The film "Blood Diamond" mainly takes the Sierra Leone fisherman Solomon, Zimbabwe's white warmonger Archer and American beauty reporter Maddie Bowen as clues. civil war. Aside from the details and plot, the ultimate reason is that the demand for cheap diamonds in the developed European and American markets and the manipulation of some interest consortia have caused the protracted civil war. In order to maintain the war, the RUF continues to force the people of its controlled areas to work hard for it, and sells diamonds to the black market of interest groups to buy weapons. At the same time, interest groups provide funds to the Sierra Leone government to ensure that the war will continue to obtain cheap blood diamonds.
Such a vicious circle has been happening all over Africa, which is why the discovery of oil and minerals in Africa often brings not wealth and development but endless suffering for the people.
The film was rated R-rated at the time of its release, not because of any explicit content, but because it portrayed some war content too realistically to make people look straight. In fact, the phenomenon of scouting portrayed in the film is not only true and credible, until now there are still more than 200,000 child soldiers in Africa: they are asked to kill their parents with their own hands, or rape and kill their sisters in front of them ,Mother. The purpose of doing so, as shown in the film, is to obliterate their hopes for normal life, ethics and family, and brainwash them so that they cut off all hope and can only rely on "organizations". Boys will be required to hold guns at their own fellows and face the risk of having their limbs or their lives taken at any time; girls are generally employed as military prostitutes. What is being described here is not hell, but what is happening in Africa right now as you read this, no matter how hard we want to believe it. Including the "Lord's Resistance Army", which has been active since 19787, clashed with government forces in northern Uganda and South Sudan, and what they did is no different from the RUF in "Blood Diamond". Its soul figure, KNOY, is widely known and cast aside for the resistance propaganda film shot by Americans in 2012.
The film's portrayal of the world's second largest refugee camp with a capacity of two million people is undoubtedly a shocking scene. Two million people are trapped in a dirty and crowded area, not to protect them, but to fear that they will join the rebels. And I seem to see survivors who escaped during the massacre in Rwanda in 1994, Libyans who fled to Italy and France in 2011, or refugees now living on the border between Turkey and Lebanon. These millions of refugees are often not allowed to find jobs in the countries that host them, because this threatens the employment of the local residents, who do not have stable jobs and secure shelter, often go without food and clothing, and live in homelessness. Alien, miserable life. What's wrong with them?
They may not be able to understand the reason for their entire life. People's greatest pain is to take responsibility for their own mistakes, repeatedly asking themselves what is wrong, but unable to get an answer. From the policy towards African colonies formulated by European and American powers out of their own interests during the colonial period, to the partitioning of colonies after World War I and World War II, to the double standards that the world police have always pursued after the Cold War, and the low level of education in Africa, The ruling class is rich and inhumane, embarrassed and evil, each of which is a bloody original sin that causes tragedy and pain. A white bride who gets married wearing a cheap blood diamond, a banker who sits on the throne of an investment bank smoking an imported cigar, a politician who enjoys the admiration and support of thousands of people, and you who sit in Starbucks and drink Guatemalan coffee, all inevitably become sins promoter. To paraphrase a familiar phrase: no business, no harm.
Movies open a window, but don't give us a solution. At the end of the film, the most ridiculous thing is that Solomon walks into the eyes of white people like a novel animal worthy of attention. The director still did not give it an equal status and perspective, which is the biggest flaw in my opinion. In contrast, "12 Years a Slave", which won the Oscar for the best picture this year, behaves naturally and equally. Interestingly, the black male protagonist of "12 Years a Slave" is also named Solomon.
As a Chinese, it is beneficial to understand the world through movies like "Blood Diamond", but it is equally important to stick to the standpoint and pride of one's own culture, and to view and analyze the world they portray independently and equally. We may not be able to do much to change the world, but we can work hard not to be the drivers of evil and inequality.
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