The Film Hotel Rwanda, By Paul Rutaganda

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The film Hotel Rwanda starts off with a radio broadcast. The man on the radio is speaking against the Tutsi’s; presumably this mystery man on the radio is Georges Rutaganda, who is a Hutu militia Interahamwe. Our protagonist, Paul Rusesabagin, runs a hotel and is also a Hutu himself. He is a friendly man who gets along with everyone and does not agree with most of the other Hutu’s. His wife is a Tutsi which forces him to deal with a lot more harassment from the other Hutu’s. With Paul’s determination, he helped spark the counter revolution seen at the end of the movie. The film takes place in the region, which is the dramaturgical perspective, the context or setting in which the performance takes place (Ferris & Stein, 132), of Rwanda. The …show more content…

In the movie we see Paul getting pushed by Georges to support and join the Hutu in the fight against the Tutsi. His happens a little in the start of the film, but is seem slightly more joking. Then the movie goes on to Georges not giving Paul some supplies once Paul begins to protect Tutsis from getting killed. This is when Georges starts to try to really get Paul to join the Hutus in the fighting. The last time Paul sees Georges he told Paul that now is the time to join, because they are ready to go in and kill. Once again Paul says no. George is trying to use social influence on Paul to get him to agree with his views on the matter. Then we see as Paul and Georges talk, how much Georges stereotypes the Tutsis. He calls them all cockroaches, and …show more content…

When people temporary gather in a public place and members might interact, but do not identify with each other and will not remain in contact that is a crowd (Ferris & Stein, 152), however I believe that the Hutus represent more of a group, which is a collection of people who share some attribute, identify with one another, and interact with each other (Ferris & Stein, 152). Most of the Hutus worked together and continue to make contact with one another to keep the fighting going, where as I see the Tutsi’s being more of a group until they started to fight back. The Hutus and Tutsis made their own subculture because they differentiated by their own distinctive values, norms and lifestyle (Ferris & Stein, 107). They made it so murder is okay, as long as it is the Tutsi side that is being killed. The Hutu celebrate when they kill hundreds of Tutsi or use them as slaves. All this fighting is over something they cannot control, their ascribed status. Ascribed status is an inborn status, usually difficult or impossible to change (Ferris & Stein, 142). They do not get to control who they are, and only the choices they make changes them as a person. The Hutu do not see it as this way though. They believe that because of this status they keep getting the shorter end of the stick so

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