Hotel Rwanda Movie Analysis

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Jack daglish was a cameraman who said “I think if people see this footage they'll say, "oh my God that's horrible," and then go on eating their dinners.” I don’t think he’s wrong. People such as Bill Clinton knew what was to happen and chose to stay out of it.They also went through many efforts to hide the genocide from public eye. Who was this camera man talking to, Paul Rusesabagina The manager of hotel Rwanda. A place that brought refuge to over 1000 tutsi people. Hotel Rwanda otherwise known as Hotel des mille collines and it’s true events in 1994 were made into a movie that was released september 11 2004.

This movie is a historical drama film which was originally a screenplay written by George and Keir Pearson, that later got adapted into the movie we know as Hotel Rwanda. In it you follow a man (Paul) and his family through the roughest time in their lives and and how Paul deals with the predicaments he is put in. You get find out what exactly happened during the rwandan genocide, and you also see how many people were able to survive it, due to the efforts of Paul Rusesabagina.

Ethnic tension in rwanda was not a new thing, even though the hutus and the tutsis are very similar. They lived in the same places, followed the same traditions and also spoke the same
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Many of Paul and Tatiana’s friends and family were also tutsi. So Paul felt it was his responsibility to try to protect them as well as he could. In the movie Tatiana calls Paul "a good man" he could not and would not let people be slaughtered inhumanely with machetes or at all for that matter. If he could protect people he would do anything he could to at least try. That is why he is a good man. He risked his own life over and over to save even those he did not know. He was a hero and is continued to be seen as