ipl-logo

Sometimes In April Movie Analysis

575 Words3 Pages
bulb-icon

Recommended: Impact of media in a society

In April – July 1994 a massacre genocide happened in the country Africa between two groups of African people, which were known as the Hutus and Tutsi. Rwanda is part of Africa the movie took place . Within these four months 800,000 people died. As I viewed the film Sometimes In April it really showed how they killed the Tutsi people just because of who they were. The main character Augustin and his brother Honore played opposite sides during the genocide. Augustin was a soldier who was married to a Tutsi woman. His brother Honore was a radio personal which caused a little spark in the massacre. Augustin’s brother Honore was being trailed in court when the movie began of the movie. Government officials believed that his radio stations was giving messages of hate and division were being promoted. The government wanted to jam the station. Someone stated it wouldn’t be fair if they jammed the …show more content…

1). This believed it was supposed to be “enlighten” turned into conquerors in the scums of the Earth. Everything the Europeans put their hands on their lessons of hate was brought to the country. Hutus then begin to pick on the Tutsi nation by calling them “cockroaches.” When President Juvenal Habyarimana this sparked a war in Africa. (Staff, 2009, p. 1)
In our book Intercultural Communications (2009) this movie reminds me of chapter 5 Initial Intercultural. This chapter talks about two different cultures types. Acculturation is a prime example of what happened in the movie Sometimes in April. Acculturation is defined in the book of people “learning some of the adapting or borrowing culture with the different practices and values” (Oetzel, 2009, p. 72). This was played throughout the movie when the Europeans came to the school and they started learning more of the Europeans way of

Show More
Related
403 Words | 2 Pages

In the book “An Ordinary man: An Autobiography” by Paul Rusesabagina, the author faces many bad problems and experiences distasteful moments throughout the whole novel. The author uses quotes the explain the significance of the 1994 Genocide in his own eyes. Near the middle of the story, as Paul explains the harsh treatment and taunting of RTLM against them, he tells us about a teacher who brainwashed her students into hating the “Hutus.” “It always bothers me when I hear Rwanda’s Genocide being described as the product of ‘ancient tribal hatred.’ I think this is a easy way for westerners to dismiss the whole thing as a regrettable but pointless bloodbath that happens to primitive brown people (Rusesabagina Chp.4 Pg.53).”

Read More
1400 Words | 6 Pages

In 1994, Rwanda was gripped with murderous fervor as Hutus across the country took up machetes against their Tutsi neighbors in what became 100 days of genocide that left 800,000 dead. Does the history of Rwanda provide any evidence of the implementation of the ten steps of genocide? How did Belgian imperialism influence the relationship between Hutus and Tutsis? What ultimately made the average Hutu decide to murder their Tutsi neighbors? In this paper I will investigate how the ten steps of genocide was used in Rwanda, the effects of imperialism on Rwandan culture and gain insight into why Hutus decided to kill Tutsis through the analysis of the book Machete Season by Jean Hatzfeld.

Read More
634 Words | 3 Pages

According to Google, War is a state of armed conflict between different countries or groups within a nation or state. These armed conflicts are mostly caused by the government. During this time, the government can control you, the civilian, and you don’t even realize it. How may they control you, you may ask? By propaganda.

Read More
532 Words | 3 Pages

The 2002 comedy film, ‘‘Friday after Next ' ' cranks up an impressive amount of energy considering that it 's the third installment. Yet although most of the ' 'Friday ' ' team returns, attrition is slowly wearing away at the series. ' 'I don 't know if I can handle another Friday, ' ' Craig says at the start of the movie, suggesting that despite all the laughs, he understands how tired the series is becoming. This film is directed by Marcus Raboy. Mike Epps is the comic character of the film that keep you guessing what he would do next, and Ice Cube is the serious cousins that keeps it altogether.

Read More
1323 Words | 6 Pages

In Source B we see that the Hutu extremists backed up their massacre and killing by saying that what they were doing was an order given to them. They said that they were told to kill all the Tutsis and this made it easier for them to do it, they were not the ones who had to decide what they had to do. They believed that because they were being ordered to kill that there would no consequences that they would have to face. This is similar to Hitler’s ideal in saying that it is natural to be cruel. In Source D, Hitler says that he is only going to be cruel because nature is also cruel; it is therefore a natural aspect of life.

Read More
1688 Words | 7 Pages

All the children in the village went to school together. Even though Immaculée’s family identified as Tutsi, there were friends of people in the Hutu

Read More
1523 Words | 7 Pages

The two groups mentioned above, Hutu and Tutsi, had a strong dislike for one another as it has been described in source

Read More
451 Words | 2 Pages

(document 7) Belgians created the ideas of the Tutsis being the superior race and the Hutus are the inferior race, moreover, the Belgian had ethnic identity cards made to distinguish between the Hutus and the Tutsis. Someone shot the president of Rwanda, Habyarimana ‘s airplane down, this gave an open door to the Hutus to gain control of Rwanda and over the Tutsis. Since there was no president all hell broke loose, Hutu officials corrupted government ran radios and newspapers, they suggested the killing of Tutsis. (Document 8) A group called, Rwandan Patriotic Front founded by Tutsis attacked government forces and defeated radical Hutu in Kigali. More than 3 million migrated to Europe, Canada, the United States, or neighboring countries.

Read More
1671 Words | 7 Pages

As time moved forward, the relationship between Europeans and Natives started to change, and with this change came forced assimilation. For the Natives, the Europeans saw the forced assimilation as there way of civilizing them (Lahlum, 22 Feb 2017). One of the main features of forced assimilation was Indian Boarding schools. In these schools, they teach the Native children English and Christianity (Laliberte, Natives, Neighbors, and the National Game, 2010). On the other hand, the immigrants from Germany and Scandinavia willingly adapted there culture to include aspects of Minnesota/ American Culture.

Read More
552 Words | 3 Pages

This is a Eulogy to Paul Rusesabagina from the film Hotel Rwanda. This is from a personal point of view as an important person to Paul. Paul Rusesabagina was truly the greatest, of the greatest of men. He was selfless, wise, and kind beyond belief. I remember the good and bad times we shared together.

Read More
989 Words | 4 Pages

Terry George aims no less than to demonstrate the Rwandese reality through the extremely violent and cruel scenes in the movie, he manages to convince the audience that really, over 800,000 people were in fact killed in no more than 100 days and more than 2 million refugees had to seek shelter elsewhere in the world (1). To begin with, it is important to understand the root causes of the conflict between Tutsis and Hutus to in turn understand the genocide demonstrated in the movie. Rwanda was

Read More
1339 Words | 6 Pages

One cannot fight fire with fire. While massacre reigns in Rwanda and people take betrayal to the extreme, Paul Rusesabagina in his book, An Ordinary Man, proofs how violence is unnecessary while standing against the power of the word. As Rusesabagina states, words are “powerful tools of life”(Rusesabagina, 19). The war between the two different ethnic groups, Hutus and Tutsis, and the death of thousands left a mark Rwanda’s memory; the author says: “It is the darkest bead on our national necklace” (222). Even though a large part of Rwanda’s population is massacred, many are saved by one of Rwanda’s timeless heroes.

Read More
656 Words | 3 Pages

The Rwandan genocide was a mass murder of thousands of Tutsi people by the Hutu people, they were viciously killed and scared out of their country, partly due to the rumor that a Tutsi man ordered the death of the Rwandan President. To begin, from April to July 1994, members of the Hutu ethnic group in the East-Central African nation murdered 800,000 men, women, and children from the Tutsi ethnic group. During this period Hutu civilians were forced by military soldier and police officers to kill their neighbors, friends, and family (“10 facts About the Rwandan Genocide-Borgen”). Radio stations encouraged ordinary civilians to take part in the killings (“10 facts About the Rwandan Genocide-Borgen”).

Read More
848 Words | 4 Pages

This made large divides between the two cultures and later many civil conflicts between the groups. In 1994 when the president 's plane was shot down the government and Hutu militants blamed the Tutsis, radio broadcasts across the country encourages Hutus to take revenge and kill the Tutsis, in the end an estimated 800000 to 1 million people died. The globalization of Belgians colony and the scramble for africa through that part of the world into a blood conflict of cultures and terrorist/militant groups that still rages on

Read More
1464 Words | 6 Pages

Rwanda has a history of deep rooted conflict which originates back to when it was once a colony of Germany. Once it became a colony of Belgium after world war one this conflict also came with it, The conflict that exists is thus of two ethnic tribal groups the; Hutus and the Tutsis and their strong hatred of one another. Rwandans myths seems to indicate that Hutu and Tutsi identities did exist before the colonization but the hatred of two predominate ethnic tribal groups of one another only came into existence after colonization. This conflict between them has nothing to with religion, race or language it is to do with territory and the ownership of Rwanda. It is because of the colonies exploitation and classification of the Rwandan people into“an ethnic group” that the conflict seemed to come to a head.

Read More

More about Sometimes In April Movie Analysis

Related Topics

Open Document