Movie Reflection: "Hotel Rewanda"

This is my second time to watch the movie, “Hotel Rwanda,” and I was on eighth grade when I first watched it. At that time, my English skill was even weaker, so that only the strong scenes were left in my memory, without understanding the story of it. And I most clearly remember that scene when Paul saw the road with hundreds of dead bodies on foggy dawn. I can not imagine how it would feel like, standing alive alone on the mountains of corpse in actuality. There will be something that we can not feel by just watching it as unrealistic issue going on far away.
Now that I understood what is going on in this movie and issue, there were many things I couldn’t found out back then. For example, one of the scene that most impacted me when I saw the movie second time was when Paul called everyone in the Hotel. He started to tell people, to call all others they knew, and say good-bye. He said that; tell people, that they will die. So that all people who heard about what is happening in Rwanda, and did noting, will be guilty and shameful greatly. I think this scene is so important and essential, containing whole message to the audience of this movie as well. People who committed this issue, and people, who knew about it but did nothing, are no difference. This scene is intentionally made to make those people shameful; that is what I felt in this scene.
I believe that this whole movie is a message itself. Movie is trying to tell us what happened in Rwanda; how many precious lives went off, failing to get help from any others. Crowd around Rwanda remained as spectators, thinking there is not much need to help smaller number of people in smaller weak country. And it is a tragedy that people were thinking an issue as a country unit, not seeing the importance of each individual life. Life can not be explained by a word ‘important.’ It can not be valued by money, or number of it. In my opinion, this movie is intentionally trying to make all of the audience, shameful, so that this kind of tragedy will not going to happen any more.

Hotel Rewanda

life

life
by: Jovenia G. Salazar

Life is like a wave

It goes down and up

It dances the low and high tide

Shows tears and laughters

Can be short or long journey

Without love,no one could see

The beginning and the end

The ugly and the beauty

The worst and the best

That this world has to give

The world without life

The life without world

Anything without its contrary

Something life can never have

Or else life wouldn't be a life

Life could be not or against the world

But one thing one shouldn't forget

That life is a gift from above

So whichever wave you would be

Hold on to God, He guides the way