Kinyarwanda, which was directed by Alrick Brown, is a movie that takes places during the Rwandan Genocide. Throughout the movie, we watch a few different perspectives from different types of people during the genocide. Some include the leader of a mosque and a little girl whose parents were both killed for being tutsis. The film is very inspiring as it shows people of different beliefs coming together to protect each other. At one point in the movie, the leader of the mosque opens up the doors to his mosque as a refuge for those being targeted by the Hutus including even Christians. The director did an excellent job of bringing different people together at the end, but the movie was a little confusing as it switched from the present to flashbacks without differentiating the two very well and only becoming clear after watching the movie. Overall, Alrick Brown does an amazing job of mixing his global perspectives into the film that has allowed me to see the Rwandan Genocide through someone else's eyes. I believe this film deserves an 8/10 rating because it was very insightful and interesting to watch.

Overall I thought this was a very interesting film. I particularly liked how the film maker decided to use different stories in the film, and intertwined them together, as well as using flashbacks. This film showed many problems that went on during the Rwandan genocide, like the conflicting problems between the Hutus and the Tutsis. This film tried to show that with all the violence that went on during the genocide, and some of the people who decided to act violently by murdering their own people, there were others who decided to risk their lives in order to save the ones who were about to get murdered. This portrayed that the genocide was not all bad, there were people who decided to help others who were in danger of getting killed, like the military soldiers who were trained in Uganda, and decided to rescue the people who were in the middle of the genocide, but were not a part of committing violent crimes, and murder. This film showed how religious freedom and peace was an important role for those who were against the genocide, and the ones involved in it. This film is not American, but it does share some similar things to American films, like the happy ending at the end of the film, most American films have happy endings, so it was interesting to see that as well in this film, and how they spoke both English and Kinyarwanda. I would not change anything about this film, and therefore would give it a 4/5 stars.

I have mixed feelings on this film. There were some things I really liked about it and other things I wasn't too fond of. I didn't really like how it followed so many different stories at once. The movie was very hard to follow for most of it and a lot of the transitions happened at the worst times in the film. It was an interesting approach for production however. It was a good idea, just slightly poorly executed in my opinion. Apart from that, the information portrayed in the film was very good. It showed may different perspectives. Unlike Hotel Rwanda, this film showed the Rwandan Genocide from the perspective of the Tutsi civilians and the Hutus and Muslims that were not involved. I liked the scene where all the high priority Muslims of the mosque got together and peacefully discussed what they should do about the current events. I thought this film was a lot more realistic and down to earth than Hotel Rwanda. I also really liked how the director decided to put in scenes from the Re-Education camps. I found it astonishing that most of the people that participated in the genocide were just normal human beings like us that had no grime on the Tutsis. They only participated because they jumped on the bandwagon so they wouldn't get killed.