Blood Diamond

Many weeks ago I could see Blood Diamond ,an American movie, on television. 

Blood Diamond is a film made by Edward Zwick and written by Charles Leavitt, also in the cast there are some well-known actors like Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Connelly. And this film was nominated for 5 oscars and won another important awards.

The title refers to blood diamonds, which are diamonds mined in war zones and sold to finance conflicts, and thereby profit warlords and diamond companies across the world.

It's based on Sierra Leone Civil War in 1996–2001(Actually, it's based on a real case), the film represents a country torn apart by the war between government and RUF,a group of violent insurgent forces. It also shows the horror of war: amputations, child carrying weapons, the misery...

It's 1999 and the population of Mende are horrified because RUF are enslaving them to search for diamonds. All starts with Solomon who is enslaved and moved to a river where RUF search diamonds. There, Solomon finds a blood diamond, which is very precious, and the man hides it to keep it but his plan goes wrong and he is captured with the other slaves and RUF militants.

In prison appears Danny Archer, a gunrunner jailed for his effort to keep smuggling diamonds to Liberia, there he hears about the hidden blood diamond and gets Solomon out of prison. When he is out Danny swears to Solomon to help him (When Solomon was captured he lost his family and he wants to find them).

Before this adventure starts Danny knows a reporter who will help them, and with her help they would find Solomon's family.

Not all is a bed of roses, Danny needs this blood diamond to run away, he can't just escape from Africa because his boss, an important corrupted South African, will kill him if Danny doesn't give to him the diamond.

Finally, Solomon find his child and his family but they were separated so he finds first his family with Maddy's (The reorter) and Danny's help, but he cannot stay with them because they were in a refugee camp. Solomon's son was with RUF they radicalized him, but somehow Solomon can make him remember who truly he is.

All was going okay until Danny's boss men attacked the RUF base when Danny, Solomon and Solomon's son were there (It should be noted that Danny rang his friend to bombard the base to create a distraction for search the diamond, but the distraction didn't work and Danny's boss men appeared)

(CAUTION SPOILER!)

In the end Danny and Solomon find the diamond but Danny, while they were fighting against his boss, became injured, even so he rang his mate because Solomon and his Son needed to return home but meanwhile Danny was protecting his friends he died, but minutes before his death he rang Maddy, who was outside Africa, and he told her that now she can publish the report about the diamond trade (a story that she had made during all the adventure searching Solomon's family).

Solomon travels to London for catch the leader of the diamond trade in London, after that he does a conference about his experiences.

I really like this type of films which mixes adventure and also looks at an injustice, also it was so good the way to address this issue.

Another reason I liked this film is because although it's a Hollywood movie it isn't so commercial and I think it reflects this conflict very well. And the final reason , of course, is Leonardo Dicaprio's presence!! Who doesn't love him?