With a movie with a clear political or historical intention, the director can easily get lost in too many and too strong purposes, and become a simple existence that forces people to reflect. And a good director knows how to settle the heavy history, and find a simple story enough to show all of this in the grand process of history, one or two people. Often they will not be important figures influencing history, nor will they be idlers. They bear reality, but they will not be completely swallowed by reality. They struggle with limited power within a limited range, but they are often limited to individual weakness and sorrow. This makes people sympathetic and moving. Only when you sympathize with people in history can you sympathize with history; only when you reflect on the stories in history can you reflect on history. The strength of the story and the richness of the characterization determine the historical persuasiveness of the film's expected response. From this perspective, the plot and characters of the blood diamond are successful.
It's too hard to talk about this movie in combination with history, and putting aside the heavy history itself, this is a movie about survival. Although there are inhumane rebel murderers and officers who make war and fortune at all costs, there are no positive characters and no heroes in the movie. Everyone is just struggling to survive, in the land "God has abandoned for a long time". Archer is the most complicated and tragic character in the movie. The sad childhood and cruel experience taught him how to survive in this world, abandon love, abandon sympathy, and abandon all factors that hinder self-centeredness. If you cannot judge and think about the future of this world, you can only use your own survival as your sole purpose. His only purpose is to leave this place by smuggling diamonds. However, this sinful life gradually swallowed him, and this country gradually became a land he "never left". Human nature is wrapped deep in my heart, trying not to think about the meaning of my own existence. The deepest impression was the scene where he and Maddy were in the lodge at night. The memories of keeping the dust for too long and humanity overflowed in the conversation. Longing to understand, wanting to escape, yearning for life instead of survival, crying in front of a woman trying to understand herself. Perhaps from that night, the truth in his heart returned quietly, and finally chose to fulfill solomon in the face of death. When Solomon was leaving by plane with his son and Diamond, the archer leaning on the rock before his death made the last call to Maddy in his country. "I have a beautiful scenery that I have never seen before. I really hope you can see it too. I'm glad to meet you and talk to you. However, it doesn't matter if you are not here, because this is not where I should have existed. Place." The last sunset touched me.
Leonardo is not the handsome I admire, because I think his handsome is mixed with too many complicated and rough elements. But I admire his talent. There is a passion in him that seems to burst out at any time, and this passion makes him very suitable for the role of being unable to control himself in the struggle that is always trapped in his heart. He is extremely intelligent, detached from the world around him, but he does not understand or disdain to communicate with the world. Always burning myself, there is energy to burn everything. The role I admire is basically the same.
Solomon's role is also very contagious, a person who bravely fought against this world for his son and family, fearless. But it's a bit perfect.
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