Ed Zwick's Blood Diamond
Blood Diamond was directed by Edward Zwick. I wasn't surprised when I read about him and found out he's a journalist who graduated from Harvard.
I really liked this movie, even though it exposes (I think) a very cruel side of human nature difficult to understand and somehow even overcome.
The story takes place in Sierra Leone during the 90's. A brutal civil war that ended with over 75000 lives took place for over 10 years. It was mainly financed and fought over diamonds. Economic interests = war? No way, right?
Anyways... it poses very hard philosophical questions about matters like: Is the human being selfish and naturally in permanent conflict? Does God exist? And if He does, how can things like this take place? What is fair in war? Is a better world possible? Are things ever going to change? Have they ever been different? Should we even bother? Is it natural? Is it reversible? Is there any hope?
Questions like this have been around for thousands of years, but I feel that as time goes by, human beings become more and more in need of the right answers to them.
Africa... obviously, whatever the rest of the world has been trying to do to help isn't working. At all. The problems are multi-dimensional, profoundly rooted and so incredibly hard to understand. Hm. In spite of that, there is hope. Changes aren't happening tomorrow or next month, but they will happen, eventually.
Where ever is the historical responsibility? Where is the human instinct of empathy and cooperation? And as the Black Eyed Peas very well said it, Where is the love? Seriously.
I felt so sad while watching the film. The reality of most African countries is so tough most people chose to ignore it. I don't judge, I'm just saying.
The "T.I.A" expression repeated several times during the film really got to me. "T.I.A.", meaning "This Is Africa". Oh, and the part when someone says something like "Whenever a valorous resource is found in Africa, millions of people die over it" or when someone says "God left Africa a long time ago" (I've heard that before in "Tears of the sun"). I hate this expressions, as very well supported by a large amount of facts they might be, they're so negative and pessimistic.
Shouldn't we have hope? Even if we don't have any answers, we are alive and that means we are able to to try and do whatever we want to do. That seems like a lot. Don't you think?
A tip of advice: if you cried over "Legends of the Fall" or "The Last Samurai" (both Zwick's) you should probably prepare yourself before watching this one. But it is definitely worth it.
I should go to sleep. Good night.
I really liked this movie, even though it exposes (I think) a very cruel side of human nature difficult to understand and somehow even overcome.
The story takes place in Sierra Leone during the 90's. A brutal civil war that ended with over 75000 lives took place for over 10 years. It was mainly financed and fought over diamonds. Economic interests = war? No way, right?
Anyways... it poses very hard philosophical questions about matters like: Is the human being selfish and naturally in permanent conflict? Does God exist? And if He does, how can things like this take place? What is fair in war? Is a better world possible? Are things ever going to change? Have they ever been different? Should we even bother? Is it natural? Is it reversible? Is there any hope?
Questions like this have been around for thousands of years, but I feel that as time goes by, human beings become more and more in need of the right answers to them.
Africa... obviously, whatever the rest of the world has been trying to do to help isn't working. At all. The problems are multi-dimensional, profoundly rooted and so incredibly hard to understand. Hm. In spite of that, there is hope. Changes aren't happening tomorrow or next month, but they will happen, eventually.
Where ever is the historical responsibility? Where is the human instinct of empathy and cooperation? And as the Black Eyed Peas very well said it, Where is the love? Seriously.
I felt so sad while watching the film. The reality of most African countries is so tough most people chose to ignore it. I don't judge, I'm just saying.
The "T.I.A" expression repeated several times during the film really got to me. "T.I.A.", meaning "This Is Africa". Oh, and the part when someone says something like "Whenever a valorous resource is found in Africa, millions of people die over it" or when someone says "God left Africa a long time ago" (I've heard that before in "Tears of the sun"). I hate this expressions, as very well supported by a large amount of facts they might be, they're so negative and pessimistic.
Shouldn't we have hope? Even if we don't have any answers, we are alive and that means we are able to to try and do whatever we want to do. That seems like a lot. Don't you think?
A tip of advice: if you cried over "Legends of the Fall" or "The Last Samurai" (both Zwick's) you should probably prepare yourself before watching this one. But it is definitely worth it.
I should go to sleep. Good night.
rocio - 23. Jan, 23:35
