"Blood Diamond" Movie Review

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Edward Zwick, a (surprise!) Jewish filmmaker, looks at recent history in Africa’s Sierra Leone with his new film "Blood Diamond." The movie offers up the black'n'white team of Djimon Hounsou and Leonardo DiCaprio.

The film shows the atrocities committed by both those in power and those rebelling, and the poor people caught in between. That's one of the few good things about the movie. The majority of Blacks are shown in their natural habitat as violent, vicious and ugly creatures: the children with their sloped, misshapen heads and the powerful man-beasts look like orcs from "Lord of the Rings."

Solomon Vandy (Hounsou) is one of those Africans caught in the crossfire. Vandy is forced to mine for diamonds by the guerrillas who need the gems to finance their war. Of course, no mention of the huge role Jews play in this trade is ever made. *cough* DeBeers *cough*

By chance, Vandy finds a large diamond that he manages to hide from his captors during a military attack. Danny Archer (DiCaprio) is a mercenary dealing in illicit diamonds and he overhears Vandy talking about the stone.

Vandy sees the diamond as the only means he may have of finding his missing family and buying their freedom. The Whitey, on the other hand, has more selfish ambitions and sees the diamond as his ticket to retirement in a tropical island paradise some where far, far away from Afreaka.

Along the way they hook up with Maddy (tribe member Jennifer Connelly), an American journalist who wants to write an investigative piece about blood diamonds in the hopes that she can "make a difference in the world."

"Blood Diamond" can't hide the fact that Zwick wants to teach audiences another falsified history lesson and lecture them on political correctness. Jennifer Connelly's reporter exists only to spout statistics and educate us on the subject. She’s like one of those characters you bump into in a roleplaying game that gives you all the information you need so you can advance the story.

When Archer first meets Bowen, their conversation is a rapid summary of recent African history with snide comments about American guilt and the fact that the politically correct way to refer to Rhodesia now is to call it Zimbabwe.

Jew hack Zwick is not content to just tell a good action story or to focus tightly on one aspect of a complex issue. He shows how the guerrillas coerce children into fighting, how diamonds fund the violence, how the West ignores the problems in Africa, the formation of massive refugee camps, and so on. The running time is two hours and 18 minutes.

In a rare moment of Hollywood truth, Vandy wonders aloud if his country might not have been better off when it was ruled by whites. Maybe, he suggest, the blacks just have something bad within them. Low IQ, maybe? Ungodly testosterone levels? No impulse control? All the above, Niggy!

This year, DiCaprio makes a bid to change from pretty boy to tough guy with his roles as the hard-edged undercover cop in "The Departed" and the mercenary with shifting morals here in "Blood Diamond." He’s a talented actor and the harder edge is a nice change of pace. Daniel Day Lewis overshadowed him big time in "Gangs of New York," but Leo can hold his own now.

"Blood Diamond" is rated R for brutal nigger violence and strong language, including ebonics. It ends with the request that people demand that the trade in blood diamonds stop. But this call to action is simplistic and naive. Hey, maybe it'll save some sucker two month's salary if he can convince his girlfriend that the diamond trade causes little niglets to lose their hands in Afreaka.

In the end, this is just another attempt to perpetuate guilt among Whites. Shocking, I know! It might be worth a rental some day if you want to scour propaganda for an occasional truth about the god-forsaken continent and its "people."