thinking behind this evil act is noone will ever produce children with the women again because of their being raped and disfigurement as well as it serving as a call sign of who pissed where. I am glad the film makers left these images out of the picture. I felt compelled to say what happened though to those women who were caged in that scene.
_________________
"An activist is the person who cleans up the water, not the one claiming its dirty."
"All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to stand by and do nothing." Edmund Burke (1729-1797), Founder of Conservative Philosophy

[blue9t3]

I want to see that flick so I dont want to know too much----but, were there any scenes of Kofi Annon skiing in Jackson Hole while trying to decide what he should do about the massacre?
_________________
MOPAR-BUYER

[GenrXr]

[blue9t3]

I know, Its like telling a cop "hey there's a dead body overthere" and he says " Ill check it out when I get time"
Or saying "hey theres a murder happening overthere" and he says "Ill check it out when I get time"
Whats Kofi's job? watching his kids a**? I hope he ends up procecuted some how. This whole thing stinks to the high heavens!
_________________
MOPAR-BUYER