Trees of Peace

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I was holding back tears even through the trailer. I learned so much from this heart wrenching film about the Rwandan Genocide and wish it could be required viewing for everyone. Such a tragic and senseless event that occurred so recently in human history, and like so many others, left out of the school books. A powerful story brought to life by the amazing actors. A must-see!!!

Great Movie Great cast, love the story love the way it was produce keep you in suspension all through the story. Bravo Bravo!!! Them ladies was brave, knowing that was a true story makes it even more fun to watch.

After reading some of the numerous 10-star reviews, I decided to watch this movie. I however was unable to recognize any of the glorifying reviews when I watched this movie. The movie may be based on a true story, but it seems to be a 10-minute story that was stretched out in a feature length movie. The first 5 minutes of the movie were thereby attractive, but after that the story became a slowgoing and very predictable one. So slowgoing, that watching it at 1.5x speed was not even sufficient in it keeping my attention. At 20 minutes in the movie I could not do different than stopping the effort. Since I do not take such a decision lightly, I forwarded the movie to a point just before the end, but it was the same all-over: dull and predictable. Contrary to a glorifying review, I can therefore not do otherwise than give this movie a 1-star rating. From an outlet of the likes of Netflix, I really expect more. This movie is most certainly not a worthwile addition to the libarary of movies that try to explain what occured during the Rwanda genocide.

I echo comments of others on the breadth and complexity of emotion that is fantastically captured in this film, based on such a brutal and inhuman catastrophe. I would also like to congratulate and applaud the amazing filmmaking team that could skillfully paint such a vivid and emotionally complex tapestry, within the confines of a wooden box no less. Bravo.

This powerful film based on true events is set during the Rwandan genocide and tells the story of 4 women who must overcome unimaginable circumstances in order to survive. Through vastly different backgrounds they fight to keep their sanity while navigating a claustrophobic environment. The women must learn to trust one another and work together if they have any hope of escaping their situation alive. While brutal and gutwrenching in its storytelling at times, the film has plenty of moving moments that demonstrate the power of love and forgiveness. Moving portrayals of these women through some very amazing and talented actors.

The backdrop of the Rwandan genocide gives an emotional load to any film you'd make and the actresses make the most of this movie but its not great. They are sometimes overhearing obviously fake dialogues to increase the emotional tension. In the end its four women in a basement making one dumb decision after another without getting caught. After sitting through this you dont even hear what happened after because these characters are not "based on real life". The hero in this story is the husband bringing Them food continuously despite it being a movie about female strength. In the end if you want to watch a good movie on the topic watch hotel Rwanda or the killing fields (i know different genocide). Those are much better with real emotional development and dialogues that are worth watching.

This movie is a rare gem in many ways; the acting, directing, story, cinematography and editing. Captures your from the beginning to the end. I could not step away, its a MUST SEE!

This film has a powerful story behind it, the crying parts hut home because you see the hurt! It reminds me of my little island, the Dominican Republic! Thank you for this movie! Now into the filmmaking it's self! The camera angles are important, the low angles to show how the scenes are powerful and overtaken from the bad guys was important and a great call! The actors were amazing and were invested in their roles! I don't want to give anything away but wow congratulations!! The ending what a surprise. Please watch it and really put your filmmaking hat on and watch it then tell me I'm wrong.... I'm not lol! Ps. I know the work behind it and seeing it on Netflix is inspiring!!!

It's emotional and inspirational movie ever I have watched... There are many inspirational movies but are underrated... We should encourage them. Hollywood need to make many movies on ethnic cleansing and genocide. Ethnic cleansing in Myanmar and in Bosnia and many other places one should make movies and emotional journey of black people in slavery and how the life changed them while slavery and hunger, poor natural disasters in Africa and many small and poor countries one should make movies on them...