Tuesday, February 6, 2007

Hotel Rwanda

Directed by Terry George, Hotel Rwanda is educational and inspiring. The film was gruesomely nasty and disgusting but well choreographed. One of the scenes was when Paul went to get some food for the hotel company and on his way back to the hotel he went by the river road and passed a road of dead bodies.
In some scenes the camera view was a little bad. You couldn't see the expression of the characters. Also the pacing of some scenes was terrible, you can actually tell the difference of the green screen and what was real.
At first I didn't get the concept of the movie because they kept talking about Hutu and the Tutsi and about how evil both of them are. But the sequence and order shows what was actually going on.
Sounding and the language was okay but I think this film would have worked better in French/Rwandan instead of English/Rwandan. That way you can feel by the sounds of their pain and/or anger. Just as in Pan's Labyrinth which was in Spanish or even Passion of the Christ in Hebrew.
The lighting from the film was great. Costumes was not bad because they still dressed in their African clothing and dressed in modern clothes. It showed the coming of Africa.

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