Blood Diamonds is one movie that really opened my eyes. A sobering, very real look at civil unrest in Western Africa, an area that has not gained the media expose it’s due. This movie shines a spotlight on the plight of the African people who are forced to live their lives amidst a very brutal civil war. The value of human life is clearly lost in the race for power and money, as throughout the movie men and women are brutally gunned down without much reason.
Blood Diamond follows the story of a South African mercenary involved in the diamond trade as he attempts to retrieve a rare pink diamond hidden by a local fisherman within a militia stronghold in Sierra Leone. Leonardo DiCaprio is fantastic, flanked by the buxom Jennifer Connelly and Dijmon Hounsou. The script is phenomenal and the visuals memorable. It was shocking to me to actually watch as young boys were transformed into killers by military rebels running what amounted to a heavily armed Boy Scout troop. To see human lives treated with such cold disregard, gave me that gut check on how precious life really is. I keep seeing those young boys clenching their eyelids closed as they pull the trigger ... the recoil of the gun causing shots to fly in all directions, and splattering the lives of so many all over the ground. Shocking ...
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