卢旺达(RWANDA)…一个我很不熟悉的城市…只是知道…是非洲的著名城市…但是…我并不知道..原来..这个城市背后曾经有一段血腥的过去…也是这段血腥的过去…见证了一个叫 Paul Rusesabagina 的伟大…
可能讲得有点恐怖..其实血腥画面很少…看到的只是两个种族之间的斗争..直接得取了贫民的姓名…1268(一个让我印象深刻的数字)是PAUL成功利用一间由他管理的四星级旅店…收留的人质人数…虽然这个数字比起800,000死去的生命…是很微不足道…但是…凭着一个人的力量…圆滑机智的办事手法…就算他只救了一个人我还是会很佩服他…
我承认…我只能用同情心看这部片子…同理心…真的很难…短短几个小时的电影…让我感觉到…我在当下拥有的比他们多…至少…我是坐在舒服的客厅…朋友在旁陪伴…看着这部电影…
**GENOCIDE…很恐怖你名词…念微生物…我知道BACTERIOCIDE是把细菌杀死…而GENOCIDE..就是把基因(后代)’干掉’
Synopsis
This film is based on true events that took place
during the genocidal violence that erupted in Rwanda between the Hutu and Tutsi groups in 1994, when the Hutu military and Interahamwe
militias killed roughly 800,000 Tutsis over approximately 100 days.
The film opens with a radio being tuned in to RTLM, playing an extremist anti-Tutsi
broadcast (“They are cockroaches.
They are murderers.
Rwanda
is our Hutu land”) to elaborate on the situation in
Rwanda
in 1994. Massive tensions
existed between the Hutus, the majority
group and the Tutsis, the
minority group that had once had governmental control. The invasion by the
predominantly Tutsi RPF and the resulting civil war had increased these tensions.
Paul Rusesabagina (Don Cheadle) and
his wife, Tatiana (Sophie
Okonedo) make a good living in Rwanda with their three children, two
girls and a son. Paul is the hotel manager of the Belgian resort, the Hotel des
Mille Collines - perhaps the most extravagant hotel in the country. As Paul continues
his daily job of gladhanding high-ranking Rwandan officials and foreign
visitors, he starts to become aware of a dangerous tension brewing in the city.
Early in the film Paul goes to visit George Rutaganda,
deputy leader of the Hutu extremist Interahamwe
militia, who encourages him to join the Interahamwe. Paul, a moderate Hutu,
refuses. Paul begins to realize that something terrible is about to happen in
the country, but his fears are eased because the United Nations and
foreign press are in the city to cover the president signing a
historic peace agreement.
Paul and the others at the hotel are informed that
the president was killed when his plane was shot down, presumably by the Tutsi
rebels (it has been alleged that Hutu extremists upset at the peace signing,
shot down the president so as to have a motivating catalyst for the actions
against the Tutsi.) Massive Hutu riots begin, as tens of thousands of Tutsis
across the city and country are slaughtered by the Interahamwe, who are backed
by the (predominantly Hutu) national army. Paul immediately looks after his
family only, and hopes the uprising will be squashed because of the U.N.
presence in the country, coupled with journalists openly documenting the
slaughter. (One such journalist in the country is played by actor Joaquin Phoenix.)
As conditions worsen, Paul starts to locate his
friends and relatives, many of them (including his wife) are Tutsi, in an
attempt to transport them to the hotel, as it is under the protection of U.N.
soldiers, led by Colonel Oliver (Nick Nolte). Paul
manages to bribe violent
soldiers into letting his friends and family live, and gets them into the
hotel. Hundreds more refugees
flock to the hotel for safety and the staff becomes overwhelmed with feeding
and helping all the children and injured. Ten Belgian U.N. soldiers are
murdered while protecting Tutsi Prime Minister Agathe Uwilingiyimana, who was also killed.
A convoy from a French-led intervention force
arrives, but only to evacuate foreign nationals, mostly whites and journalists
who were guests there. Oliver leaves the hotel with only four U.N. guards and
ashamedly tells Paul that no foreign help is coming to stop the slaughter
because no one cares enough to intervene, as troops from both the intervention
force and from some of the UNAMIR
nations withdraw. Paul telephones all his contacts and trades in favors he had
built up as manager of the hotel.
RTLM radio urges Hutus to storm the hotel and kill
Paul as well as all the Tutsi "cockroaches". Paul, in a desperate
attempt, manages to convince his contact in the Hutu army, General Augustin Bizimungu, that he will be charged with war crimes unless
he comes to the hotel and stops the Interahamwe from slaughtering refugees.
Bizimungu attempts to convince Paul to retreat with him and the army to
Gitarama, to escape the RPF rebel advance on
Kigali
, but eventually agrees with Paul. The
plan works, and the refugees are saved. A large convoy of U.N. trucks finally
arrives to save everyone, traveling away from the hotel. The convoy passes
thousands of fleeing Hutus, attempting to escape from the
RPF. The convoy is rescued from an Interahamwe attack by an RPF ambush and is
able to reach the refugee camp. At the camp, Paul and Tatiana find their two
missing nieces among other lost children as well as Pat Archer (a Red Cross
member who brought several orphans to the hotel earlier in the story), and
celebrate their survival and reunion.
The ending titles reveal that Paul managed to save
1,268 refugees and that because of the RPF invasion the Hutu army/Interahamwe
retreated into
Zaire
.
It also explains that Rutaganda and General Bizimungu were tried for crimes against humanity, but also reveals that almost
1,000,000 Rwandans lost their lives in the genocide. Paul now lives in
Belgium
with
his family, including his adopted nieces.
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