Blood Diamond

An intense and gripping drama set against the chaotic civil war in Sierra Leone in the 1990s. The movie started with one of the main character, Djimon Hounsou as Solomon Vandy, he was waking his son up for school. Everyday, the son will walked 5km to his school to attend lessons.

But that day will be the last, as rebels attacked their village. Now I know 乱枪扫射 originate from where !!! This is the only one of the many scenes of such battles, whether between rebels and civilians, rebels and the government, etc.

The rebels acted as some kind of election will be going on. The rebels cannot force the civilians to vote for them, but they can make sure the civilians cannot vote for the goverment !! By chopping off their hands !! Hiong !

Solomon was spared as he looked strong enough to work in the diamond fields. Conflicts diamonds is the main item that strings the plots together. With that, he found a rare pink diamond which he managed to hide but just to allow a rebel saw him hidding the gem.

But he was lucky as an air raid disrupted that, all of them captured by the government and brought to prison. In there, Leonardo Di Carprio as Danny Archer, heard the conversation and knew of this rare gem.

Therefore, he got him out and begun their journey to retrieve this diamond. Each with his own agenda, Archer, a diamond smuggler wants the diamond for himself though he is entangled in the web of the syndicate and company involved in the conflict diamonds. Solomon just wants his family back.

Along the way, they met "Eye Candy", Jennifer Connelly as Maddy Bowen, a journalist who wanted to expose this exploitation of how this diamonds gets "legally" out of the country.

With her help, Solomon found his family but only to his disbelief, his son was captured by the rebels.

Archer and Maddy seems to have feelings for each other though only known for a very short while. Or maybe a certain kind of admiration for what each other was doing. Archer seemingly the bad guy that acts as the powerful middleman that gets all the conflicts diamonds out of the country, as usual is righteous and kind by heart.

In the end, they got the diamond but Archer has to die whom got a gunshot. No die no Nomination. Solomon and his son manged to escape with the help of Archer. Archer's last satelite call to Maddy who was back in New York set the mood for him to die, who was deem to belongs to Africa.

Moment of the movie :
For such an intense film, light hearted moments delights. A small talk conversation between Archer and Solomon goes like this.
Archer "Okay now, you have to pretend to be a cameraman. I am the journalist"
Solomon "No, I can't" *Looking damn serious*
Archer "Why not ?"
Solomon "Because I am not a cameraman" :)

8/10.