Blood Diamond: A thrilling adventure

Blood Diamond is a 2006political thriller film co-produced and directed byEdward Zwick and starringLeonardo DiCaprio, Jennifer Connelly and Djimon Hounsou.

In 1999 Mende fisherman Solomon Vandy (Djimon Hounsou) was captured by the Revolutionary United Front (RUF) rebels during a raid and subsequent massacre of his village in Shenge, Sierra Leone.

Instead of cutting off his hands, the rebels put him to work as a miner in the diamond fields under the command of warlord Captain Poison (David Harewood), while his son Dia (Kagiso Kuypers) is conscripted into the RUF and brainwashed into becoming a hardened,
cold-blooded, killer.

 Captain Poison uses the diamonds to fund their war effort, often trading them directly for automatic weapons. One day, Solomon recovers an enormous pink diamond while working.

Attempting to keep it for himself, he buries it in a nearby riverbank, unobserved by the guards. An infuriated Poison discovers the truth but before he can act on this knowledge, the Sierra Leonean Army assaults the mines. 

Vandy, the captain, and most of Poison’s fighters are captured and subsequently imprisoned in Freetown.

Meanwhile, Danny Archer (Leonardo DiCaprio), a white Rhodesian gunrunner(from today’s Zimbabwe), is arrested attempting to smuggle diamonds intoLiberia.

Archer had been transporting the diamonds to an Afrikanermercenary, Colonel Coetzee (Arnold Vosloo), his former commander in the32nd Battalion, the most decorated unit of the South African Border War.

Coetzee is in turn employed by Tiara Diamond Company executive Rudolph Van de Kaap (Marius Weyers) and his deputy, Rupert Simmons (Michael Sheen). While being held in the same Freetown prison as Solomon Vandy, Archer learns of the pink diamond’s existence.

What happens then is the big question which should only be answered once you decide to watch the film while relaxing in the living room. 

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Posted by Taha Habib on Dec 26 2011. Filed under Entertainment. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback to this entry