Saturday, May 2, 2009

Hotel Rwanda

Hotel is one of the most meaniful movie I have ever seen in my short 13-year life. It shows just how stupid some people can be. Just basically abandoning a group of people in a country just because of their color. When I was watching it, I couldn't believe that the genocide had really happened. When I saw the dead bodies, I just wondered, "How could have they pulled the trigger?" and every single time I heard the word 'cockroach' I just wanted to go and slap the dude. I mean, you can't really tell the difference between what they called a Hutu and a Tutsi. Just like that one person in the beginning of the movie said, about how the two girls could be twins and yet, they have two different 'labels'. When I saw the part when the people were running and the soldiers were killing them, I just thought, "What if that was my family running and suddenly my parents got shot. What would I do?" That thought made me almost want to cry. Right now, I am so glad that racism is not as bad as it was 10~20 years ago.

This movie is overall REALLY awesome. I feel that EVERYONE should go watch it, if you haven't already. I hope that this will affect you just a little and make you want to do something about this. Anyone that is reading this should go to www.invisiblechildren.com . That website was made for the war that is going on in Africa right now. How the soldiers would kidnapp the young children during the middle of the night and train them to become soldiers. I really hope this would stop and if you watched the video on the website, you would see the problem.

2 comments:

  1. This is wonderful sharing, Daniel. Indeed, when people's minds are possessed with evil, their senseless brutality could be quite unfathomable. And thanks for the link on "invisible children" ... We could help those unfortunate children by at least praying for them ...

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  2. Very meaningful... you should get your blog published... there's some great stuff on it.. beautiful :p

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