Hotel Rwanda/YMMV

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• Award Snub
• Complete Monster: George Rutaganda, a militant Hutu who starts out as a radio pundit urging for a Tutsi genocide, and ends up running a "rape camp" with scores of caged Tutsi women.
  • The hotel worker Gregois is also one, as he deliberately informed the militia of the truckload of refugees fleeing the hotel. What sets him up as this trope is that he does not even have the excuse of being a fanatic; he had spent much of the film blackmailing Paul with the threat of informing, so it is clear that he was only doing this for his own comfort and pleasure rather than due to any genuine beliefs that genocide was the right thing to do.
• Crowning Music of Awesome: The entire score, but the piece played as the foreigners are evacuated from the hotel, the orphan children arrive and are separated from the nuns and priests who have been caring for them, and the despondent foreigners look back on the Rwandans who must stay behind to await an unknown fate, is utterly haunting.
• Iron Woobie: Paul himself and his whole family. Especially the son.
• Moral Event Horizon: Go on, guess.
  • A personal one for Gregois comes when he informs the militia of the truckload of Tutsi refugees attempting to flee. Made even worse by the fact that he was not even a fanatic, and had been keeping quiet so he could blackmail Paul.
• Nightmare Fuel: The fact that this is a movie about a genocide that actually happened speaks for itself, but special mention goes to the scene where Paul finds that the bumpy road he was driving on was actually bumpy because it was covered in corpses. Don't make the same mistake I did and watch that scene after eating.
• Some Anvils Need to Be Dropped: The genocide depicted in the film speaks for itself.
• Tear Jerker: The entire movie, but especially when the Rwandan orphans are left behind by their caretakers, who are evacuated from the country.
  • Another particularly haunting line is when a red cross worker tearfully recalls how the militia made her watch as they butchered children, and how one little girl looked at her and said "Please don't let them kill me. I promise I won't be Tutsi any more". The girl got killed anyway.
  • Not to mention when Colonel Oliver finds out from his superior officers the U.N. soldiers aren't going to be protecting the refugees or helping them escape, and, filled with rage and shame, he tells a stunned Paul why:

Colonel Oliver: You're black. You're not even a nigger. You're African.