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The Film File
Africa breaks your heart--that's the simplest and most persistent emotion that bursts out of such recent films as "Hotel Rwanda," "The Constant Gardener," "The Last King of Scotland," and, now, "Blood Diamond," the best and most enjoyable of this cycle of movies set against the background of civil wars, ethnic conflict, and Western meddling and exploitation. The earlier films, whatever their considerable virtues, were so thoroughly suffused with guilt over the West's role in Africa's misery that they left you chastened and hanging your head. But "Blood Diamond," written by Charles Leavitt, from an idea that he developed ...