Posts Tagged ‘movies’
Hotel Rwanda
I can only say this: what a movie! It has got superb acting, class direction, a sensitive theme and above all, for the viewer, gripping intensity. Wikipedia says that it is the “Schindler’s List” for Rwanda and I agree.
Only once or twice in a year, does one get to see such a class act and yesterday was the lucky day for me.
One statement by a character (who seemed like a steward at the hotel, named Dube) has really stuck with me, “How can somebody be so cruel?” Yesterday night after the movie, lying in the bed, I really thought hard, but was just unable to comprehend. Some people can be really cruel, greedy or dishonest. What motivates them to be so? I guess, that would be a huge psychological study and am sure there would be experts working on this, just as I write. But as a layman, my analysis would be that there is nothing special. Just as maybe, thinking about development of children motivates me or music motivates Johny Cash (?), killing Tutsi people must be motivating for the Hutu gang. It is a matter of convention that what I do or Johny Cash did is/was accepted in the society and what the Hutu gang did in 1994 is not.
Speaking of villainy, another character motivated solely by suffering of others, whom I really adore for his passion is:
