I watched this movie on a local cable station last night. What a brilliant performance depicting a sad reality. In some ways like Schindler’s List offering some rays of hope on a very dark day. I always liked Don Cheadle and feel this was the best and fullest performance  I’ve seen him in. Don is not one of my favorite black actors, he’s one of my favorite actors that happen to be black. The saddest line in the movie was uttered by Nick Nolte’s UN Peace keeper character attempting to illustrate the level of despair in the Rwandan genocide, “You people aren’t even niggers, just Africans.” Sad how TV, movies and the media in general has desensitized us to tragedy and human suffering: feel bad for a minute, change the channel and order some Domino’s.

Don’t know what it takes to make people care-probably only affecting them on their doorstep. If you haven’t seen Hotel Rwanda I highly reccomend it. There were several excellent performances besides Cheadle’s. The woman that played his wife and a couple of others all quite good.