Monday, March 17, 2008

Blood Diamond: the movie


The story of the movie happened in parts of Africa, diamond mining fuels civil war, killing thousands of innocents and turning children to bloody soldiers. Danny Archer, a white African soldier,turned to a diamond smuggler who gets attached to a large jewel found by Solomon Vandy, a native fisherman. Danny offers a deal: He will help Vandy find his family if Vandy will share the diamond with him. Maddy Bowen, a journalist who they met during this chaos, agrees to help if Danny will tell her the details of how conflict diamonds are handed to the corporations who sell them to the world. Danny ends up doing the good thing instead of his personal greed he was perusing. In the end, Danny had sacrificed his own life to a good cause, which was reuniting a man with his family forgetting all his desires and wants. Maddy, helped to unveil the truth about the organizations that uses conflict diamonds with the help of Solomon. About Solomon, he moved his life from the destruction that was in Africa to London.
My reaction about the movie that it was a very interesting and useful movie. I didn’t know that Africa suffers a lot because of a material thing like diamonds. In my opinion, the actors have played the part very well and the proof is that some of the cast got nominated to an Oscar. What I didn't like about the movie is the ending, they shouldn't have killed Danny. A part of that, the movie was amazing. I really enjoyed watching. We should do that more often.

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