Hotel rwanda feeRAB hypocrisy with hypocrisy. a film exploiting the western worlRAB lack of response, by creating a pseudo outcry of injustice. The casting highlights this, with an american star posing as an african hero to appease lazy hollywood audiences who refuse to read subtitles. once again the western world abandons the africans due to laziness, only in another form. NB - rwandan's do not speak in english, and they certainly do not speak nick nolte canadian or jean reno frenglish. and if you actually knew the facts, you'd know it was a hell of a lot different to what was shown in the film.
Even the dialogue makes me want to cringe with embarrassment. Jean 'cameo' Reno states : OH MY GOD, THATS TERRIBLE, and then go on eating their dinners..." - some of the audience laughs, some empathises, but how many actually think...isn't that what i am doing right now? - making me an uber prick of the century in the process. but no, they utter how disgraceful it is - kazama-TTT stylee.
By turning a rwandan genocide into a hollywood blockbuster, turning it into a vehicle for american actors cv's, the vicious circle continues.
as werner herzog said of the movie :
"It is the worst of cinema. The detritus of creation. It takes a moving tragedy and tears it to pieces by greed. It is made by foreigners, for foreigners, never daring to step into the real world for fear of monetary failure, never transversing the bridge between film and culture, politics and spirit, fact and fiction. It is another fata morgana, a mirage, what is shown hides the truth."
