Maybe. Maybe not. Bear with me.

I saw Blood Diamond last night. Leo the Sleazebag was actually cool. I'm not that big of a Leo fan, mostly because he plays a pretty boy most of the time, but I was impressed with his performance as a sleazebag in this movie (reminded me of his neurotic OCD Howard Hughes portrayal). But of course he couldn't remain the sleazebag throughout the entire movie, so without giving anything away, let's just say Leo redeems himself. Kind of. Inadvertently. By no fault of his own.

As for Leo's accent, I though he was trying to cop a South African accent, in which case it would have kind of sucked, because my brother-in-law's family is South African and I know what South Africans sound like (Hello love! Oh deah, that does sound o-ful. You must be famished, yeh?). Turns out Leo was not supposed to be from SA, he was supposed to be from Rhodesia, which according to the World Atlas of Particleman did not exist until last night. Here it is.

Rhodesia is present-day Zimbabwe, which happens to be the place used to denote things that are prohibitively far away. For example, if one of our friends goes on a world-wide tour of far-off places, they are "probably in freaking Zimbabwe by now." Zimbabwe is basically a term interchangeable with "BFE." You might not know what BFE means if you're not from Texas, in which case I will have to explain it in a separate post.

Also, Jennifer Connelly is hot. Leo should have totally made out with her.