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Sometimes in April

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Sometimes in April	comment	Sometimes in April is a 2005 HBO historical drama film about the Rwandan Genocide of 1994, written and directed by the Haitian filmmaker Raoul Peck. The ensemble cast includes Idris Elba, Oris Erhuero, Carole Karemera, Debra Winger, Noah Emmerich, and Pamela Novemte.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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Sometimes in April / int_12dd1d4c	type	Rape as Drama
Sometimes in April / int_12dd1d4c	comment	Rape as Drama: On scene involves a woman testifying in court about a priest who let soldiers gang rape her and numerous other women and girls who had been entrusted to him, in the presence of her infant son. This is also the horrific fate that Jeanne had to endure before committing suicide.
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Sometimes in April / int_14beeefd	type	Darker and Edgier
Sometimes in April / int_14beeefd	comment	Darker and Edgier: Compared to Hotel Rwanda, 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).
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Sometimes in April / int_1e7159cf	type	Propaganda Machine
Sometimes in April / int_1e7159cf	comment	Propaganda Machine: Honoré Butera works for RTLM, a radio station infamous for hateful propaganda against Tutsis.
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Sometimes in April / int_2eb94abd	type	Deadly Euphemism
Sometimes in April / int_2eb94abd	comment	Deadly Euphemism: "Going to work" is used as euphemism for "going to kill Tutsis."
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Sometimes in April / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
Sometimes in April / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: 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 including Augustin’s daughter
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Sometimes in April / int_479d4e5a	type	Would Hurt a Child
Sometimes in April / int_479d4e5a	comment	Would Hurt a Child: Thousands were massacred, including Augustin's children.
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Sometimes in April / int_53c47260	type	You Monster!
Sometimes in April / int_53c47260	comment	You Monster!: Inverted as Martine tells her frightened students, including Anne-Marie, to go to their dormitories and the boarding school's priest tells her that they are in a difficult position but they must do their duty; they must not harbor rebels. Shocked, Martine calls him out, pointing out that these are not rebels but students whom he promised to protect, but he shuts her down, pointing out that they cannot protect all the girls and that he does not have the power to change the situation. As a stunned Martine leaves, he tells her, "We must pray."
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Sometimes in April / int_6439de78	type	Heroic Sacrifice
Sometimes in April / int_6439de78	comment	Heroic Sacrifice: Jeanne, 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.
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Sometimes in April / int_64e975cf	type	Manly Tears
Sometimes in April / int_64e975cf	comment	Manly Tears: 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 his daughter Anne-Marie is dead. His brother Honore is seen weeping while cradling the lifeless bodies of his nephews and when he reveals to Augustin the fates of his wife and sons after Honore departed with them.
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Sometimes in April / int_6d332aea	type	Driven to Suicide
Sometimes in April / int_6d332aea	comment	Driven to Suicide Augustin's wife Jeanne commits suicide with a grenade after being raped by soldiers, taking some of them with her.
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Sometimes in April / int_71e8a5c5	type	Trauma Conga Line
Sometimes in April / int_71e8a5c5	comment	Trauma Conga Line: Augustin during the genocide. See the tropes above for more details.
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Sometimes in April / int_8cb01d0e	type	Category Traitor
Sometimes in April / int_8cb01d0e	comment	Category Traitor: 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.
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Sometimes in April / int_95c2a9dd	type	Outliving One's Offspring
Sometimes in April / int_95c2a9dd	comment	Outliving One's Offspring: 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.
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Sometimes in April / int_a1b141f4	type	My God, What Have I Done?
Sometimes in April / int_a1b141f4	comment	My God, What Have I Done?: Butera's responsible for propaganda against Tutsis on the radio, but he's seen weeping when his sister-in-law and nephews fall victim to the genocide he propagated and sobs "fucking savages!"
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Sometimes in April / int_a969c74a	type	Final Solution
Sometimes in April / int_a969c74a	comment	Final Solution: The genocide as carried out by the Hutus carry on the Tutsis.
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Sometimes in April / int_de56f2bf	type	Would Be Rude to Say "Genocide"
Sometimes in April / int_de56f2bf	comment	Would Be Rude to Say "Genocide": The representative of the U.S. State Department consistently refused to call it "genocide,” instead referring to the events as “acts of genocide.”
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Sometimes in April / int_eb8f64a6	type	No Good Deed Goes Unpunished
Sometimes in April / int_eb8f64a6	comment	No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: 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 almost all of them are killed. Anne-Marie later dies of her injuries.
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