• Edward Zwick
• United States
• English
• Drama
• 2006
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The booming diamond trade is partly financed by the blood and innocence of a long oppressed people whose blood is spilt on the earth of Africa to finance their respective and equally dictatorial and brutal governments for the consumerist and rich nations’ peoples. A cartel that controls the supply and demand thus keeping the prices of these much coveted stones artificially high. Is it worth it to express one’s love on the romantic attributions of a neverending, a forever, love embodied in a finely cut diamond? Even if it decimates towns and villages, displacing millions and eventually, nipping childrens dreams by seizing them young and inculcating them with violence, hatred and murder and in the process turning against their homeland, their people, their families?

A very strong message encapsulated in a fine movie with great stellar work by Leonardo DiCaprio, Djimon Honsou and Jennifer Connelly that is sure to make us ponder.