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Shooting Dogs
Drama, History
Two westerners, a priest and a teacher find themselves in the middle of the Rwandan genocide and face a moral dilemna. Do they place themselves in danger and protect the refugees, or escape the country with their lives? Based on a true story.
View on IMDbAppeals to viewers seeking an emotionally devastating, morally serious account of atrocity that confronts complicity, courage, and the limits of humanitarian intervention.
- Tone
- bleak, dread, melancholic
- Payoff
- heartbreak, reflection
- Pacing
- steady
- Intensity
- harrowing
- Structure
- linear
- Themes
- genocide, moral responsibility, faith, colonial legacy, human solidarity
- Setting
- late twentieth-century civil conflict, besieged religious school and surrounding city