Thursday, 4 April 2013

Zahra's 5 links related to FF




Beyond the Gates

 
















This movie shows the start of the genocide in Rwanda in April 1994 the Hutu President of Rwanda airplane is crushed which resulted in death of the president.The Hutu accused the Tutsi and start to revenge for their president death by slaughter the Tutsi population. The main characters in the moviea young idealistic English teacher Joe Connor and Catholic priest  Christopher find themselves helping over two thousands and five hundred refugee of Tutsi . Joe and Christopher must choose between staying with the refugee who face the danger of been massacred any time or flee to a safety it’s the same choose that Paul Rusesabagina have to go through to save his family both  movie based on true story .
  
The Killing Field



Again this movie is also about the civil war in Cambodian which resulted in execution of  1,386,734 victims. The movie is based on the experiences of two journalists an American Sydney Schanberg , Cambodian Dith Pran the movie based on true story.


Schindler’s list

The name of the movie is taken from the main character surname Oskar Schindler  who was a German businessman, when he sees how the Nazi reign target the Jews he  turn his factory into a refuge. The film shows how the greedy arrogant businessman become humanitarian and manage to save 1100 Jews from being gassed at the Auschwitz concentration camp , based on true story

 

A Bright Shining Lie

The movie is about John Paul Vann  an ambitious military man who sees been sent to Vietnam as a steep stone to promotion till he finds out how the war is being run, its shows how Vann have to make the difficult choice between right and wrong  based on true story.

Black Hawk Down  
This is a different story it’s about the special force 123 elite U.S. soldiers, which been sent to Somalia to capture two of the warlord , I choose this movie because it shows how the U.S send a special force when there is an interest. Great movie though



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