“Who do you think buys the stones I bring out? Dreamy American girls who all want a storybook wedding and a big, shiny rock, like the ones in the advertisements of your politically-correct magazines.”So please don’t come here and make judgments on me, alright? I provide a service. The world wants what we have and they want it cheap. We’re in business together.”- Diamond smuggler Danny Archer
Blood Diamond tells the intersecting stories of three individuals caught up in the brutal civil war in Sierra Leone in 1999. Leonardo DiCaprio plays an ex-mercenary turned smuggler who will do anything to obtain a rare and priceless diamond. Djimon Hounsou plays a peaceful Mende fisherman whose world is ripped apart when rebel forces brutalize his village and force his young son to become a soldier. And Jennifer Connelly plays an American journalist determined to unmask the dark truth about the diamond trade.
Blood Diamond powerfully depicts the unbearable anguish of parents as their children are torn away, the fear and confusion of child soldiers terrorized into committing brutal acts and the frustration of a journalist begging an indifferent world to pay attention. The movie exposes how the violence and suffering of the civil war were fueled and funded by the illicit diamond trade. And it challenges privileged and comfortable Westerners to educate ourselves about the consequences of our economic choices.
03-30-2007 |
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