Nightmare Fuel / Hotel Rwanda

• The movie's opening is happy and optimistic. Then when Paul goes to Rutaganda's warehouse, one of the workmen accidentally drops a box to reveal hundreds of machetes inside. The music in the background suddenly turns sinister and Paul and his driver look worried and scared. On the contrary, Rutaganda proudly tells Paul that he bought the machetes from China for a good price. Now considering what the machetes will be used for...
• Paul and Dube are driving back to the hotel when they have to pull over because of a Hutu Power rally. One of the demonstrators recognizes Dube, luckily Paul is able to convince them that they are Hutu before things escalate.
• One of Paul's neighbors being accused of being a Tutsi spy and violently arrested while Paul and Tatiana powerlessly watch.
• Paul's son disappears during the night because he was worried about his friend next door. They find him hiding in the bushes, alive but covered in blood. The next morning Paul sees the friend and his family's bodies lying on the front lawn.
• Paul being forced to pick between either being shot himself or killing all of the civilians that he was driving, including his wife and children, by a Hutu militant. He very narrowly avoids it by bribing the soldier.
• The pure, virulent hate being spewed by the Hutu Power radio station throughout the movie. A horrifying example of Truth in Television.
  George Rutaganda: "Cut the tall trees. Cut the tall trees now!"
  • The real radio broadcasts, available for listening on Youtube, are much more disturbing, especially the part where the DJ starts singing to praise the slaughter.
  Come and rejoice friends / Cockroaches are no more / Come and rejoice friends / God is merciful...
  If we exterminate all the cockroaches, nobody will judge us because we will be the winners...
• The fact that the UN does nothing to stop it... and that it's Truth in Television.
  Jack: "I think if people see this footage, they'll say 'Oh my God, that's horrible'. And then they'll go on eating their dinners."
• This horrifying exchange when Paul visits Rutaganda again:
  Rutaganda: Soon, all the Tutsis will be dead.
  Paul: You do not honestly believe that you can kill them all?
  Rutaganda: And why not? Why not? We are halfway there already.
• The Tutsi women that are being kept in a cage by the Interahamwe at Rutaganda's.
  • In the same scene, all the women caged look totally scared. We never know what their fate might be.
  • Paul, seeing the women, looks very terrified and sad as the same time. Rutaganda on the contrary simply assures Paul that they're just "Tutsi prostitutes and witches."
• The scene where Paul finds that the bumpy road he was driving on was actually bumpy because it was covered in corpses.
• The fact that the violence you see throughout the film is actually downplayed according to the real Paul Rusesabagina speaks volumes of what the real thing was like.
• In a marketing example, most of the film's more modern posters◊ depict Paul and the film's other main figures in a more abstract yet beautiful setting. This is signifantly toned down from the much more disturbing original posters, which showed the characters reflected in the blade of a machete.

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