Gets on my nerves how people talk about this being a white saviour movie. I’m not sure how that applies considering this is a real life event.
Romeo Dallaire’s account of the genocide and particularly the brutality behind the actions of the United Nations and the Interahahmwe is ballistic in nature and you can feel his trauma and guilt through both the incredible performance as well as his words in the case of his book.
I already summarized most of my 1994-related thoughts in my review of Hotel Rwanda (2004), which is a film that seems dramatized and self-serving in comparison to this movie. That being said, it’s not without its faults. Obviously this is Dallaire’s account of the whole thing and we should take anything a military man says with a grain of salt, but his writings have been corroborated by people who were there at the time, so I don’t think this is the grandiose tale people want to portray it as.
Film-wise, this film is nothing special. The audio is weird and the colour grading is that delightful 2000s high-contrast warm nightmare we see too often. But one very special aspect of this film is that all of the scenes were filmed exactly where Dallaire’s memoir recounts them—something that feels very sentimental to me.
So uh yeah I hope this was summarized enough. I am NOT going to tag this with my DILF tag bc I feel like that would be disrespectful
Gets on my nerves how people talk about this being a white saviour movie. I’m not sure how that applies considering this is a real life event.
Romeo Dallaire’s account of the genocide and particularly the brutality behind the actions of the United Nations and the Interahahmwe is ballistic in nature and you can feel his trauma and guilt through both the incredible performance as well as his words in the case of his book.
I already summarized most of my 1994-related thoughts in my review of Hotel Rwanda (2004), which is a film that seems dramatized and self-serving in comparison to this movie. That being said, it’s not without its faults. Obviously this is Dallaire’s account of the whole thing and we should take anything a military man says with a grain of salt, but his writings have been corroborated by people who were there at the time, so I don’t think this is the grandiose tale people want to portray it as.
Film-wise, this film is nothing special. The audio is weird and the colour grading is that delightful 2000s high-contrast warm nightmare we see too often. But one very special aspect of this film is that all of the scenes were filmed exactly where Dallaire’s memoir recounts them—something that feels very sentimental to me.
So uh yeah I hope this was summarized enough. I am NOT going to tag this with my DILF tag bc I feel like that would be disrespectful
