Shake Hands with the Devil

Shake Hand with the Devil, a true Canadian film based off of the story of general Romeo Dallaire's persistence to help end the 1994 Genocide in Rwanda. The film premiered in 2007, but was based originally from the book of the same title. The film stars Roy Dupuis who played an excellent reenactment of Gen. Romeo Dallaire. 

Throughout the film, it held many elements which assisted in contributing to the power and message this movie was trying to send across. 

Personally I did enjoy this film, but definitely not as much as I enjoyed Hotel Rwanda. I found this specific film to base itself too much off of the government's point of view, as suppose to the people. Contrary to majority opinion I found this movie did not grab enough of the audiences emotions, and made it seem more as a biography on what the Canadians did to help the genocide from continuing.

Although, I have to admit this movie was definitely amazing, with strong actors, scripts and very real settings. The acting, and how the people portrayed the actual victims was very well done, and must receive credit for that. 

I without a dout do believe that this movie portrayed the overall genocide very real, and very raw. Specifically the scene where the woman slips, and only after realized she had slipped in blood does it become real that this horrendous event is taking place right in front of the worlds eyes. 

Shake Hands with the Devil did an excellent job in portraying the genocide, while still showing how the world looked, and took very little interest in what was truly going on.