Blood Diamond review - As beautiful as a diamond
“A true epic” is one of the first few thoughts that crossed my mind when I saw “Blood Diamond”. Now I understand why it got nominated for 5 Academy Awards. I would’ve been more happy if it had won 5 awards. The key factor to a movie’s success is when it excels in all departments. If you notice in detail, only those kind of movies make it to the Oscars. Apart from our personal liking, this is how it is in Oscars. And moreover most of the successful movies portray true incidents. Blood diamonds and their true stories behind were totally unknown to many like me. To look at so many people suffer was so hurting. That’s when it really made me feel that I was wasting this safe happy life of mine doing nothing. Just imagine if you were born as one of those villagers who have their lives at stake every minute they breathe to escape from those butchers who were chopping other people’s hands to prevent them from voting ; and that included small children. That is were the movie begins in Sierra Leone with the capture of Solomon Vandy ( Djimon Hounsou ) and is separated from his family. Alongside this, Di Caprio ( Danny Archer ) comes to Sierra Leone to take away a precious pink diamond, worth a fortune. As the movie proceeds further, the condition worsens in Sierra Leone. Parallely Di Caprio meets Jenifer Connelly ( Maddy Bowen ) in a bar, who is a journalist tracking this story on Blood diamonds. The rest of the movie deals with how the three help each other, and does Djimon find his family, does Caprio finally get his pink diamond and does Jennifer capture the gory true story behind this. The climax made me really feel for them. Very touching. I’d say that’s the true success of a movie. Also all the actors have excelled in their performances. Caprio has left a mark for himself in this movie, which stays in your mind for a couple of days. He has done an excellent job and has always been this secret agent guy from the army in almost 3-4 of his films lately. Maybe it suits him well. Jennifer Connelly is ravishing & hot as ever. I’ve always been a die hard fan of her. So it was a treat watching her movie, lol.
Anyways, I think the one shouldering the whole movie’s success was Djimon Honsou. Man ! What an acting ? He should’ve got an Oscar for this role. I feel so bad he wasn’t given. The best acting from him is at the end of the movie, when he stands on stage looking at the people applauding at him. That’s what I call “ World class acting “. I felt so happy after watching a perfect movie which had awe inspiring cinematography , great editing , awesome music by James Howard and ( no words to describe ) direction by Edward Zwick. The soundtrack is awesome. Do listen to it. Edward has indeed gone to the next level with Blood Diamond. I’m looking forward to his next – “Defiance” with our dirty bond, Daniel Craig.
I can indeed assure you its success.
Anyways, I think the one shouldering the whole movie’s success was Djimon Honsou. Man ! What an acting ? He should’ve got an Oscar for this role. I feel so bad he wasn’t given. The best acting from him is at the end of the movie, when he stands on stage looking at the people applauding at him. That’s what I call “ World class acting “. I felt so happy after watching a perfect movie which had awe inspiring cinematography , great editing , awesome music by James Howard and ( no words to describe ) direction by Edward Zwick. The soundtrack is awesome. Do listen to it. Edward has indeed gone to the next level with Blood Diamond. I’m looking forward to his next – “Defiance” with our dirty bond, Daniel Craig.
I can indeed assure you its success.
Rating :
4/5
Trivia :
1.) De Beers Group, which is the largest player in the diamond trade, has expressed reservations that the film will reduce public demand for diamonds. De Beers maintains the trade in conflict diamonds has been reduced from 4% to 1% by the Kimberley Process and it has been suggested the company pushed for the film to contain a disclaimer saying the events are fictional and in the past. De Beers has totally denied this.
2.) According to Time Magazine, a computer generated tear was added to Jennifer Connelly’s face in the scene were she is conversing on a cell phone with Leonardo Dicaprio's character, at the end of the movie. Interesting no !!
1.) De Beers Group, which is the largest player in the diamond trade, has expressed reservations that the film will reduce public demand for diamonds. De Beers maintains the trade in conflict diamonds has been reduced from 4% to 1% by the Kimberley Process and it has been suggested the company pushed for the film to contain a disclaimer saying the events are fictional and in the past. De Beers has totally denied this.
2.) According to Time Magazine, a computer generated tear was added to Jennifer Connelly’s face in the scene were she is conversing on a cell phone with Leonardo Dicaprio's character, at the end of the movie. Interesting no !!
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