Blood Diamond

For my next post, I will be breaking down the movie Blood Diamond.  As you may be able to tell by now, I am a pretty big Leonardo DiCaprio fan.  This movie is another movie that is based on a true story, which makes it that much more emotional.  A civil war is taking place in Sierra Leone in the year 1999.  A group of rebels come in and raid a town in Africa that is at peace.  A fisherman is separated from his son and they are both put to work.  The son is roughly 10 years old, and the rebels are brain washing him along with other young African boys to be child soldiers.  They are forced to kill, work, and they are even given drugs.  Meanwhile, the boys father is now a slave for the rebels and is mining for diamonds in the lakes and hillsides of Sierra Leone.  Some men at the work camp try to steal the diamonds and they are shot in the head.  Right about this time, the fisherman reaches down and finds one of the biggest diamonds ever and hides it between his toes under the muddy water.  The rebel leader suspects something and searches him, but finds nothing.  He then goes to the bathroom and catches the fisherman hiding it, but then a U.S. air strike comes in and chaos occurs.  The fisherman eventually gets out and sells the diamond.  I enjoyed this film very much and the producers and actors did an amazing job with it.  Really made me aware of the situation and even feel like I was there witnessing it first hand.