Similarities Between Hotel Rwanda And Blood Diamond

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Africa is currently healing from the scars that had been formed due to its ferocious past that includes the Rwandan genocide as well as the diamond war. The outside world had very little knowledge of the events that had taken place at that time and gained their knowledge mostly from Hollywood’s reenactments of those events. Films such as Hotel Rwanda and Blood Diamond are very good examples of these reenactments.
These movies may have gained huge success in the international industry but they had portrayed Africa in a very stereotypical way as well as only focusing on the human rights violation that had been done. The movies had ignored historical and cultural contexts of human rights abuses as well as downplaying the severity of genocide just to attain maximum entertainment value for the films. Hollywood’s portrayal of Africa and Africans is very far fetched …show more content…

Simplistically framing the conflict along the lines of “good guys and bad guys” does not help the cause of human rights, but refuels anger, reinforces diverging contradictions, and makes conflict-resolutions difficult. In the midst of this savage contrast is the allegory of the savior compelled to come and rescue the victims. Hotel Rwanda castigates the non-arrival of the liberator, but nonetheless the liberator image is constructed through the western journalists and United Nations general. He is portrayed to be the savior of the survivors from the genocide. Him being the savior is exaggerated as it portrays that Africans are not capable of doing anything without help from the

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