footyhannah1
When I first watched 'Sometimes in April', I can honestly say it affected me more than any other film ever has. It traumatised me, I started to question human beings. I always, rather naively thought that all humans were intrinsically good and just did bad things from time to time, or even had an upbringing that made them the way they were. But this film taught me things aren't always so black and white. The Rwandan Genocide happened for no reason. Hundreds of thousands of people were ruthlessly murdered, for nothing. The film itself seemed to portray the idea that all this killing simply happened to satisfy a blood lust, nothing else. I can say that I have no idea why anyone would want to harm their fellow man in such an atrocious way.Now to the film itself. The soundtrack to the film was extremely well fitted. I could in no way fault the acting, and the direction was well done. The only fault I could possibly give it, and this is at a stretch, was it got confusing at times as the film would jump from future to present without telling you it had. That was obviously hard to follow.Certain scenes in the film were very difficult to watch. And when I went to see how much the film was to buy on the internet, it came up as a PG (in UK). This disturbed me as I'm 18 and was strongly affected by this film. I would never let anyone under the age of, at the very least, 15 watch it. This is not because its gory (although thats an obvious factor), or because of the obvious strong issues, but because it is true. Its one thing watching 'Saw' for entertainment value (I don't see the appeal myself), but its another to watch a true account of what actually happened. They left nothing out. As a watcher you feel like you were actually there witnessing these atrocities.Although devastating to watch, and not for the faint of heart, I am still glad I saw this film, even if it was just to educate myself. I felt I had to know and no other film has better betrayed the Rwandan Genocide than this one.
coolgroove
I've seen both Hotel Rwanda, Tears of the Sun and Schindler's List. If you liked any of those movies, this is a must see. All the civil wars and violence around the globe cry out for this movie to be mandatory viewing for every human being in the world community. With all our advances in technology, information and science, we've learned nothing. We still resort to violence as a means of solving our problems, when in the end we use negotiation and understanding to extricate ourselves from war. Inhumanity, racial and ethnic hatred, bigotry and ethnic cleansing (genocide) are always lurking just beneath the surface. Shame on the WORLD for letting such atrocities as the Rwandan genocide and all others like it occur! (That includes the Jewish holocaust of WWII.) Mass murder of innocent and defenseless civilians doesn't happen in obscurity. It occurs right under our noses, precisely BECAUSE we say and do nothing! Yet, we're willing to die by the thousands to preserve our access to oil. Shame on the world!
bondgirl6781
How could this have happened? How could the most powerful countries including ours turn away? The worse part about these events and the ones before is that such atrocities are still happening! The film takes place in 1994 in Rwanda: a military man struggles with his own conscience and his own soul as he tries to bring himself to forgive his brother a DJ who encouraged and participated through the radio programs the genocide that would precede. For 100 days, men, women, and even children were slaughtered-over what? The question still looms. I have seen Hotel Rwanda and it was very affecting and hard to watch. But this film takes you outside the hotel and into the streets, the jungles, the roads, and all throughout Rwanda. We watch as the UN do nothing. We watch as the American government question what is the exact criteria that needs to be met before genocide could actually be called genocide. I saw this film and never in my whole have I ever been ashamed to call myself a human being much less an American. It had been only fifty years since the Holocaust when these events took place and no one has learned the lesson of history repeating themselves.
El Charro
This movie is totally unknown in my country (Venezuela), even I saw it already knowing the great programming of HBO and seemed me interesting to be able to see fund what happened in Rwanda in 1994, and how better movie to teach it that this.. Clearly that is seen that is through the history of two brothers of different ethnic groups, but the plot in general gives a great idea of what happened in those dates in that almost unknown and hidden African country. I will be quick to see "Hotel Rwanda" to remain clearer on the theme and more cultured with regard to these historic events. All the actions were very good and I congratulate them HBO staff, channel which transmits pretty good programming that I seen as long as I could.
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