Blood Diamond
For a jaded chappie like me watching war torn landscapes and people makes no difference.
Blood Diamond does not dwell on the war per se but rather on an indirect cause of the war that led to the term "conflict diamond" or "blood diamond".
It is not a documentary but it is quite thoroughly plausible and it should not be surprising if something very similar does not happen even today.
The most brutal aspect of this movie is the conversion of children into AK47 wielding killing machines. The second most disturbing aspect, and the more disgusting, is a view of the diamond trade and of course how it panders to human vanity at the expense of human life elsewhere.
This is the first movie where I give Leonardo DiCaprio the title of "man" and revoke his former title of "pretty boy". I have seen his other movies where he tried to come out of that ridiculous Titanic image but it just did not work.
However, in Blood Diamond DiCaprio finally and actually acts. Perhaps it is the negativity and selfishness in his character that does it but something gives him an edge that would rob any male of his boyhood.
Jennifer Connelly is there looking as pretty as ever and marvelously portrays a frustrated journalist trying to nail the diamond trade but constantly being left with maimed bodies or bullet-ridden corpses.
But it is Djimon Hounsou that puts the soul into this movie. Right from the opening scene he puts on a powerful performance that is beyond the rest of the cast.
Personally, I think Blood Diamond is more worthy of an Academy Award than The Departed.
1 comments:
I AGREE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
it was so much better than departed!!
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