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Hotel (A Fish Named) Rhowanda

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Good movie, little difficult to follow due to the accents, but once you get straight who are the Hutu's and who are the "Tu-Tu tootsies, Goodbye" it was good. Very suspenseful, excellent acting in all the leads. Crowds, not so good. Lots of staring at the camera, lots of looking around for, direction, the food table, etc.
Interesting that on a Friday night, prime time, I saw it with my significant other, and there were about ten people in the theater, 4 of whom were black, 2 of whom were Asian. So whites had no interest in the matter now, or then.
Nick Nolte was great as always.

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No whites????? - Road Warrior 20:11:18 03/06/05 (0)
We saw it Sunday afternnon of the Oscars. Prolly 60 people in the theater, two blacks. I checked. Agree tho, very powerful, excellent acting, and a goddamn tragedy.
On its opening weekend, we saw Million Dollar Baby (also its opening weekend, at least in D town), what five months ago or so? And the line for Rwanda was very long, and I'd say then it was 50% black, for whatever thats worth.
far too liberal and anti-war - tunenut 15:53:15 03/06/05 (0)
Just kidding of course.
Very powerful movie. One I had to sort of force myself to see, let's face it genocide doesn't sound like a fun day at the movies.
But it is very well done on many levels and brings attention to this episode in history. And there is the moment when the radio announces it is time to cut down the tall trees, when they realize their normal world has ended, to me this kind of scene is the kind of horror that those dumb "horror" movies never reach.
Rwanda...touched on by tin down under. (nt - dennzio 09:48:42 03/05/05 (3)
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- Much earlier by moi: "low budget international guilt-trip" . . . - mr grits 10:03:20 03/05/05 (2)
  and Nolte was waaaay over the top for a UN commander--especially that maudlin speech about the world deserting Africans, ugh. True of not, it was regergatroy.
  - Was Schindler's List a guilt trip? Cabaret? Hiroshima? - Duilawyer 17:22:03 03/05/05 (1)
    You confuse the fact you feel guilty and did nothing, with the guilt being with the film makers. As if your guilt at having done nothing, is their fault.
    
    Group therapy. Go for it, you will like it.
    - I feel no guilt because of a film and its intended purpose . . . - mr grits 12:56:46 03/06/05 (0)
      I usually see throught it. SL fooled me, though. After buying the dvd I saw it was more smarmy than I had remembered.

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