Hotel Rwanda

In the 2004 movie, Hotel Rwanda, which is based on the real life events in Rwanda during the spring of 1994, it shows the transformation of Paul Rusesabagina, from someone who focused on his own personal advantages and his family, to someone who showed characteristics of charity and selflessness. From the perspective of this movie, it brings awareness of the injustices in the world, and how such a situation like the genocide, whilst possessing attributes of selfishness, will result in nothing. Showing empathy to others and reaching out to help others ultimately saved Paul and his family. Human rights that were violated in aspects of how prejudice was present and people lost their rights where they could not go wherever they wanted, those of the tutsi ethnicity were attempted to annihilated by Hutu rebels.

The reaction of the people, naturally, were of fear and disturbance. From when the crisis started, where Paul did not believe in the warning from his fellow buddy, from that point onward, it definitely sparked a concern as the crisis worsened and everyone began to see the problem. The point where everything changed was definitely right after the president was assassinated and Rwanda was in chaos. Even at the point, …show more content…
The transition of Paul is also present in the transactions of the corrupt officials and rebels; at first he was giving his money and valuables to the officers and generals and rebels to try to get out of the situation as fast as possible, but as the chaos worsened and as things got worse, from paying to help just himself and his family, to helping his friends and colleagues, soon enough, he was risking his everything to save everyone in the hotel, and is the transition of his selfish nature to a person of selflessness, where he ultimately saved over 800