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Hotel Rwanda (2004)
a pervert piece of film
Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot... genocides under their rule are what we consider the biggest crimes in history. but just 10 years ago there was another one...almost one million people were slaughtered in rwanda. all nations worldwide were watching. no one did intervene.
this setting is shown in this movie where we see a lot of brave people, a lot of good people, who are so full of altruism one believes them to be angels. they go through a hard time and in the end everybody is happy. we have a nice score. we have a be reunion in the end. everybody is happy. we can leave the cinema with a warm feeling, isn't that great.
but wait...what about the real 900.000 people killed. what about the nations of the world just watching? oops someone seemed to have forgotten about them.
how can you make a movie about the times of civil war in rwanda and just show good people. how can you create a classic Hollywood movie with this theme? thats more cynicism than i can bare. have we come this far, that we enjoy a genocide as background for a nice evenings entertainment. i found it very hard to watch this movie, because i was just disgusted.
Splinter Cell (2002)
great game-play ... combined with an extremely fascistic story
Even though the game-play is great the story implies a world view which gives me the creeps. The essential freedoms and the human rights can only be protected if the "good guy" break undermine these rights? Terrorist and unliked politicians have to be executed. Not even the government is being informed...because it is just the right thing. Even though many games use these ideas the normally don't promote them in such a naive propagandistic style.
With such naive distinction between good and evil implicating that the end always justifies the means, promotes fascistic ideas. it is a shame that such a great game is being destroyed down by the infantile world view of its designers.
game-play 4.5 out of 5 story ought better be banned