Nothing Lasts Forever

Nothing conclusive Only confusing Most of them are half information.

Jewelry designer was super confused she had no clue what she want to convey.

Over dramatic.

Overemphasize on "illusion" because most of top business are illusions.

Most often when you purchase an original painting you pick it because it has some meaning to you. Placing it and seeing it in your space gives you a feeling of comfort. Original Paintings refresh your spirit. Looking at an original painting can be a gift of daily inspiration.

There is no comparison in both the business, but just to say Natural diamond is a illusion business its just not right.

It's a documentary about the industry of diamonds and the threat of synthetic diamonds being mixed with natural diamonds.

Briefly shows De Beers as the company that created the market for diamonds, and the mais driver of pricing.

It fails into investigate anything really documentary about the illusion being talked about.

Doesn't peak into the courtain properly. It's mainly well directed interviews.

The rythm it's adequate, has some fun to the text.

Amazing soundtrack, the interviews are interesting and engaging. Top notch production. But has nothing in the end, no conclusion, nothing really worth it. It just suddenly ends.

Great characters. Great conflicting views between the old and new world. The first half is particularly interesting. And the journey of one character, arguably the main one, which including a Uber driver gig, is also extremely interesting to follow.

But the designer/scientist/historian/writer hate so much De Beers that she managed to make them sympathetic. She is completely counterproductive and you end up doubting what she's saying.

I'm not sure if it was deliberate by the production to keep her to weaken the "synthetic" side but her interventions are the only weak points in the documentary.

A somewhat interesting take on a topic many of us already knew- synthetic diamonds/lab created diamonds are awash in the market and the entire apple cart is not only upset but completely upended and in tatters. Yet, despite voluminous evidence that shows us how corrupt, sinister and unethical these members are, how destructive the industry is, and how manipulative they've been, people fall for the ridiculous marketing campaigns. Thankfully the insane tactic of trying to use gender equality as a marketing scheme to prey upon women's egos absolutely fell flat. They've largely operated on incredibly lucky marketing tactics that people bought into, like the three months salary lie.

Every player in this Greek tragedy, barring a scant few, are just slimy; they're all so completely up their own behinds so far that they're unable to see how wrapped up in their own lies and willingness to sell their souls to keep the money train coming into the station.

What's lost here is, while the DB president (or whatever he is) wants to talk about 'oh look how awesome Botswana is!!', there's still crippling poverty and it includes employees of their own company. DB is very similar to Phillip-Morris, in that, when a product came along that they were unable to squash, (synthetic diamonds/vaping) they decided to try and become a part of what they claimed was just so appalling five minutes ago.

These people are terrified for the future that inevitably awaits and it cannot come soon enough.

I consume quite a lot of documentaries, they have always been one of my favorite genres in film.

I see that the other ratings seem to be a bit 'all over the place', so I wanted to drop a few quick words about this one.

Going in, already a bit familiar with the subject matter, I found this documentary to be fascinating. I wasn't bored for even one minute. I learned a few things that I had not known before.

The different personalities and perspectives were interesting, to say the least. I enjoyed some more than others, to be sure.

I believe my very favorite person in the whole film was the only woman to play a large part. She was clever, highly intelligent, with a very dry sense of humor. I often found myself laughing out loud. She's most certainly a woman I would enjoy sharing a meal with.

Give this one a chance, if it isn't for you in the first 10 minutes... go on to something else.

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