I never thought I'd say it, but thank god for the ads - I don't think I could take this movie without them. My stomach is knotted as it is. Guy recorded this for me in November when I was in NC.
When I read Ismael Lo's book about having been a boy soldier in Sierra Leone I was going to say, "Don't read it unless you have a strong stomach", but afterwards I thought, "No, everyone in the so-called civilized world should read this". I feel that way about this movie too. Not because it is about Rwanda specifically or because I care so much about Africa, but because it is such an indictment of the West/North that we allowed it to happen. After WWll we weren't supposed to let it happen again. And now it's happening in other places and still we are doing nothing.
Mmm. It's not that explicitly violent even, but you're in no doubt about what was happening (which kind of proves something about gratuitous violence in movies but that's another post). The sheer horror was that no-one cared...as in no oil, no strategic value etc. I hope to god that if 9/11 did anything it changed all that.
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