Review of Sometimes in April

I meant to comment on this film some time ago, particularly back in March when I had first seen this film, as I looked forward to it. The film stars Idris Elba, an actor I've grown to respect after watching him disappear into the role of drug dealing Stringer Bell in HBO's The Wire. I say disappear because I am well aware of the fact that he is a brit and he also disappears into his role in this film as well. Sometimes In April is very in-depth as far as the time period and holds nothing back. I really respected the fact that the writers make the viewer realize that this tragedy was overlooked by the suicide of Kurt Cobain and the beginning of the strike in Major League Baseball. Another thing that earned this movie points was the fact that Raoul Peck was bold enough to film this in the actual home of the genocide in Rwanda, a country that seems to get lost in the middle of the Dark Continent. The movie speaks out loud what an ugly thing black-on-black violence really is as is the interracial prejudice that drove one group of people to kill another, weaker group of people of the same color and of the same continent and of the same nationality. The understory is also just as powerful as we see a family divided by this futile war. The tone of the film really makes you feel sorry for these people caught in this quagmire and you really pray that they make it out...