I went and saw Hotel Rwanda tonight with FrozenSunshine and Kaskata.
It was excellent up until the end. It bothered me that it ended without talking about any of the current problems Rwanda is facing because of the genocide. Sure, they "officially" ended more than 10 years ago, but when 2,000 women who were raped during the genocide were tested for HIV in 1999, 80% tested positive who had not been sexually active before 1994; 264,000 children have lost at least one parent to AIDS; 1 in 5 children will die before their 5th birthday.
But it happened 10 years ago, so everything is kosher now. I don't know. I really thought it was an important film to be made and the acting was great. I just wish at the end - when they give you a history lesson on the screen - they mentioned something about how yes, nearly a million people died, but millions more are still suffering.
It was excellent up until the end. It bothered me that it ended without talking about any of the current problems Rwanda is facing because of the genocide. Sure, they "officially" ended more than 10 years ago, but when 2,000 women who were raped during the genocide were tested for HIV in 1999, 80% tested positive who had not been sexually active before 1994; 264,000 children have lost at least one parent to AIDS; 1 in 5 children will die before their 5th birthday.
But it happened 10 years ago, so everything is kosher now. I don't know. I really thought it was an important film to be made and the acting was great. I just wish at the end - when they give you a history lesson on the screen - they mentioned something about how yes, nearly a million people died, but millions more are still suffering.
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It was actually michigan, right on st joseph.