Blood Diamond

I picked Blood Diamond as my movie to watch for extra credit. This movie is about a man who lives in poor country called Sierra Leone. The main characters name is Solomon, the rebels invade the village he lives in. He is then captured and forced to work in a diamond mine. He meets a man named Danny that offers to help him find his family if he will give him the diamond or give part of the money he receives for it over to him. They go thru a long journey together to find Solomons family,but in the end Solomon is reunited with his family and Danny gets that second chance that he didn't think he would get.

While I watched this movie, it reminded me of some of the things we have been talking about in history. It talked about rebels, blood diamonds of course, and young children being forced into killing there own people by getting brainwashed into it. It really covered many of the bases of our discussions in class over the past few weeks. I find it very upsetting about how hard it really is for people in the poor third world nations going thru struggles like this. It really shows the conflicts between humans in this word and the people that are mistreated that really do not deserve that cruelty.

This changed my way of thinking about this history in many ways. This movie was based on a story that was in the 1900s, which was not to long ago. It is strange to me that we can be living peacefully over here in the United States and there can be people that are living in absolutely horrible conditions in the world. It really makes me want to reach out and help these people. I experienced the same feeling from watching this movie as I did when I was watching War Dance.

I really enjoyed this movie, I thought it did a very nice job of describing the hard times of the people in these war stricken nations. It also makes me more aware of the struggles those innocent people go thru and how easy I have it. It also makes me thankful for what I have here in America. While I was watching this movie, I found it to be very moving. You really see how hard these people struggled to find their families and how cruel people can be to one another. Over all this truly was a great movie and I would recommend it to people.