The film, "Kinyarwanda," filmed by Alrick Brown, has a unique perspective on the Rwandan genocide, as well as the Islamic religion widely practiced in Rwanda. I have mixed feelings about this specific film. I liked and also disliked the flashback factor integrated in the film. It was very cool and unique, but it also made the film much harder to follow. It was a very cool touch that the director added into the making of the film. Director, Alrick Brown, is from Kingston, Jamaica, and he served in the peace corps for several years. Therefore, Brown has a multicultural perspective on many world issues, this including the Rwandan genocide. Often portrayed in a negative way, Alrick Brown shows the hidden good side of the people stuck within the Rwandan genocide. This is often something we miss with American films -- the different global perspectives on a subject. What we may think in America and our views could be totally twisted to what the actual impact and turnout to the event ended up being in different countries where those problems take place. Other countries' views could be totally twisted to what we think happened, so it is refreshing to receive a clean, global perspective from a person who knows more about the Rwandan culture than I do.

Kinyarwanda was a very informational film. It was interesting how one movie was able to give a story on many different aspects of the actual genocide in Rwanda. It showed the lives of regular people who were just trying to get on through the day, the girl who was Tutsi and her "boyfriend" who was Hutu. It caused me to understand why this movie, in my opinion, was hard to follow. It was because there were so many different stories being told in just the span of a movie. The Hutus during the actual genocide, the Hutus after the genocide in the re-edukation camps, the Tutsi trying to survive during the genocide, and then the Tutsi rebels who came to the rescue for the Tutsi that were hiding. This film showed all of these stories in one movie and was trying to display the reality and impact of the genocide in each of these groups of people's lives and that is really difficult to do. I think that it was done really well for the task that was trying to be completed and the movie in the end did what it was meant to do.

Kinyarwanda was a film that took place in the country of Rwanda in Africa. In the beginning of the film, everything seemed to be fine, showing no ethnic discrimination, until people were seen lined up in the streets at night after Tutsi's had been captured hiding in a church. Then a character came home one night to see that her parents had been murdered by a Hutu, that would be an awful experience that I'm hoping would never happen to me or someone I know. For a movie filmed in Rwanda it seemed pretty Americanized, English was the main language in the movie and it had a sort of happy ending like an American film. This was of course because the director was Jamaican, so English was the language. Personally, I liked the ending of the movie and don't think there's anything much different that could have happened to make the film better.

After watching Hotel Rwanda, this film gives you a different perspective. Hotel Rwanda seemed to show more of the rich people staying in the hotel trying to save their lives. Yes, they were being threatened but they did get to stay in a very nice hotel. Also, those people had very powerful friends who tried to help them. In this film it was different, the "average" person's life seemed to be on display. Some of the things that happened were really hard to imagine. Specifically, when a girl came home and both her parents were dead. She Left the house and never got to apologize to her parents. Then, later in the film she somehow forgave the people who killed her parents. Maybe killings are so common that people are just expected to not hold a grudge over that or something, but it seems like if someone had killed my parents I wouldn't have forgiven them just because they asked.