A movie that follows two classic plot lines of "boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy gets girl". All of this is set against the civil unrest and war atrocities around the Diamond Trade in Sierra Leone. The first is of Danny Archer played by Leonardo DiCaprio and the second is Solomon Vandy played by Djimon Hounsou. The Archer character was shallow and poorly written. I wished that the main character had been Solomon Vandy and Archer had been the supporting role. The movie was very enlightening in portraying the human condition and the horrors of the diamond trade. I am pretty certain that the movie was fiction but I do not know how much of the horrors were based on the true horrors that occurred in Sierra Leone during its civil war in the 1990s. It did peak my interest to find out more about the region.
Sunday, October 14, 2007
Blood Diamond (Released December 6, 2006)
A movie that follows two classic plot lines of "boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy gets girl". All of this is set against the civil unrest and war atrocities around the Diamond Trade in Sierra Leone. The first is of Danny Archer played by Leonardo DiCaprio and the second is Solomon Vandy played by Djimon Hounsou. The Archer character was shallow and poorly written. I wished that the main character had been Solomon Vandy and Archer had been the supporting role. The movie was very enlightening in portraying the human condition and the horrors of the diamond trade. I am pretty certain that the movie was fiction but I do not know how much of the horrors were based on the true horrors that occurred in Sierra Leone during its civil war in the 1990s. It did peak my interest to find out more about the region.
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