Reply #7: I can see that [View All]

[Solly Mack]

When they were driving along the river road, I kept saying to myself, "please don't show the river, please don't show the river washed with blood and bodies" (I couldn't take it-it's still too vivid in my mind from the original news stories)....but when they didn't...as horrid as those "bumps" were (and I knew what what they were driving over) then back to the hotel...I thought...NO! Show the river!!!!! People MUST see the river!!!!

Again with the film footage when the photo-journalist(after defying the reporter) was showing the tape to the "reporter" wouldn't leave the hotel.. and the tape didn't fully depict the horror and the madness .I'm screaming...NO!!! You must show this!...Really show this....not just a "hint"...REALLY SHOW THE ACTUAL FOOTAGE and show a lot of it. People MUST know. They MUST see. They must FEEL the machetes cutting into flesh! They MUST feel the terror!

I know it was a movie and not a documentary....but the horror...the sheer horror needed to be seen...Yes...to slap people across the face with it. To slap them hard.


It seems if an event makes governments (most certainly plural) look bad, time is always given a chance to pass before attention is brought to it...This should have been made 10 years ago (I agree)...by waiting they've allowed people to view and say "that's in the past...it was horrible, but still the past"...so the viewing is filtered for them through "things we can not do about the past"...like it's easier for people to watch if they can not feel guilty at the same time....I think it's deliberate and manipulation to wait.

If that makes sense...

like time somehow puts any of it into perspective (when it was 100& clear to begin with..genocide always is clear and the who could have done what are always clear)...as if time somehow changes the truth and the reality... like it makes it easier to accept...

it only served to make people feel comfortable about not paying attention when it was happening. they can watch it...and go back to their dinners. (to borrow a phrase) just like when it was actually happening

"Oh yes, that was bad...those poor people....pass the meat, please."

I cried before the movie actually started...I cried throughout the movie...for so many reasons.

But in the end, I wanted it to be more "real"...because I want people to feel shame for what happened in Rwanda...the world keeps saying "never again"...and it keeps happening....(Sudan)

Recall that line from the UN guy, played by Nolte...at the bar when talking to "Paul" and Nolte's character said you should "spit in my face"..and then went on to explain why...I wondered how many people would not have gotten his statement had it not been written into the dialogue....that the writers had to put it in there for people to understand...even though without it, it was still "obvious" why humans were being written off that way.

Thanks for your post and sorry for the rambling