I love to watch movies but this month I am engaged with a tv-show and that's why I am not able to watch the other movies.No problem, I am loving that show too. So, last night my nephew came to a sleepover at my house with me. So we thought of watching a movie together and got in hand "Blood Diamond" where we will see Leonardo DiCaprio and Djimon Hounsou and Jennifer Connelly as the leading actors. This movie is directed by Edward Zwick based on the plot of the civil war in Sierra Leone.
In Sierra Leone, a civil war broke out between the government and a revolutionary group. That created great havoc in that continent. Djimon Hounsou as Solomon Vandy, his family became the victim of that havoc. From here Vandy was separated from his family and was taken to mine diamonds which financed the expenses of that revolutionary group. His family fled from that place to save their lives. On the other hand, we got to see DiCaprio as Danny Archer, working as a smuggler. He smuggles weapons to that revolutionary group in exchange for those diamonds and Jennifer Connelly appears as a journalist.
That revolutionary group takes young boys and trains them to be their soldiers and the son of Soloman was also taken away to train him as one of them. On seeing those scenes I remembered another movie named "Cidade de deus-City of God". The cinematography in both films was close enough and those black young boys taking the weapons and killing the mass people gave the same vibe to me.
The story begins with a big piece of pink diamond, the biggest diamond so far which was found by Solomon Vandy while working there and he hid it somewhere before being taken away by the government forces. Danny learned that somehow and became eager to find that with the help of Solomon. And Jennifer's role as a journalist was to write an article about all the diamond smuggling there. So throughout the whole movie these three were helping and completing one another to gain their objectives. Solomon was to find and get reunited with his family, Danny was in the hope to get that diamond and leave that continent for a better life and Maddy(Jennifer) solve the mystery of these diamonds. The movie was full of action, thrill, and love. Love for the family, love for the son from a father. That moment when Solomon was saying that his son is a good student and he will be a doctor, that scene is still visible before my eyes.
In most of DiCaprio's movies I get to see some amazing endings. This one also stood with such one. I wasn’t able to guess anything of that sort would happen and it could end in such a beautiful way. Whatever, I enjoy these unpredictable things the most while watching thriller movies. So overall it was a great one to watch and I loved it a lot. I would like to rate it 8 out of 10.
