Hotel Rwanda and Finding Neverland

[CodePoet]

Last week started with me having to go see Hitch with Mom. I love mom, and will do these kinds of things for her, but I knew I would need to plan ahead for some visual karmic cleansing later in the week. So I took in two movies last week that were playing at Downtown West, and both of them are worth seeing. Hitch is not, but I think you knew that...

The first flick was one I knew about for sometime, Hotel Rwanda. The movie is about a man's struggle to save his family and several other people as we, the members of the UN, left his country in the hands of genocide. You probably haven't even heard of what happened in Rwanda, the UN commander stationed in Rwanda summed it up best when he told our hero, "You are dirt, don't you get it? We, the west, the ones you look up to, don't care about you because you are black. You are worse, you are African; not even a nigger." Of the whole film I will remember that line the most. It was not said in hate, the UN commander had just received his orders to get the white people out and then reduce UN troops to 300 for the whole country.

I left the movie in deep thought, not depressed but in a dark mood. Since I like to be completely tossed into another realm when seeing a movie, my next choice was Finding Neverland. If you've seen some of those amazing, only Jonny Depp could play, movies, this one is right up there. It is the story of the inspiration for writing Peter Pan. How much is based in fact I do not know, but even if none of it is it wouldn't affect the enjoyment of the movie. It is a genuinely uplifting without being a Hollywood cliché. That's something I don't find too often, a “feel goodâ€

[naturegrrl]

i saw it finding neverland on the plane. nice but horridly depressing. didn´t make me feel good at all. since i was spending a week down here by myself it made me miss my 3 year old even more than i would have already.