Hotel Rwanda
Hotel Rwanda.Amazing. Gripping. Don Cheadle is brillant. Point blank. Here is the review I left on www.imdb.com:
Heart-wrenching, Inspiring, and Enlightening
I just got back from seeing Hotel Rwanda and in attempting to write a review, I find that all my words are lacking and are inadequate as well. I cannot fully describe the extent into which I was drawn into and moved by this film.I cried and laughed and rejoiced-the full gamut of emotions. Don Cheadle should have won the Oscar for this performance. I do not care what the Academy voters think-HE deserved it for his performance of a man, simply trying to keep not only his family, but innocent people from harm.The woman who played his wife, (sorry, I cannot remember her name) was just as excellent as Cheadle. I also commend the thousands of extras who composed this film-especially the children.Heart-wrenching, inspiring, enlightening, everyone should see this film. You will not regret it.
I thought that that pretty much sumed it up-but actually, in reality it doesn't
Wathcing the movie I cried-I felt such pain-an almost physical kind of pain of the heart when one realizes that while you gone on with you life, and crazy ramblings, things like this go on in the world. When the Rwandan genocide was occuring in 1994, I was 10 years old. I would have been psychologically impaired after this had I lived in it. There would be no going back to normalcy for me.
This is the same thing that I thought when the fire occured in my home December 22 2003, but my mom and I made it out of the house safely. But there was/is an immense kind of pain, losing everything-your life. That is the same thing those Rwandan familes went thought-they lost not only their homes, but a part of themselves-their world.
Heartbreaking.
I dabble a bit in numerology (www.numberquest.com) which is the belief that every letter in your name stands for a number, and when adding up the letters of your full name, you release number vibrations. Such as a Life Path Number, Destiny Number, Personality Number (the personality you exhibit to others) etc.....mine, for those who care to know, are predominately 9 and 1
Life Path=9
Destiny =1
Personality=1
(and other calculations such as Maturity number, etc... equal 1 as well)
But what I am getting at, is that 9 is the number for humanitarianism. Giving and recieving. Selflessness.
Hotel Rwanda stirs up humanitatian aspects in my nature I think. I just want to go places and heal, help-see the smiles of happiness on childrens faces. To make people feel better.
And what about those '1' s you may ask. Well, those ones represent the focus of oneself on....oneself. This is the "me me me" number, but it is also the number of the independent, the individula, the pioneering. But mosty, too many ones can lead to..well....selfishness......The numbers 1 (the beginning) and 9 (the ending) are polar opposites....which brings me to my next point:
Contradictorily, right now in my life, I am very, very concentrated upon the development of myself, my life. Trying to get my life the way that I want it to be. Trying to make myself who I want to be. But I definately see myself, in my later years, devoting my entire life to others existence. There is no way to help others if you, in fact cannot help yourself....right? I believe so. This all leads me to writing. My ultimate goal is to be a working writer. Writing is a medium in which I would like to point out my observances and shed light on subjects to make people think in different ways about things they wouldn't normally think about.
You have probbaly figured out that I have lofty goals. I profess that I am a very ambitious person (sometimes that ambition is not executed as much as it should be in terms of action, but hey, at least I have some goals right? lol)
If I could singlehandedly bring back the relevancey of poetry for a new generation-OMG. I would be so ecstatic. I write poetry, but who reads poetry right? Besides the poems you were made to read for high school english classes, and some lit course in college, how much do you read? What I don't think people understand is that poetry (and literature in gen.) reflects societry-there is a reson why when approaching something from a historical perspective they refer to literature, or to philosophy-they consult literature as well. Literature is the link between all worlds I believe including, even business when it comes right down to marketing a book for publishing as well.
People ask "Who reads books anyway?" Well, if books are not important then why are there a Borders and Barnes and Nobels and countless others internationally? Why are those places always packed?
My goal in life is to have people of all walks of life read my work and enjoy it. I would love to be as popular as Stephen King and in the literary canon like Toni Morrison, that would be excellent. Simply being known for my efforts is a good start. Don't you think? My mom has always told me that I need to climb down from my ideas and get a grip. Possibly, but no one ever gets anywhere by keeping their feet on the ground.
So there you have it. My thoughts of Hotel Rwanda, and the polar opposite of energiers that I am composed of.....stay tuned for the next entry in which I decide that I can be an astronaut and an olympic contender as well. LOL.
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