Themes In Blood Diamond

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Edward Zwick and Marcelles Ferando are the directors of Blood Diamond and The Constant Gardener, which are thrilling humanitarian movies that open the eyes of those granted with the pleasure of watching it. In Blood Diamond Solomon Vandy played by Djimon Hounsou is the role of a typical poor African fisherman who represents the masses of the lower spectrum of the working class, hoping for a better future for themselves and their children. He is a very family orientated man who goes to the ends of the earth just to find his son in order to reunite his family. Djimon Hounsou plays a very courageous, compassionate and morally grounded family man who is also at times unbelievably naïve as he is blinded by his driving factor which is the love that …show more content…

In both of these films one can expect to find four typical major characters namely the white saviour, the dangerous African, the good African and the white exploiter. Both of these films sought out to enlighten Western and European audiences about the situations that were taking place in each country the films were set in portraying Africa as a chaotic continent filled with oppressed citizens which is not entirely the truth. In Blood Diamond the conflict diamond mines are not in use anymore and their country has found a way to deal with their diamond problem which is not on such a large scale as portrayed in the film, but how are people from out of Africa who know nothing about it going to know that. The people out of Africa who watch these films and have no background knowledge about our continent are going to end up assuming that what is shown in these films is in fact the daily life of every African citizen, which is not a very far stretch from the truth, but it does give a shorthanded depiction of Africa. In both of these films Africa is also never seen from the eyes of the people who have lived there their whole lives, but rather always from the eyes of the “white saviour” which could possibly add to the misperception of Africa. In The Constant Gardener the image of Africa is a very well-known one with high level …show more content…

The urgency and chaos of that energetic sequence was captured very well with the hand held camera which was used while they were running and their facial expressions portrayed their feelings very beautifully and clearly. The dead bodies and damaged buildings around them set the scene perfectly and brought it to

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