DiCaprio's portrayal of Danny Archer, a soldier turned soldier of fortune. Jennifer Connelly of American journalist, the reporter and Djimon Hounsou as a fisherman..! What can I say? I couldn't have enough! The bitterness flows through my heart. The beautiful scenery driving me to the tour agencies' doors to book a ticket to Africa(or the places of the sets). I felt the loves!!Well all at the same times while watching this movie. 
And being once a miner myself deep in the jungle far north Myanmar's very own Jade Mines, you guess! how this movie would be so special to me..Along with the Archer and Solomon, the whole week I was thinking and wondering about Dee Rum, Hong Hkong, my dear comrades, the miners and how they are doing? I have always wanted to write about my experience in the jade land but whenever I tried to start the story I felt mentally draining and lost in translation emotionally hence never been able to materialize the story.Visit Warners Brothers for more details about the movies. You will be amazed to realize there are so much more behind the movies. Reading them would entertain you as much as the movie does.
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Director/producer Edward says......
"To me, this movie is about what is valuable,"
"To one person, it might be a stone; to someone else, a story in a magazine; to another, it is a child. The juxtaposition of one man obsessed with finding a valuable diamond with another man risking his life to find his son is the beating heart of this film."
"These two men set off on a journey, one with the intent of getting off the continent, the other with the intent of getting his family back," notes Leonardo DiCaprio, who stars as Danny Archer. "But each character ends up struggling with his own moral decisions."
Djimon Hounsou, who stars as Solomon Vandy, sums it up: "Archer is pursuing a diamond, but Solomon's diamond is his son."
The world sees diamonds as sparkling, beautiful and highly prized. They are symbols of love and fidelity, affluence and glamour. But in the African country of Sierra Leone, where many of the world's diamonds are mined, they have taken on a much darker connotation.
Zwick explains, "‘Conflict diamonds' are stones that have been smuggled out of countries at war. They then go to pay for more arms, increasing the death toll and furthering the destruction of the region. They may be a small percentage of the world's sales, but, nonetheless, in an industry worth billions of dollars, even a small percentage is worth many millions and can buy innumerable small arms. In the late 1990s, people from such NGOs as Global Witness, Partnership Africa-Canada and Amnesty International gave them a name in order to help bring the crisis into the public consciousness:
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Myanmar Jade, Ruby travelled far too and still travelling over the land across borders. Are they free of conflict? Are they free of blood? I wonder who might want to share? I have my own story and if I could have yours who knows we might have a good story in the making!!
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