This afternoon I went to see "Hotel Rwanda".
I cried during the whole thing. This may have been the most difficult movie for me to sit through. And there were times I wanted to get out of my seat. I made myself watch it. Not to torture myself, but because this is part of life. I am fortunate it is not part of MY life at this moment, but it is a piece of the human experience on this planet and I will not look away.
Genocide is never comfortable or pretty or tolerable. In whatever form it takes, genocide is unbearable and ugly and inhumane. But this is an important movie and the main character of the movie, Paul Rusesabagina, is a hero. Don't miss this movie.
About Me
- katrina
- Originally from Vermont, I now live in North Carolina. My work can be found in recent issues of REAL: Regarding Arts and Letters, The Jabberwock Review, The Emerson Review, Storyglossia, The MacGuffin, Confrontation, Passages North, SmokeLong Quarterly, elimae, wigleaf, and Pank, among others, and forthcoming from Gargoyle #57 and REAL: Regarding Arts and Letters. One of my stories has been translated into Farsi by Asadollah Amraee, and many others by Jalil Jafari, two of which have been published in the Iranian journal, Golestaneh Magazine. For two years I worked as an assistant editor for Narrative Magazine. Currently, I serve as a mentor for Dzanc's Creative Writing Sessions. I'm working on two novels and a short story collection. In May, I was awarded the Carol Houck Smith Contributor Scholarship for the 2011 Bread Loaf Writers' Conference.
2 comments:
I think it's one of those you have to see and go through. it's not sentimental in any way is it? bare and honest is how I imagine it
It's definitely unflinchingly honest. I wouldn't say it is sentimental, no, although it's not all horrific--there's the main character's relationship with his wife--but that's not the focus, it's a side dish.
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