Last night I went to the movies to watch the movie Blood Diamonds starring Leonardo Dicaprio and after watching it I feel entirely different. The story of the movie is very compelling, it makes you really think about the reality of diamond trading. Blood Diamonds is filled with a great story, Love for two heteros and also a mans love for his family. If you go and watch this movie be ready for alot of graphic shots, and alot of crying. This movie In my greatest opinion is probably Leonardo's best work and he played in the character for every second of the movie.
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If you aren’t quite sure what a conflict, or “blood,” diamond is, they are stones that have been smuggled out of countries at war, which are then used as a way to pay for more arms, increasing the death toll and violence in the region. Back in the late ‘90s, at the height of the conflict diamond industry, only a small percentage of these gems got into the Western market, but it was still a very viable and profitable business. It has all been curtailed greatly since then--and Sierra Leone is currently at peace--but Blood Diamond is a way to remind us how precarious it still can be. Director Ed Zwick (The Last Samurai) hammers this home with vivid images of human cruelty and suffering. But unlike its counterpart Hotel Rwanda, which concentrated on one individual and how he dealt with the atrocities, there are actually too many angles to the Diamond story, too many messages. It diffuses the film’s impact and drags it down, rather than strengthen it. Still, the diamond industry might see a decline in sales.
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