Line #17 Film/SometimesInApril


1	''Sometimes in April'' is a 2005 Creator/{{HBO}} historical drama film about the Rwandan Genocide of 1994, written and directed by the Haitian filmmaker Creator/RaoulPeck. The ensemble cast includes Creator/IdrisElba, Creator/OrisErhuero, Creator/CaroleKaremera, Creator/DebraWinger, Creator/NoahEmmerich, and Creator/PamelaNovemte.
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3	The story centers around two Hutu brothers: Honoré Butera (Erhuero), who worked for the local Radio station and is currently on trial for war crimes during the genocide, and Augustin Muganza (Elba), a former captain of the Rwandan military, a husband, and father of three children. The film flashback to from the past chronicling the events before, during, and after the genocide to the present where Augustin is visiting his brother to inquire the fate of his family.
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6	!! Tropes used in the film:
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8	* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: Augustin's family and his Tutsi-sympathizer best friend, Xavier, were killed and his brother is imprisoned for war crimes]] but he has found love again and his girlfriend, Martine (who was a teacher at his daughters boarding school) is pregnant. The film ends with Martine testifying against the perpetrators who massacred her students[[spoiler: including Augustin’s daughter]]
9	* CategoryTraitor: Augustin has to separate from his wife and two sons and entrust them in the care of his brothers is because he is marked for death by Hutu extremists.
10	* DarkerAndEdgier: Compared to ''Film/HotelRwanda'', which is PG-13 and subtly implies the violence and this film were the violence is shown and is given a TV-MA (an equivalent to film's Rated R).
11	* DeadlyEuphemism: "Going to work" is used as euphemism for "going to kill Tutsis."
12	* DrivenToSuicide [[spoiler: Augustin's wife Jeanne commits suicide with a grenade after being raped by soldiers, taking some of them with her.]]
13	* FinalSolution: The genocide as carried out by the Hutus carry on the Tutsis.
14	* HeroicSacrifice: Jeanne, [[spoiler: after soldiers gang-rape her and several other women, gets hold of a grenade and holds the soldiers and complicit priest hostage to allow the other women to escape before she pulls the pin and kills herself and probably most of her rapists]].
15	* ManlyTears: Augustin sheds them throughout the movie during the various flashbacks and present times. He breaks down crying when he's in relative safety at the Hotel des Mille Collines and again when he finds out that [[spoiler: his daughter Anne-Marie is dead]]. His brother Honore is seen weeping [[spoiler: while cradling the lifeless bodies of his nephews]] and when he reveals to Augustin the fates of [[spoiler: his wife and sons]] after Honore departed with them.
16	* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Butera's responsible for propaganda against Tutsis on the radio, but he's seen weeping [[spoiler: when his sister-in-law and nephews fall victim to the genocide he propagated]] and sobs "[[PrecisionFStrike fucking savages]]!"
17	* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: When the militants arrive at the boarding school the girls, including Augustin’s daughter Anne-Marie, all agree not to separate from each other to distinguish between Hutu and Tutsi. Martine, shocked, warns them of the consequences of their actions and [[spoiler: almost all of them are killed. Anne-Marie later dies of her injuries.]]
18	* OutlivingOnesOffspring: [[spoiler: Augustin goes to the boarding school that his daughter, Anne-Marie, attended only to find out that she was killed. He also learns from his brother that his two sons, Yves-André and Marcus, along with his wife, Jeanne, and her sister, Félicie, were killed shortly after he parted ways from them]].
19	* PropagandaMachine: Honoré Butera works for RTLM, a radio station infamous for hateful propaganda against Tutsis.
20	* RapeAsDrama: On scene involves a woman testifying in court about a priest who let soldiers gang rape her [[spoiler: and numerous other women and girls who had been entrusted to him]], in the presence of her infant son. [[spoiler: This is also the horrific fate that Jeanne had to endure before committing suicide]].
21	* TraumaCongaLine: Augustin during the genocide. See the tropes above for more details.
22	* WouldBeRudeToSayGenocide: The representative of the U.S. State Department consistently refused to call it "genocide,” instead referring to the events as “acts of genocide.”
23	* WouldHurtAChild: Thousands were massacred, [[spoiler: including Augustin's children.]]

Context Film / SometimesInApril