Blood Diamond

The movie titled Blood Diamond is about the story of diamond trade in Africa – Liberia during the civil war of the 1990’s. Africa, at that time was rich with diamonds that people were hunting for. Two hero’s were presented in the movie; Solomon Vandy (Djimon Hounsou), a village fisher man dreaming of his son going to college, and Danny Archer (Leonardo DiCaprio) who is a former mercenary fetching for diamonds in Africa.

Danny, a young businessman who seeks his way to wealth was searching for Diamonds in Africa to achieve his dreams, However, he was captured on the Liberian borders. Solomon, on the other hand, was facing rebels attack in his village and was captured and became a slave, and was sent to prison later on. Before Solomon was sent to prison though, he found a rare huge Diamond that he kept and secretly hid.

In prison, Danny was released before Solomon. Then Danny heard that Solomon knew the way to the pink Diamond. Therefore, Danny got Solomon out of prison, and asked him of the diamonds location. Solomon refused to lead him to the diamond unless they make an agreement. Solomon was ready to lead the white man Danny to the pink Diamond in order for Danny to help him find his wife and his children. This was difficult because at the time, Solomon’s son was taken hostage by the rebels and was brain washed to kill other innocent villagers.

After many obstacles, Danny was able to find Solomon’s family and in return, Solomon rewarded him with what he promised; the pink Diamond.

I would like to conclude that the movie showed a lot of suffering, and death scenes that captured people’s hearts. I think that the main message behind the movie was to show how greed for wealth affects people and makes them capable of doing many terrible things to each other. Although the movie was about the search for diamonds, it showed another side to the story, Solomon’s family. Solomon found a diamond that was priceless; however, the only thing that mattered to him was finding his wife and son and being re-united with them and the price for that was exchanging this precious diamond for his family.