Hotel Rwanda Themes

I think the Mission is a superb movie to watch and has all the factors to a great movie. The movie takes place in South America in the 18th century. Two extraordinary powers are going after the hearts and brains of the local Indians. From one perspective, there are the Portuguese, who need to set up an exchange of wealth and slaves. Then again, there are the Priest, who need to convert the Indians to Christians. The missionaries are an ideal societies in which Christian natives will live in harmony with the Spanish and Portuguese. The main theme of this story is the power of friendship and redemption. The movie has shown these two important themes through various ways. The Guaraní Indians is a great example of the theme of redemption. Christian
The power of friendship was portrayed by the bond between the Guaraní Indians and the priests on the mission. Even though they lost at the end of the battle, they worked together to create battle strategies that will help them decrease the number of soldiers in their army. Last year I saw the movie Hotel Rwanda and it shown the same attributes like The Mission. Even though these two movies were in different time periods the theme hope and friendship carried over. In Hotel Rwanda, the hotel manager was the only hope for the refugee Hutu’s. In the Mission the Guaraní Indians hope to live in their current home and not move back to their forest. The director uses lights to reflect the beauty of Iguazu Falls and to paint a picture of the lifestyle back then. In one scene Mendoza climbs the waterfall and has a heavy bag of armor and swords tied to him. The bag represents his old life and all the terrible qualities. As Mendoza climbed to the top of the waterfall the bag was cut off showing that he is leaving his old habits and life. Robert De Niro and the whole acting cast really brought all their characters to life. When watching the movie, you can really feel that you are in that