Good Movie Review On The Hotel Rwanda Film Review Paper

1. Paul, manager of the hotel “Des Milles Collines” had a lot of tourists and later representatives of the Tutsi who were trying to protect themselves from the Hutu. Paul was generally oriented at protecting his family but his wife asked him to safe lives to their friends and relatives as well. This was the main that influenced the Paul’s decision at the beginning of the film.
2. Tutsi and Hutu are two ethnic groups gathered in one country, Hutu wanted to gain domination over the Tutsi people and kill them all. Ethnocentrism, judging another culture by the values and standards of one’s own culture and cultural relativism, principle that a human’s beliefs and actions should be understood by others can be applied here and identified as the main principles through prism of which the Hutu people acted; the film pictures them as not having respect for anyone, guiding only by their own beliefs. The Hutu culture in Rwanda is dominant over the Tutsi one, in the frameworks of influence of agents of socialization the Hutu have close connections and ties among their community; they united and made the organization aimed at eliminating the Tutsi group. The RTLM, radio of the Hutu adherents, appeared quite frequently in the film’s scenes; without any censorship or extenuation in its appeals it promulgated killing of the Tutsi (Twagilimana, 1998).
3. Having gained support from Belgium, the Interhamwe, the local police and seeing that the world organizations aimed at the peace protection were not going to counteract them, Hutu realized their might and potential to reach their goal, they decided not only to gain dominance because in such case they would have tried to persuade the Tutsi in their beliefs, but they wanted to start genocide, eradicate the opposing group of people; Hutu positioned themselves as a dominant culture in cultural variation (Hutu and Tutsi); there are also some elements of culture appearing in the film, for example, shirts in different colors with the yellow one prevailing were depicted as symbols of revolution, protests and a person’s belonging to a certain ethnic group, such signs can also be referred to as the cultural identity of Hutu; in the film, there is no signs of the Hutu having values though, they remained undefined, while Tutsi were defined as the people having family and morality at the first place, Hutu just were depicted in the scenes of ripe as a cruel community; this may be identified as the cultural variation.
4. The “Hutu Power” implies the intention to organize genocide, killing all Tutsi people and obtain rights and power only to themselves; Hutu, as it can be summarized from the film, have their own judging and do not admit or accept any other opinions or beliefs. The Hutu’s ideology is strengthened and supported by the agents of socialization which make a significant impact on their behavior; these are such as the abovementioned local radio calling on genocide and connections among themselves.
5. The Tutsi people are depicted as having family at the first place, the following scene from the movie will serve an indicative example: the Paul’s neighbor was being beaten on his eyes and his wife (Tatiana) asked him to do something about that, he answered that the only that mattered was the family, which showed Paul’s selfish mood at the beginning. But as the film progresses, the Paul’s sense of responsibility for the people he sheltered grows and for that time he felt he could even sacrifice his family and his life for saving the others based on the moral principles. This is a choice of every person what morality should go first in his life, Paul became more humane and he could not leave people for death, he felt he could do something about it, as the end of the film showed he was right in his decision as he saved lives of almost 800 people who sheltered in his hotel. It seems to me that Paul was guided by the unwritten rule of society that if we “tame” someone, we should respond for him later.
6. People of “black” race have always been diminished in society and limited in rights and opportunities, that’s why it may absolutely serve the reason for the UN to refuse intervention into the actions in Rwanda. This does not justify the Organization, the US or any other country which refused to intervene; this cannot be the motive for living people for death, all people are equal irrespective of the color of the skin, social status or any other signs, first of all we are all people and everyone has right to live or at least to be saved.
7. International community regarded citizens of Africa as “not having right for living”, it is similar to relationships between Tutsi and Hutu which formed in such a way due to social inequality. Africa is mostly a poor continent with the developing states and, the other states do not consider them to be useful for their own development, they decided to leave the situation for its natural development. The UN Colonel was a worker who implemented the orders of his Organization and he had no right to act at his own discretion that was reason he acted right (Binet, 2005).
8. The Rwandan Patriotic Front has undertaken the offensive in the response of genocide started by the Hutu people. From this it may be concluded that RPF stopped Hutu. The Front started defending people though they got to the capital quite late, when a lot of people were killed as a result of the Hutu regime.
9. The voice in standard radio is neutral and simply informing; RTLM, the local radio in Rwanda and radio of adherers of the Hutu not only opposed Tutsi, the voice was inciting, provoking and the words were uncontrolled. It broadcasted no world news or neutral events in the state; the radio was always talking about the need to start genocide. Through the whole film, a lot of people have listened to the RTLM and this indicated that it was the main psychological influence at the nation in starting, continuing genocide and dividing the country (Semujanga, 2003).
10. The aim of the film’s director was to show that in any situations we had to remain humane; some episodes like when Paul made favors for governing people, he didn’t receive the support from them when he needed it. This teaches that we have to count only for ourselves and when there will be a difficult situation you will be offered help by the people you have never expected. If I were Paul I would rather be deported from the country with my family, it would be hard to do; it would save life for me and for people that are close to me. Film is a distorted reality and be it all real, the success wouldn’t visit one so many times.

Works Cited

Binet, Laurence. The Violence of the New Rwandan Regime, 1994-1995. Geneva: Médecins Sans Frontières, 2005. Print.
Semujanga, Josias. Origins of Rwandan Genocide. Amherst, N.Y.: Humanity, 2003. Print.
Twagilimana, Aimable. Hutu and Tutsi. New York: Rosen Pub. Group, 1998. Print.