Hotel Rwanda - Family Review

Content Warnings

• Sexual Content

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  A woman is seen laying down on the floor, she's breastfeeding her child, while her right breast is shown.

  Paul and his wife embrace and kiss many times throughout the movie, and one scene Paul is shirtless in bed also with his wife (nothing explicit is shown).

  There is a woman wearing a swimsuit. A towel is covering her waist and legs, but her swimsuit shows lots of cleavage. I remember just one scene, but the woman appears a couple times throughout the movie.

  A scene where several women, are shown in their underwear and bras, in a camp wired cage.

• Violence

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  A man's throat is cut with a machete. In the same woman a man threaten a woman to reveal her name by pointing a machete against her throat.

  A Hutu throws a UN soldier's helmet to the UN commander. It is then revealed that the Hutu killed 10 UN soldiers.

  Some scenes of unarmed defenseless people pushed, beaten and threatened with knives/guns. However, most scenes of violence are not explicit or are shown at a distance.

  Many dead bodies are shown throughout.

  Murder, genocide, and strong violence are often mentioned and described including that of children, sometimes in detail.

  Gunfire at various parts of the film with some military violence and armed people shot.

  There are references of suicide.

  One particularly disturbing scene where several Hutus can be seen screaming, and murdering Tutsis with machetes.

  A scene where villagers are running from their homes as armed men shoot at them and burn their homes.

• Profanity

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  2 uses of fuck, one is hard to hear and early in the movie.

  Religious profanity.

  Some strong language, at least 1 'f' word and a few uses of the word 'shit', some racial slurs towards the Hutu and Tutsi who are often referred to as "cockroaches" and the United Nations general uses the word 'nigger'.

• Intense Scenes

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  In the beginning, Interahamwe leader Georges Rutaganda sees one of his workers dropping a crate full of machetes, foreshadowing the genocide.

  Many intense moments of helpless people being threatened by armed attackers.

  Many scenes where characters see dead bodies.

  A man is almost forced to shoot his family and neighbors to death as punishment for lying.

  The subject matter is deeply disturbing and haunting, especially since it is a true story.