After Seeing Rwanda

My first thought after seeing Hotel Rwanda was that this movie was very well done. I felt very involved with the situation and the characters. I also felt that this movie was hard to watch. What I mean is that the setting of the movie and the tone of the movie gave me no hints about the outcome of the story, other than that it was a survivor’s story. Normally a story is generic and you can figure out what will happen at any moment but this survivor’s story was so crazy that it wasn’t predictable. Not knowing the plot, I was always half expecting any of the main characters to die. To me this kind of reflects the feeling of the actual situation in Rwanda. No one knew what would happen next or who would survive.