"Smart People" is a comedy depicting British politics. The lines are relatively obscure and not easy to understand. After reading it several times, it is sorted out as follows.
Simon Foster is the Secretary of the Cabinet of the United Kingdom, and his specific position is the Minister of International Development. The United Kingdom and the United States planned a war against a certain country in the Middle East (fictional, not the Iraq war, but the actual mapping is the Iraq war), and required government officials to keep silent about it and not talk about it. Simon himself is an anti-war person with a kind heart, but his shortcomings are good performance, and he is more gentle and hesitant. In a BBC interview, I was induced by the host to express my views on the war and believed that the war was "unpredictable." This means that war does not have to be fought, which contradicts the prime minister’s view and becomes an "anti-war party." Therefore, he was severely reprimanded by Maxim, the head of the public relations department, and asked him to remain silent and not to express any views on the war. US Assistant Secretary of State Clark is an anti-war moderate. He tried to prevent the war. After hearing Simon’s point of view, he thought it could be used for him. So he invited Simon at a meeting in the UK, hoping that he would say that the war was “unpredictable” again. . But Simon had orders this time, so he didn't dare to talk nonsense, and he didn't want to talk nonsense, so he squatted and said something that was constant and variable nonsense. After the meeting, Simon was very disappointed in his performance. Under the press of the reporter, he played on the spot, trying to express his own views through implicit metaphors to make up for the gaffes at the meeting. He did not want to metaphorically misbehave. He said: "On the road to peace. On the road, we must climb over the peaks of conflict." It means that peace must be achieved through force, so that it becomes the "main warrior" again. Two changes in a few days.
After Simon went on a business trip to the United States, both the moderate Clark and the militant Assistant Secretary of State Linton wanted to use Simon. Inviting him to participate in the discussion of the war committee, Simon underwent pressure from the head of the public relations department, and again misbehaved. He said some hard, very hard, and super hard nonsense, and returned to the UK in a desperate manner.
After returning to the United Kingdom, because of a wall problem with voters in the electoral district, he received ridicule in the newspaper. The British Prime Minister was more satisfied with Simon's seemingly belligerent attitude, and took Simon and Maxim to the United Nations to participate in the voting on the war in the Middle East. Simon is unwilling to be an accomplice in starting the war, and intends to resign before the vote to show his determination to fight the war and does not want to leak it to the media. This matter was known to the anti-war factions, hoping to win him over and strengthen the forces of the anti-war factions in order to achieve the purpose of stopping the war. But Simon was obviously greedy for power and didn't want to resign. Always swinging and hesitating, pulling back and forth for both sides.
Neither Britain nor the United States has any evidence to prove that they must start a war and count on each other. On the eve of the vote, they did not have decent intelligence. When the British Prime Minister sent to the United Nations, he told the American Belligerent Assistant Secretary of State Linton that Maxim could provide intelligence on "British Wisdom", but Maxim obviously didn't understand it, saying "Nothing" (nothing). Linton was furious and accused Maxim of incompetence. At this time, Simon appeared in front of Maxim at the same time, saying that he would resign and fight the war. It just so happened that the Simon constituency wall collapsed, and BBC was preparing to report. Maksim jumped over the wall in a hurry, pretending to be Simon and calling BBC, saying not to publish "news that is not good for him." As a result, as he wished, BBC immediately published news that was unfavorable to Simon, causing Simon's negligence, and the Prime Minister gave out the pretext of Simon's position. At the same time, I understood the prime minister’s intentions and ordered domestic press officials to take the opportunity of investigating the responsibility for the disclosure of documents, and let the officials of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs reform a report "pwlpp" written by assistants of the U.S. Assistant Secretary of State (this report was originally anti-war. The way of writing is to first talk about the evidence for launching the war, and then the evidence for not launching the war. The latter has a lot of evidence, but the latter part was deleted. Only the evidence for the launching of the war.), provided to the US Secretary of State Linton, Linton is well received Zhibao, with this false information, participated in the UN debate and passed the UN resolution on launching war against Middle Eastern countries. The war started in lies, swear words, and Simon's softness!
The above is the main line of the story of the movie, and there are many auxiliary lines. It is too cumbersome. I won't talk about them one by one. You can take a look. The whole film is satirizing the bureaucratic style of officials in Britain and the United States, the officials' infighting, framing, and exploiting each other, as well as the ignorance and recklessness of high-level officials. The state is held hostage by managers and used by a small number of people.
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