Watched “Hotel Rwanda,” an inspiring (or rather disturbing) movie about the Rwanda Genocide in 1994. It makes me wonder… what it took for a person to take the other life; what could trigger a massacre; what can you do to prevent something bad even if you saw it coming…
It reminded me that despite lots of unfairness and stupid stuff in Malaysia… we are still a lucky bunch of people to be born on this land. It’s a pretty rare occasion that I felt really good to be in Malaysia, or to be a Malaysian… lots of the other time I was rather pessimist about our future, couldn’t help it.
Btw, I watched the movie in a hospital… any other weirder places to watch a movie?
March 15th, 2007 at 10:01 pm
jee, what happened? why u watched a movie in a hospital?
ya, sometimes we should appreaciate being born and growth in M’sia although lots of bias stuff. At least, we stil can have peaceful life
March 16th, 2007 at 12:22 am
alice… thanks for concern. Nothing serious, just brought my mum for a routine check, and waited for quite a while.
March 22nd, 2007 at 5:29 pm
Yeapz man, the genocide was really scary, even UN peacekeepers were either maimed or killed
Ohh i have watched movie in taxi and also at a few civil service offices.
March 22nd, 2007 at 5:57 pm
In a taxi? Singapore taxi got TV??
March 26th, 2007 at 7:31 am
Hahah there are some taxis that have tvs(its TVmobile, bus also have, but its mostly tv shows) I sat on a few MPV taxis before and the taxi drivers played movies for us to watch haha
March 31st, 2007 at 10:48 am
i watched this movie during my english lecture last semester… this movie is very good even when i slept, i dreamt about this movie.. hehehe.. when i watched this movie, i always wondering, if place like rwanda [where they are actually same in term of race but had been separated by the colonial powers according to their nose etc] can be like that, how about us, Malaysians? We always saying loudly that our country is unique, we are multi racial and all those stuffs but do we actually unite as malaysians? hopefully that genocides wont’t happen in malaysia…
btw, y do u watched that movie in hospital?
March 31st, 2007 at 4:02 pm
khairul… education matters. Unless something drastic happens, Malaysians are educated enough to avoid the genocide.
Just brought my mum for some routine medical check, nothing special.
April 12th, 2007 at 9:49 am
If you have seen hotel rwanda, you might want to watch “Shooting Dogs”?You might find in more dramatic than hotel rwanda. This film was based on true event of a massacre that happened in a school in Kigali during the Rwanda Genocide where over a thousand of people being slashed to death at one time. This movie had woke up from a deep senseless sleep…for those who have seen it, really looking forward to exchange views, for those who hav not..i strongly recommend it…this film had changed the way i look at life…
April 12th, 2007 at 11:15 am
Thanks for the recommendation azira. I won’t watch that movie on purpose… honestly these movies made me depress; it sparked lots of thinking and inspiring in some sense… but it’s hard to bear the cruelty of the world sometimes.