Can not sleep and so see Hotel Rwanda instead! That is a bad decision, since I can not lying down after that movie. The post-producition documentary called Message for Peace, in which the director, screenwriter and the realworld Paul reconstructed their experience in making that movie. The unforgetable moment is about when the Western gave up the land and the humanity starts to conquer the fear in ordinary people.
The film is a story of "Ten years ago some of the worst atrocities in the history of mankind took place in the country of Rwanda--and in an era of high-speed communication and round the clock news, the events went almost unnoticed by the rest of the world. In only three months, one million people were brutally murdered. In the face of these unspeakable actions, inspired by his love for his family, an ordinary man summons extraordinary courage to save the lives of over a thousand helpless refugees, by granting them shelter in the hotel he manages."
This morning I wake up and listen to NPR and it reports recent conflict in Congo and other Africa regions. I remember one conversation in the film. The British reporter told Paul that even if the western world see the video clips of the masacar, "people will say, God this is terrible, and then go for their dinner". That is exactly what happend in 1994 and what is happening today. The Hotel Rwanda is a miracle and people saved are most social elite from minority groups. They know how to use diplomatic power to save themselves in the mass and they are the only few who survived. In the end of the interview with Paul, he summarized why the western and the UN did not intervene in 1992. He said America and other western countries were afraid to repeat their failure in Somalia shortly before 1994. Also Rwanda is a small country without resources, the only thing they produce are "coffee and tea".
2006年3月27日星期一
Hotel Rwanda
Can not sleep and so see Hotel Rwanda instead! That is a bad decision, since I can not lying down after that movie. The post-producition documentary called Message for Peace, in which the director, screenwriter and the realworld Paul reconstructed their experience in making that movie. The unforgetable moment is about when the Western gave up the land and the humanity starts to conquer the fear in ordinary people.
The film is a story of "Ten years ago some of the worst atrocities in the history of mankind took place in the country of Rwanda--and in an era of high-speed communication and round the clock news, the events went almost unnoticed by the rest of the world. In only three months, one million people were brutally murdered. In the face of these unspeakable actions, inspired by his love for his family, an ordinary man summons extraordinary courage to save the lives of over a thousand helpless refugees, by granting them shelter in the hotel he manages."
This morning I wake up and listen to NPR and it reports recent conflict in Congo and other Africa regions. I remember one conversation in the film. The British reporter told Paul that even if the western world see the video clips of the masacar, "people will say, God this is terrible, and then go for their dinner". That is exactly what happend in 1994 and what is happening today. The Hotel Rwanda is a miracle and people saved are most social elite from minority groups. They know how to use diplomatic power to save themselves in the mass and they are the only few who survived. In the end of the interview with Paul, he summarized why the western and the UN did not intervene in 1992. He said America and other western countries were afraid to repeat their failure in Somalia shortly before 1994. Also Rwanda is a small country without resources, the only thing they produce are "coffee and tea".
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