{"id":1608,"date":"2019-11-12T15:00:27","date_gmt":"2019-11-12T22:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/?p=1608"},"modified":"2019-10-14T09:47:06","modified_gmt":"2019-10-14T15:47:06","slug":"movie-blood-diamond-2006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/2019\/11\/12\/movie-blood-diamond-2006\/","title":{"rendered":"MOVIE: Blood Diamond (2006)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><u><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/en\/5\/5a\/Blooddiamondposter.jpg\" alt=\"Blood Diamond\" width=\"220\" height=\"325\">Blood Diamond<br \/>\n<\/u><\/strong>Year: 2006<br \/>\nRating: R<br \/>\nLength: 143 minutes \/ 2.38 hours<\/p>\n<p>For years, I had heard about&nbsp;<em>Blood Diamond<\/em>&nbsp;(2006) from a variety of different viewpoints. Many friends would mention it about either Leonardo DiCaprio\u2019s accent, the tense action, or the diamond industry as a whole. After a while, I made it a point to eventually see this film, even if I wasn\u2019t sure when that would be. It took a while, but I did eventually have this chance, and I\u2019m glad that I took it. Sure,&nbsp;<em>Blood Diamond<\/em>&nbsp;is a little difficult to watch in the sense that there are aspects of the African diamond industry that are straight-up human rights violations. However, it is important to know these things are going on to become informed about our world.<\/p>\n<p>The fact that there have been (and likely still are) child soldiers being brainwashed by ruthless rebels to overthrow the governments in Africa is a sobering thing to watch and a heartbreaking realization when you see how it plays out when a father and son are separated. Much of the problem comes down to the diamond industry forcing a high value on these objects that are a manufactured scarcity by the companies profiting off the bloodshed and destruction of these African nations.<\/p>\n<p>While&nbsp;<em>Blood Diamond<\/em>&nbsp;isn\u2019t entirely perfect (it has its fair share of clich\u00e9s and tropes), it is something I think most people in the United States should watch. Sure, the 1999 setting might be a little out of date 20 years later, but how are we to know that these conditions still don\u2019t exist over there? Some laws may have been passed to help stem the flow of blood diamonds into the system, but there are plenty of ways around these restrictions. Both legal loopholes and opportunistic individuals who want to make some money off the suffering of others have perpetuated this problem.<\/p>\n<p>A difficult film to watch, but one people should definitely see, I give&nbsp;<em>Blood Diamond<\/em> 4.0 stars out of 5.<\/p>\n<h2><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-647\" src=\"http:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/255px-Five-pointed_star_svg-150x150.png\" alt=\"255px-Five-pointed_star_svg\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\">&nbsp;<strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-647\" src=\"http:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/255px-Five-pointed_star_svg-150x150.png\" alt=\"255px-Five-pointed_star_svg\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\">&nbsp;<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-647\" src=\"http:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/255px-Five-pointed_star_svg-150x150.png\" alt=\"255px-Five-pointed_star_svg\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\">&nbsp;<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-647\" src=\"http:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/255px-Five-pointed_star_svg-150x150.png\" alt=\"255px-Five-pointed_star_svg\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\"><\/strong><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blood Diamond Year: 2006 Rating: R Length: 143 minutes \/ 2.38 hours For years, I had heard about&nbsp;Blood Diamond&nbsp;(2006) from a variety of different viewpoints. Many friends would mention it about either Leonardo DiCaprio\u2019s accent, the tense action, or the diamond industry as a whole. After a while, I made it a point to eventually [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,2],"tags":[47,1931,1929,1933,1932,1930,1934,13,8],"class_list":["post-1608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-4-0-stars","category-movie","tag-47","tag-africa","tag-blood-diamond","tag-diamond-industry","tag-hard-to-watch","tag-leonardo-dicaprio","tag-manufactured-scarcity","tag-movie","tag-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1608"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1613,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1608\/revisions\/1613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}