Documentary: Roger Genocide Baby Breakdown

Question 1

Year of production

Answer 1

2010

Question 2

Author / Producer

Answer 2

Nick Andrews

Question 3

Ideas Presented

Answer 3

Forgiveness

Reconciliation

Question 4

Key features of construction

Answer 4

Flashbacks & retrospect, progression in time, chronological order and constructed in a way that it flashbacks and recalls events in the past.

Complex structure

Done this to walk the path and travel backwards in time to understand what occurred in Rwanda

Travelling forward to understand forgiveness and reconciliation

Question 5

Quotes:

Answer 5

“Cockroaches have been exterminated” “ Let us rejoice friends” “God is never wrong”.

“ If I was angry all my life, I would be making those who made me an orphan happy”.

“I hate to say it, but I’d love to see them in body bags.” compared to, “I forgive those who killed my father.”,

“In England, I speak the language but I kind of feel left out. Then I came here, and I still feel left out.”,
- show how Roger’s sociocultural context finds him confused in where he feels like he belongs, caught between English and Rwandan cultures, whether to adopt Rwandan attitude of forgiveness, or be influenced by his English upbringing