Impressive and great film behind these beautiful stones!

Rating: 9/10 (7 April 2007)

It's incredible when you see a film like this, specially after you have bought a diamond with a lot of economic effort and savings! It's touching how African people do to themselves for this stones, it's very sad. The message left by this film is deep, a great cinematography and absolutely great acting roles of Di Caprio and Hounsou makes this film a masterpiece to think about a deep social problem in Africa!. Di Caprio keeps mastering his acting, playing a difficult role of a mercenary that works for this dark business, and he has to show a hard, ambitious and poor of ethic character, and evolve to the opposite, finding ethics, courage and a good and human man. Hounsou acting is really impressive and the way he plays an African fisherman and father is so deep and focused, that i'm sure that he lived the role totally with his hearth!.
Solomon Vandy (Hounsou) a fisherman of Sierra Leona, see how the RUF, an revolutionary army involved in the diamond black business, attacks his village and separate him from his family, and made him work as a slave in a diamond mine, where he find a rare pink diamond. He manages to escape and hide the diamond, and finds Danny Archer (Di Caprio), a mercenary of Zimbabwe that sells guns to the revolutionaries and also traffic with these diamonds to Liberia. They both start a fiery quest to find Solomon's family and the pink diamond, they have to go to hostile villages and places to get both!.
In this story you will feel how a terrible war will take place in which men without heart (RUF), kill and mutilate innocent people, enlist kids, wash their brains, drug them and make them killers! all in the pursuit of diamonds, is sad how a country kill each others in the search of this material things! A message is clear in this film: the critic of this industry and the social problems in Africa, and also, that your people, your family, your life and peace are more valuable than any diamond or material thing in the world! In Colombia, my country a business around emeralds also had spilled a lot of blood too (in Boyaca), and this movie made me think about this too; we Colombians know about this but there isn't much things in the news.
Really touching movie in which Jennifer Conelly makes a great role too as a journalist with a great human heart and courage about the situation in Sierra Leona. A shame that this movie wasn't filmed in Sierra Leona, but they managed to show an accurate visual, realistic description of this country.
Red ground after all the blood that had been spilled by it's people, mostly because of vane ambitions. 9/10