{"id":866,"date":"2005-03-12T15:32:02","date_gmt":"2005-03-12T20:32:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flyingplates.com\/?p=866"},"modified":"2018-11-16T10:14:19","modified_gmt":"2018-11-16T15:14:19","slug":"being-julia-and-hotel-rwanda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flyingplates.com\/?p=866","title":{"rendered":"Being Julia and Hotel Rwanda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I went to the movies and saw two films back to back again. But this time there is no parallel to be drawn between them. I chose the first one, &#8220;Being Julia&#8221;, because it happened to be about to start when I walked into the cinema. It is the story of an ageing theater actress who has an affair with a much younger man. The actress is played by Annette Bening, who is pretty and a good actress. There is one scene at the end of the movie that might make the movie worth seeing. She is set to play opposite a much younger woman who is now the mistress of both Annette&#8217;s husband and her young ex lover as well. She has been unexpectedly cooperative up until then&#8230;and when the curtain rises&#8230;.she turns the tables on the young beauty&#8230;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sonyclassics.com\/beingjulia\/\">http:\/\/www.sonyclassics.com\/beingjulia\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The second film is of a totally different caliber, it is &#8220;Hotel Rwanda&#8221;. It is based on the true story of Paul Rusesabagina, a man who managed to save over a thousand Rwandans from the genocide. He was manager in a five star hotel and he welcomed, hid and protected Tutsis refugees on the premises. It is a powerful and violent film. But, from what I have seen in recent years on the subject, no film can ever come close to the horror of that &#8220;war&#8221; between brothers: the Utus and the Tutsis. When I was young and read about the Holocaust I was ashamed for the human race&#8230;but at least it was ultimately recognized and criticized. But the genocide in Rwanda has been for the most part ignored by the rest of the world&#8230;and THAT, in this day of instant communication, is unforgivable.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mgm.com\/ua\/hotelrwanda\/intro.html\">http:\/\/www.mgm.com\/ua\/hotelrwanda\/intro.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I went to the movies and saw two films back to back again. But this time there is no parallel to be drawn between them. I chose the first one, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flyingplates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flyingplates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flyingplates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flyingplates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flyingplates.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=866"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/flyingplates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/866\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1704,"href":"https:\/\/flyingplates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/866\/revisions\/1704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flyingplates.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flyingplates.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flyingplates.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}