Movie Review: Hotel Rwanda

If ever in our lives had we seen a sight more horrific than ever, Hotel Rwanda presents scenes which make it too thr top of that list and that too with a good enough margin. I could have said this just to make this book review sound more interesting but I'd rather stick to facts here and the biggest fact here is that these scenes , a few years ago , were nothing but a reality in Tanzania. The movie depicts a region caught in the ever persisting army- rebel turmoil, engrossing in itself lives of more than five hundred thousand innocent civilians. If there has to be a depiction of a Universal Saviour , it could not have been better metaphorised by Paul XYZ, the manager of the Belgian Hotel which sheltered 1500 natives when the UN had left them nothing but a brutal, incinerating merciless death, a kind of death which haunts the dead soul even after death, a death more tragic any genocide that has ever occured and if I had to restrict my words I would call it the death of humanity.

Hotel Rwanda can be wrongly perceived as a war time tragedy , an appeal to the ostensibly rich western world that it had more responsibility that it even pretends to exercise, which it is not. This movie is a tale of hope, a story of how one determined man takes the responsibility and saves a thousand lives with the zeal in his heart to save a lot more. It is often seen that the character , of the savior that is , is often shown to be the one most heroic, intelligent , wise , strong and wat not, Hotel Rwanda , on the other hand personifies him to be entirely different, he is as human as one can be , he isn't equipped with the most intelligent foresight, neither is he the richest man in Rwanda, what he is perhaps is a man of Conscience. It is often intriguing to human mind how a man so ordinary can do something so extraordinary and its a true story by the way. The scenes have been constructed wiht utmost simplicity trying to keep it less glamoiurised and more objective. This review would be incomplete unitil I talk about a scene where Paul , after having witnessed the sight of a genocide, is in an exacerbated state of mind, trying to forget all that he's seen an hour ago, he's changing his blooded clothes and realises that he has goofed up the tie, it expells him into this subtle laugh , at this moment the viewer is fooled to believe that the man has finally managed to leave behind the horrific sight and come to terms withe the current situation but the moment of laughter had not even been broken when reminisces what he had seen, and he lies there tearing of his clothes, shattered till his inner spirit, crying and perhaps trying to hide from others his helplessness,it is then one realises how simple he is, how ordinary for that matter. If there was one thing that I had to embibe from this movie , then it would be the fact that people , who are extraordinary are made extraordinary not by inherent extraordinary skill but extraordinary circumstances and their ability to cope up with them.

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