Friday, March 24, 2017
Rwandan Hotel
Recently in class we have been watching the movie hotel Rwanda. I cant help but draw big parallels to this movie and Schindler's list. In both movies there is a protagonist who is safe from the violence, Schindler is german nazi, and Paul is a Hutu. They both start out as bystanders but soon become up-standers after seeing the atrocities that developed before them. They both had people they wanted to protect. Actually a similar amount of people were both saved by the hotel and the factory, around 1200 each. They both used a landmark to shelter people and protect them. The hotel and the factory. They both also bribed many higher ups in an attempt to help the people they were protecting. Almost anywhere you look you can see the similarities between the two stories. Two entirely different events but two similar stories. Very interesting how genocide made these events happen.
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I think that in both of the situations that these men were in, there is always a sort of up-stander. Though that person may not always make as big of a change as these two did, it is the willingness that they have to risk their own life that is what makes them a huge up-stander.
ReplyDeleteThe only difference between them is that Schindler was initially a profiteer of slave labor and Paul didn't have to go through the long character arc Schindler does. In that sense Paul was a better hero because he never profited(at least in the movie)
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