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Blood Diamond
Jan. 6th, 2007 10:14 pmGo see Blood Diamond. It has some nasty violence and missed a couple of good stopping places (a common flaw in many of the movies I've seen this year), but the movie is good and mostly honest about conflict diamonds.
Djimon Hounsou gives an excellent performance, and Leonardo DiCaprio has really come into his own as an actor recently. I've always thought he was good, but not quite ripe, if that makes any sense. He's ripe now. He give a terrific performance here and from the South Africans I've known gets the accent right to boot.
Blood Diamond has the longest legal verbiage that I've seen in a credits sequence. De Beers has a long arm.
So, I'm throwing this open to the floor: Diamonds. Why or why not buy them.
I have a pair of diamond earrings that my folks gave me. But my life would be just as rich (or just as empty depending on the mood) without them. As nice as they are, I prefer aquamarines and amethysts which I think have better mining practices. Hmmm. I'm not sure. Must research.
The pro-diamond propaganda's been around a long time. I know my step-grandmother refused to believe my parents were engaged because my father didn't give my mother a diamond ring. Back in the day, an engagement diamond was supposed to represent three months salary so that it could be sold later and used as a down payment for the house. Now, men are expected to fork out the three months salary and the couple still have to save for their downpayment.
I loathe the "right-hand ring" advertisements that are out. The three stone necklace and ring trend (past, present, future for those of you fortunate enough to have missed the ads) is just a way for the cartel to create a new demand.
Djimon Hounsou gives an excellent performance, and Leonardo DiCaprio has really come into his own as an actor recently. I've always thought he was good, but not quite ripe, if that makes any sense. He's ripe now. He give a terrific performance here and from the South Africans I've known gets the accent right to boot.
Blood Diamond has the longest legal verbiage that I've seen in a credits sequence. De Beers has a long arm.
So, I'm throwing this open to the floor: Diamonds. Why or why not buy them.
I have a pair of diamond earrings that my folks gave me. But my life would be just as rich (or just as empty depending on the mood) without them. As nice as they are, I prefer aquamarines and amethysts which I think have better mining practices. Hmmm. I'm not sure. Must research.
The pro-diamond propaganda's been around a long time. I know my step-grandmother refused to believe my parents were engaged because my father didn't give my mother a diamond ring. Back in the day, an engagement diamond was supposed to represent three months salary so that it could be sold later and used as a down payment for the house. Now, men are expected to fork out the three months salary and the couple still have to save for their downpayment.
I loathe the "right-hand ring" advertisements that are out. The three stone necklace and ring trend (past, present, future for those of you fortunate enough to have missed the ads) is just a way for the cartel to create a new demand.
