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I will not clutter the web’s ether with another review of this movie, I’m sure it’s all been said more prolifically than anything I could ever write. Instead I’d rather shine some light on the soundtrack for the film.

The ending-credit song and the goosebumps it provoked is what made me immediately go out and buy it. The soundtrack as a whole is a great mix of instrumental and vocal.. and surprisingly it’s not as depressing as you’d expect. More thought provoking than depressing, I think.

My favorite is #3 “Million Voices” by Wyclef Jean. It opens with children singing “Ni dyar’izuba, rizagaruka hejuru yacu, ni nduzaricyeza” which translates to “when will the sun return above us, who will reveal it once again to us?” and it’s hauntingly beautiful. You can just picture the beautiful children standing together there singing it like it’s the last thing they can try to do. While I do like Wyclef, it’s really the children’s chorus and instrumentation that makes me put this song on repeat. #11 is also one of my favorites, “Ne me laisse pas seille ici” which is French for “don’t leave me here alone” I believe, though I’m a bit rusty at my French.

I definitely can’t get any of this movie or its music out of my head. I’m now attempting to significantly educate myself on Darfur so that I’m not just another person who disregards all feelings provoked by this film and doesn’t put them to any use… to once again quote one of my favorites by MLK, “A time comes when silence is betrayal.” We were silent once before and look what happened. A truly civilized society would end that silence.