Filmzusammenfassung (E)

Blood Diamond – summery                                                                                    Marie Hummer, 6B

Blood Diamond is a film by Edward Zwick with Leonardo DiCaprio, Djimon Hounsou and Jennifer Connelly which takes place in Sierra Leone, Africa, at the time of the civil war. It is about the RUF, child soldiers and the trade with the blood diamonds.

Fisher Solomon Vandy and his son Dia are going through their village in Sierra Leone when rebels from the Revolutionary United Front called RUF attack it and kill and hurt a lot of people. Solomon’s wife and his daughter can escape and his son gets caught by the rebels to fight as a child soldier. Solomon gets also caught and has to work at a diamond mine near Kono that belongs to the RUF. There he finds a really big diamond and hides it between his toes. As he tries to hide it in the near the mine a controller finds him but Solomon doesn’t get shot because the government attacks the mine in this moment and retrieves it. All of the workers have to go to prison.

At the prison Solomon meets Danny Archer. He is a smuggler who brings diamonds from Sierra Leone to Liberia and he got caught. Danny Archer heard about the big diamond and wants to make a deal with Solomon. He tells him that he will find Solomon’s family if Solomon shows him were he hid the diamond. The RUF attacks the city were the prison is situated and in this chaos they manage to escape together.

Danny meets Maddy Brown. She is a journalist who wants to write about the blood diamond. Together with her Solomon and Danny try to find Solomon’s family. They find Solomon’s wife and daughters at a refugee camp in Guinean. His wife tells Solomon that his son was caught by the rebels.

I really like this film. It has elements of a typical Hollywood film like some of the action scenes and the love story. On the other hand it shows the situation of the Africans. How they live in fear of the RUF, how horrible the attacks of the rebels are and how cruel they use children as soldiers. And it shows really good how Solomon suffers.