"Hotel Rwanda" is obviously a more brutal genocide and a greater salvation than "Schindler's List". Last year, there was a commercial film in China called "The Children of Yellowstone", which was also used as an analogy to "Schindler's List". In contrast, "Hotel Rwanda" would make "The Children of Yellowstone" embarrassed, which is simply "rude".
Of course, life is life, and the magnitude and severity of it only exacerbates sin and grief. The grief of the world war is of course the deepest, and there is a clear distinction between justice and evil - Eisenhower ordered the US military to land from Normandy to destroy Hitler, the public enemy of mankind; The Soviet Red Army, aircraft and tanks were sent to the Western Front to fight the German army to the death. Although the Chinese army was still weak at the time, it was also the victor at the end of the war and stood on the side of "justice".
But Africa is chaotic, blacks are crowded into the corner; even at war, the vastness of Africa is only in melee - in the hot desert, they provide battlefield burials, and provide employment that does not belong to any powerful group soldiers; they were historically divided, one for Portugal, one for France, one for Spain, one for England; in the dark forests, in the grasslands and deserts where murderers lurked, they fought, racially murdered, as a group of black Africans Go slaughter another group of black Africans!
In the prosperous and rapid development of the 1980s and 1990s, they were lucky enough to be thrown into refugee camps with the scorching sun above their heads, with dark red blood flowing on their black skin. They sent diamonds and slaves to Western powers, most of the NBA to the United States, and diamonds to France... In the south of ancient and civilized Egypt, they sent news about war and poverty to the world, genocide and Africa. The dance of gorillas is given to the golden Africa in the movie.
In wealthy South Africa, in dark Rwanda, in chaotic Sierra Leone... Africa's suffering is as evasive and dazzling as a black skin.
It is the same as the movie "Blood Diamond" tells that Africans wash diamonds with blood for Westerners; and the children of Sierra Leone told in the novel "The Long Road" gradually become accustomed to seeing their relatives being slaughtered by rebels, and later become Like the story of the murderer; like Schindler, a businessman with a factory who spent money to buy Jews one by one from the Germans - "Hotel Rwanda" tells such a story:
On April 6, 1994, the President of Rwanda, Hutu The plane of the ethnic Habyarimana was shot down by a missile over Kigali, killing all the people on board. The incident became the trigger for a bloody revenge by the Rwandan Hutu against the "cockroach" Tutsi by "cutting down tall trees".
The Hutu nationality Paul Lusserbergina was the manager of a Belgian-owned four-star foreign-related hotel, the Miller-Collins Hotel. With this convenience, the foreign-related hotel became a "Schindler's factory". He was originally a bourgeois who just wanted to keep his wife and children safe, someone who could approach the upper classes and Western powers. At the beginning of the civil strife, out of desperation, he brought a group of "cockroaches" to the Corinth Hotel, bought them from the Hutu army at a gun point of ten thousand francs, and took refuge in the hotel. But things are far from over - the
civil strife has become more and more difficult to control, and the Hutu people have taken up long knives and robberies under the instigation of the radio, and massacred the Tutsi people in groups and river banks and villages, to every Tutsi people. A fire was set in his house...
more than a million people died in this brutal Rwandan genocide.
However, most of the Tutsi in the Corinth Hotel survived, and finally came to the refugee camp in the rear under the escort of the United Nations and the cover of "rebels". According to records, the hotel experience Paul-Luce Sebergina used his Hutu identity and background in foreign-related hotels to protect 1,268 local residents, including his Tutsi wife and children, who took refuge in the hotel.
Paul has gradually become a "national hero" who saves the suffering and has a righteousness from a Hutu who has some connections and assets that could have safely protected himself from the war.
And how can Africa, which is far away, impoverished, hungry and chaotic, get rid of backwardness and bullying because of the quelling of the war and the preservation of the lives of these 1,268 people, so as to obtain the same propaganda as the superior Westerners and the stronger Chinese people. The right to democracy and freedom?
For the film itself, if needed, point to some of the themes:
Africa, black people, war, civil war, race, genocide, dehumanization, developed countries, Westerners, UN peacekeepers, media, warlords, bribery, corruption, property Class, salvation, self-salvation, life, life and death, children, commoners, conscience, broadsword, gun, justice, evil, politics, country, tribe, eternal life, eternal death, eternal interests and struggles...
Yan Qingyuan
2008.11.10 .
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