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[frameofmind6]

I just saw the movie Hotel Rwanda -- excellent, excellent film. Seriously, I think it should have gotten more credit at the Oscars than it did. I mean, the events taking place are so horrific, and yet they all happened not that long ago -- only about ten years. Plus the whole thing came off as really impactful and emotional, yet very realistic (which probably added just that much more to the impact of it). It wasn't like one of those big Hollywood epics where the hero runs twelve miles in six seconds, all the while being chased by evil men with guns who are hell bent on killing him and him alone. If anything, the frightening thing was how undefinable everyone was. The only real villains were hate and apathy (hate on the parts of the Hutu and Tutsi clans, apathy on the part of the West).

I'm not particularly eloquent tonight -- that whole paragraph is sort of a jumble of half-thoughts. What can I say? It's late, and I'm beat...

Nighty night...

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[silver-p.livejournal.com]

I've been wanting to see that film for ages now. Don Cheadle is brilliant, isn't he? And I especially adore Sophie Okonedo, who is in one of my new favourite films, Dirty Pretty Things. It's another must-watch, about how the system in Western countries totally fucks immigrants and refugees. Hits a little close to home, as a first generation daughter/neice/grandchild/cousin of immigrants, but definitely amazing. With a surprisingly uplifting ending.

But yes, apathy of the West. Millions of people were murdered en masse, while we were too busy fixating on the O.J. Simpson trial.

[frameofmind6.livejournal.com]

Yes Don Cheadle was fantastic! He was so real, you know? Despite the fact that he was doing very heroic things, he never came off as being a completely self-sacrificing (and thereby unbelievable) martyr. You could always see that he was human, and his first priority was naturally to save his family -- that kind of thing often gets glossed over in Hollywood, in favor of making the hero into a near-god. I suppose it helped that they had the real guy there as an advisor and such.

And yes, I have to admit, as a prime example of the typical ignorant American, the line where the photographer guy said something like "I think they'll look at the TV and say 'Oh my god, that's horrible,' and then they'll go on eating their dinners," struck a huge chord with me. Granted, I was about six or seven when this all happened, but yes, I remember watching a lot of the Simpson trial, and I never even heard about this. Even now I know that that's exactly what I would do. Hell, I don't really even know what's going on with the war that we started, other than the fact that I'm opposed to it.

The world kinda sucks, doesn't it?