BLOOD DIAMOND

DIRECTED:EDWARD ZWICK

Produced by: LenAmato, Benjamin Waisbren, Kevin De La Noy

CAST:Leonardo DiCaprio, Djimon Hounsou, Jennifer Connelly, Arnold Vosloo, Michael Sheen


Sometimes we do get lucky in life, if not in life then def in films. Coz once in a while there comes a film like 'blood diamond' which shakes you wakes you up, because the story has managed to touch you in various ways, through the character of the father desperate to get back his son, through the character of son who is being taken away by the rebels and has forgotten his way home, through the character of Leo who is desperate to get that pink diamond which will make him super rich, and through the character of Jennifer Connely who being a reporter, who despite knowing the real intention of Leo, knowing the real Leo can't help falling in love with him.

The film hits not just on the level of characters, but also on the bigger picture. The mans quest for money and the more flamboyant things in life [like diamond], at the cost of his life and above all at the cost of other peoples lives and values.

Caprio's, performance is immpecable. His undaunting nature and the layering in his character, which initially looked simple turns out to be more complex. Playing as an ex mercenary and diamond smuggler, heis unmatched. His savory, English-flecked patois in which he converses with the thugs is delightful, and there’s a ready humor in his open enjoyment of deceit, bribery, and dirty deals.

Hounson, as a fisherman separated from his family and enslaved by rebel forces terrorizing his village is forced to work in the diamond mines of Sierra Leone, where he comes across a large pink diamond. Caprio comes to know about the diamond and he wants it at any cost. Houson is ready to give it to him, but on one condition if Caprio helps him get his family back.

Caprio agrees.

Along the way the horrors of the chaotic and brutal civil war are revealed. Soldiers recruit children to perform hideously violent acts and drug them to keep them mollified. The film posits the idea that whenever a valuable natural resource has been discovered in an African nation (such as oil, gold, ivory or diamonds) the country itself rarely profits. The standard of living of its citizens is rarely improved. Instead, strife reigns and the spoils go to corrupt, affluent businesspeople in Europe or the USA.

Jennifer Connelly, is an American journalist looking to write a story exposing the diamond smuggling industry. She tries to seduce Caprio at the same time put him off just to get her story.
But ultimately she falls in love with him.

This socio political and action film manages to send a dent in the audiences heart through it breath taking locales, through children being made a part of the violence and the drug crime, and through the brilliantly performances from all the quarters.

A MUST WATCH FOR THE DIAMOND LOVERS!!

watch the trailer

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AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH

Directed by: Davis Guggenheim .
Produced:Laurie David, Lawrence Bender, Scott Z. Burns, Lesley Chilcott

Well we all know that the Earth is going to die someday, a million years may me two when we would probably become one of the stars in the universe. This film tells you its going to happen right now, tomorrow may be day after. This documentary about global warming shakes you from head to toe to the last atom your body is made up of, unless of course, you have a choice not to be human.

Narrated and demostrated by the once U.S Vicepresident Al Gore the film chronicles the chronicle effect of global warming our generation next is going to be facing if we do not do anything about it now. The window of now being maximum ten years. Beyond that the damages are going to be irrepairable.

The film is essentially a visual[power point] presentation on global warming, very different and challenging way of telling a story and yet making it interesting and hooking the audience till the very end. That main presentation is intercut every now and then with the life of Al Gore, the life he has lead, fought, won, lost. His thirty years dedicated involvement to the issue of global warming, and still raring to go. His reasons for getting involved with the issue [ he almost lost his son, he lost is sister due to smoking, the irony being tobacco was a family business, his close connection with the environment during his upbringing]

The film highlights the hard core facts of how we are contributing every day to global warming. population, pollution[ increased use of cars, cutting down of trees, increased food electricity any form of consumption] is destroying nature, putting pressure on it.

A simple formula will explain it better. the sun rays fall on the earth- some is absorbed other is reflected back into the atmosphere. Now due to thickened blanket of co2 already forming above us, the rays get caught in the blanket and more rays get caught and further more every day, due to which the temperatures are increasing like hot oven. And we are going to be melting soon.

The film reflects the chunks of icy mountains falling down like trees being axed. Its shuddering. If greenland or Antarctica melts, the sea level in the entire world is going to rise by 20 feet, which means regions on the Eastern side are going to go down the water by a sizeable amount. There are milion other issues demonstarated graphically by Al Gore. Its a must watch film for every single person existing itn he world. WE TALK ABOUT AIDS, ABOUT CANCER, ABOUT TERRORISM, ABOUT MILLION OTHER THINGS, BUT WHAT WOULD HAPPEN WHEN THERE WOULD BE NO ONE LEFT TO TALK ABOUT!

The film also tells about the things we can do in order to get the the Earth back in a stable state. So go watch it.

Other effects of the global warming added by my data are:


.Climate change could drive a million of the world's species to extinction as soon as 2050, a scientific study says.

.The United Nations says the prospect is also a threat to the billions of people who rely on Nature for essential goods, food, shelter and medicines for their survival. 12000, species - plants, mammals, birds, reptiles, frogs, butterflies and other invertebrates - are expected to move in response to changing temperatures and climate.

. John Lanchbery, of the UK's Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, has studied the science and diplomacy of climate change for many years. He has told BBC News Online: "It would appear there is really nothing we can do to avoid at least some extinctions. We are bound to be near to the study's minimum scenarios, even if we can avoid the higher ones ." which means we can avoid the higher disasters

. "If one million species become extinct... it is not just the plant and animal kingdoms but alsoThe the beauty of the planet that will suffer.

.Greenland's ice sheet could disappear within the next 1,000 years if global warming continues at its present rate, a report in Nature magazine suggests

.Of Hawaii's 125 endemic plants (species found nowhere else) added to the Red List this year, 85 are threatened

"The Red List tells us that human activities are leading to a swathe of extinctions that could make these islands ecologically and aesthetically barren."

. Among the countries with the highest numbers of threatened birds and animals are Indonesia, India, Brazil, China and Peru. Plants are declining fast in Ecuador, Malaysia, Indonesia, Brazil and Sri Lanka.

. European researchers say last summer was the hottest on the continent for at least five centuries