The film is presented in the form of a documentary, and of course from the perspective of a white Western man who claims to be truly liberal and democratic. Regardless of whether the values, national views, and even moral values reflected in the film are right or wrong or different, just from the point of view of human indifference and cruelty to the same human life, the film is enough to shock the heart.
Rwandan ethnic hatred stems from deliberate provocation under Western colonial rule, perhaps out of national strategy or out of colonial means, the so-called Hutu and Tutsi are divided by Westerners according to their appearance, and they are deliberately trying to win one side and suppress one side. So with time, this way of provoking the masses to fight the masses has deeply portrayed hatred in the bones of different "races". At a certain critical point, with the acquiescence of some upper interest, the Negroes of the same land raised their machetes to another group of Negroes... Of course, according to past historical experience, when the West creates conflicts, it is also necessary to resolve conflicts with a high profile, and finally bring "peace" under the framework of western interests.
At the beginning of the story, the background is explained in the form of words...
The English name of the film is "shooting dogs", which literally translates to "Hound Dog". However, I prefer Chinese translation of "Killing Forbidden Zone" to better reflect the meaning of "beyond the gates".
At the beginning of the film, it is a close-up, a pair of little girl's feet are running non-stop... The little girl ran into a gate. It was a school, and the presence of peacekeepers made it more peaceful and more like a paradise. Everything is so peaceful, everyone chats, reads, works, busy... People care for each other and are friendly. The young white teacher is excited about the little girl's new long-distance running record
Each character in this film represents an attitude and a choice. Each choice affects the character's future destiny.
From the beginning to the end, ran out of her own future little girl.
The school's faculty, an enlightened Hutu youth.
An old priest who preached in Africa for many years
Young teachers teaching in Africa
As the days go by, the atmosphere created by the film becomes heavier and heavier. Everything seems to have changed, and everything seems to be preparing for change... Preparing, planning, waiting...
A white journalist seems to have found out, but can't figure out why.
The live broadcast of the night ball game quickly dispelled a haze, but many things happened
Soon, the silence of the night was shattered by the occasional sound of gunfire. Peacekeepers also closed their doors and alerted them. Many Tutsis flocked to the school, hoping to get shelter here. Ignoring the objections of the peacekeeping forces, the old priest opened the door to accept the Tutsi crowd who asked for help.
The crowd was helpless, and the young teacher asked the faculty.
Large numbers of Tutsis poured into the school, after all, there were peacekeepers. However, the peacekeepers refused to ask for help from local officials.
Fear kept growing, and people didn't feel safe. Young teachers and journalists went outside to look for food, but they encountered militia and saw death up close for the first time.
After witnessing a machete chop a Tutsis alive, the white teacher was almost desperate. At this time, the Hutu teachers appeared and rescued them. But the young teacher's eyes were full of machetes carried by the teachers, and there were blood stains on them...
There was a shortage of medical treatment at school, and the old god father went out to look for medicine. Outside the school gate is a purgatory-like scene.
All the Tutsis were trembling all the time, and as long as they left here and walked out of this gate, there would only be death... The old priest appeased everyone with his faith...
The peacekeepers were informed that they must leave the school and leave Rwanda without taking a black man. Desperate Tutsi people begged the peacekeepers to shoot them before they left, so that they could die with their families in a dignified manner, to avoid being chopped to pieces with machetes...
The young white teacher reneged on his vow to be with the children and fled.
The old priest resolutely chose to stay, and he knew very well what his choice meant.
The French peacekeepers finally left after firing their guns to drive away the Tutsi crowd...
The old priest decided to use the school truck to secretly send the Tutsi children away
As the old priest drove away, soon, the slaughter began again
But on the way to leave, the old priest was stopped, so that the children could escape, the old priest kept delaying the time until he was killed by the militia...
In the picture, the escaped Tutsi girl is still running. It wasn't for breaking records, it was for the hope of leaving hell and running for life...
In the face of the situation in Rwanda, the international community has its own evaluation ... Remember questioning the White House spokesman
According to the White House, "It's not a genocide..."
We are accustomed to this kind of face of the "international community"; we are accustomed to the "double standard" of evaluating things...
In just one hundred days of that year, more than eight hundred thousand people were recorded to have been slaughtered, and the actual number must have exceeded one million.
5 years later, the little girl met the guilty teacher again. The little girl taught the teacher the meaning of life
The film is taken from a true story. Tell us what happened that year at that time and in that land...