Reflection on "Hotel Rwanda"

Q: Post a reflection on "Hotel Rwanda," talk about the movie's intention to impact you and its actual effects.

It was my first time watching the movie Hotel Rwanda and this movie definitely informed me about a historical genocide happenend in 1994 in Rwanda. I never knew that there was a severe genocide at the time I was young and that it was only 14 years ago. It was a strange new feeling to me that this historical mass casualty and many people’s death was caused by political conflict between people had happenened when I was already known; it just seemed that it was an big event that could have happened in era that I was not even born yet. I think it was strange because I have never gone through or thought about going through an atmosphere that when everyone I knew are in danger by the threatening powerful group of people. It was just amazing that the children who were featured in the movie are about the same age as I am right now and they were actually in that event. I wonder that if I could have gone through the time like that when no one is sure when and how they are going to live or die.
I think this is what this movie affected me after I watched it, and I think it was the movie producers’ intention in creating this movie. They informed people about the Rwandan Genocide that happened few years ago: what happenend and other unknown events were in that period of time. It impacts people to recognize the casualties and social crisis that happened in a small country in Africa. However, even more than that, I think that this movie was a big influence to me and hopefully to other people about the concerns and interest the other countries give to Rwanda. IN the movie, even though the UN was there in Rwanda to stop the fight, many of the UN’s action disappointed me. I didn’t know that one of the most influencial organization created for every country’s peace would have made some mistakes, and this movie showed me how the reality was at that time. I think it was one of the producers’ intentions to create this movie and inform the people how Rwandan citizens had to stand against the enemy, without much help of other countries’ help, to survive this cruel mass murdering. This movie was an effective influence to the viewers on telling them how the situation of the Rwandans were like; it surely worked on me.