Blood Diamond (2006)

Spoiler The film is based on events that occurred during the Sierra Leone Civil War in 1999. The war was primarily between the government and violent radical rebels. Some of the more disturbing scenes show the rebels cutting of people s hand in effort to stop them from voting. One of the men who almost got their hand cut off is Solomon Vandy (Djimon Hounsou). Luckily they felt he was able-bodied enough to mine for diamonds. He was captured by the rebels (Revolutionary United Front), torn away from his family and forced to be a slave in the diamond fields.

Solomon witnesses a slave attempt to steal a diamond and is shot in cold blood. The RUF rebels want the diamonds to fund their efforts in the civil war, so any missing diamond is money lost. Solomon finds a large diamond referred to as a “pink” because of its distinct color. The Captain see Solomon hide the diamond but is injured in a government attack before he can kill Solomon. In the meantime, the brainwashing of children by the RUF is occurring around the country. The RUF begins recruiting child soldiers, one of which is Solomon Vandy s son.

Leonardo DiCaprio plays Danny Archer, a white Australian mercenary from Zimbabwe. He is in the business of trading guns for diamonds. He makes a trade with an RUF commander for diamonds but it caught smuggling them into Liberia. While in prison he hears overhears that Solomon Vandy has hidden a large diamond. Archer arranges for Solomon to be released from prison offers to help him find his missing family in return for the location of the diamond.

Danny Archer soon meets an American journalist named Maddy Brown (Jennifer Connelly). She is there investigating the war the blood diamond trade. Archer uses Brown to find the location of Solomon s family in return for valuable journalistic information. The three of them pretend to be journalists to join a convoy heading towards the diamond. Soon the convoy is attacked and Archer and Vandy must venture by foot to the diamond fields where their treasure waits them.

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