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Zula 2022-04-21 09:01:06

If it takes time to become a director, I think the least I'm good at is action movies. I have seen the passionate years of director Edward. This director is very pure and manly. The combination of art, theme and genre is quite good. Conscience, may be justice, may be responsibility, although the ending is sometimes not tragic, but there is a kind of tragic feeling in his films.
The good thing about this film is that the combination of genre and war has universal values, whether it is from an artistic point of view, film value, or commercial value, it is a joint force. The director's control is not bad, he has a good grasp of the plot, not sensational, not dazzling himself, and a complete narrative. The more touching thought is that people are the same, but there is no equality. Classic lines, this is Africa, whether there are good people, God is gone.
Maybe I've seen enough of the classic Hollywood narrative. It's not very touching. I think there are some places in the film that are not perfect in the genre framework. Top-heavy, the more he goes back, the more ugly he looks. When Leonardo gave up diamonds in search of redemption, the transition was not good, and the characters had no motivation to give up life and diamonds. The choice at this time was very sudden. The reason is that the "good" aspects of Leonardo's personality were not well portrayed in the front. The decisions he made felt very easy, for example, he decided to help the female reporter, and he decided to betray the colonel... The power of the BOSS is top-heavy. At first, I felt that the black dictator, the government army, and the South African colonel are all very good. The more you get behind, the more rookie you are, especially when the South African big BOSS suddenly OVER. Naturally this is Africa, and silence is better than sound at this time.
All in all, it's still a pretty good movie.

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Blood Diamond quotes

  • M'Ed: This my country, man. We here long 'fore you came - long after you gone.

  • Soldier: She reminds me of my wife.