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I got this movie on DVD because I heard that it was good. It was. But it was also very, VERY sad! The movie is about a fairly high class hotel manager in Africa who lives a good life with his wife and children, and who deals with many people both black and white. Then (I haven’t learned this in school yet, so it’s only what I know) what sounds like the “tootsies” kill the leader of the country and try to kill all the other type of people. Anyway, everyone comes running for refuge in his hotel; Hotel Rwanda. The manager has to deal with many problems: first, the tootsie rebel guys, the united nations who come in but ONLY take the white people away and other sad things. The manager (forgot name) has to deal with his family and leaving them and choosing and so many other sad choices.

Some parts of this movie are pretty gruesome (hence the PG-13 rating) like the main character and his friend riding a car through super-dense fog and all of the sudden it gets really bumpy. Guess what they’re riding over? Bodies. Thousands of dead bodies stretching down the road for miles. The movie is heartbreaking and horrible, and reminds me of Iraq. Just the current-event type of violence of small rebel groups and so much sadness.

The acting is great, it’s edited great, and the soundtrack is beautiful. For one part when the good guys are unknowingly riding into and ambush the music is loud beating drums, and for the very end when the main character and his wife adopt more kids (orphans) right before the credits is a beautiful song sung by young 3 or 4 year olds in an African language. And boy does it get stuck in your head.

8/10