So I watched "Blood Diamond" the other day. Gotta love Djimon Hounsou. He's always cool. And I have to say that Leo wasn't too bad. I think my opinion up to this point was colored by his crappy Titanic performance. I shudder just thinking of it.
Anyhoo, this movie was actually quite sad considering this kind of thing happens all the time, it's still happening today. While the US is one of the countries buying the most diamonds, very few people think about where they come from when they schlep that big, honkin' rock onto their finger. (Not me, as I am poor.) Even if the diamond doesn't come from a conflict area (and, honestly, how can we tell if it does?), the areas of the world where they are mined are generally very poor. The people that mine the thousands of carats of diamonds are living in poverty, just so Buffy can have her four-carat engagement ring. Yikes. These kinds of stories are almost never written about, and if they are, they fall far below the country's mania to find out how Anna Nicole died, and if Britney made it out of rehab. Sad but true.
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