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Blood Diamond: A Movie Review

Blood Diamond is set in the Sierra Leone Civil War in 1999, the film portrays a country torn apart by the struggle between government soldier and brutal rebel forces. Nominated for 5 Academy Awards [unfortunately it did not win a single award], this film is brutal, honest and thought provoking. Centered around the illegal trade of diamonds from Sierra Leone Africa, it paints a very disturbing view of how conflict diamonds, or blood diamonds, are "produced" and brought into the mainstream diamond market. The film quite is controversial taking the position that the large diamond houses, like De Beers, knowingly trade in conflict diamonds and partial were funding the rebel forces and the countries civil war. Since the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme was enacted in 2003, it has been reported that the trade of conflict diamonds has been reduced from 4% to 1% in world-wide sales. The dialog is hard to follow at times, Afrikaans spoken in several scenes and the thick accents when English is used, however I feel this is Leonardo DiCaprio's best work and Djimon Hounsou and Jennifer Connelly are excellent as well. This is a film that should not be missed and you may never look at a diamond the same way again.

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