The soundtrack and acting skills have nothing to say. Although many people don't like American dramas and use them as a basis for superiority, I still have to say that the soundtrack and leading acting skills of this film are really overwhelming. As the protagonist travels all over the world, the dubbing of different scenes has a local style, which is unique and moving, and there is no repetition. The idea of the film is very clever, from the perspective of a successful and always impunity black market arms dealer to accuse the war. Yuri had nothing to do at first and had no purpose in life. After witnessing a vendetta, he decided to trade in arms. Because there was a bone spur arrow in the earliest human bones, we can see that weapons have always been indispensable for people. What's more, there is one out of every 12 people in the world, so why not provide it to the other 11 people? Yuri is a natural black-market arms dealer. He is proficient in all kinds of weapon parameters, has the ability to find and get rid of trackers, gets rid of the wit of the International Criminal Police investigation, is judged by the time when facing crazy buyers, and is not morally troubled. Good mentality. The latter point is particularly important. His brother died in Africa because of lack of this kind of good mentality. Before he died, he had participated in Yuri’s early trade and accidentally witnessed the scene where the child was shot—the guns he sold to him. Of the executioner. His solution to his conscience is to take drugs, alcohol, and promiscuous girlfriends. Compared with the well-dressed, well-dressed, well-mannered, decent wife, and mansion eldest brother Yuri, he is certainly not up to date and is a scum in the family. It can be seen that conscience really can only be used as an epitaph.
Yuri has made a fortune a few years after the transaction, and has the money to pursue the lover of his dreams. He spent money to pretend documents to trick his dream lover (star) to take photos in a hotel in a certain place to meet him, and cleverly used the embarrassment of the lover who wanted to leave as soon as possible but had no transportation, and proposed to use his private jet (actually rented) to send the lover go home. On the plane, they fell in love and soon got married. After marriage, he lived happily and had a son. During this period, Yuri was struggling financially because of too little business. Fortunately, the Soviet Union disintegrated. The drastic changes in Eastern Europe opened up the arsenals of many countries to black market merchants. Yuri ran across Eastern Europe (in his words, instilling rapid capitalism in military and political leaders), distributing those weapons that are very well maintained but without enemies until needed. Hands of people. This period was a period of upswing in his career, and he expanded his business to Africa.
Africa is a paradise for black market arms dealers. In the past decade or so, there have been 11 wars and 28 countries have participated in the war. Yuri believes that some countries would not even be able to fight a decent war without his international delivery. Yuri is also not worried about the ability of African buyers to pay, they have diamonds. In this devastated continent, Yuri met the dictator of a small country and developed good cooperation. During the transaction, Yuri would of course see the warlord arming 10-year-old children with the gun he sold, attacking opponents, executing prisoners, and even killing civilians for pure pleasure, but his mentality was always good, even if his brother begged, His gentle and virtuous wife pleaded with him, but he still firmly believed that what he sold was only a weapon, and that a weapon did not carry moral significance, and how other people use a weapon has nothing to do with him. Moreover, he is quite objective. Weapons are sold not only to the left, but also to the right, and even pacifists, but these people have fewer orders. He said to his brother, the car seller will tell you that the car is dangerous? Will the cigarette seller tell you that cigarettes are dangerous? Every year, their merchandise kills more people than I do, at least my merchandise still has safety plugs, and they don’t talk about work when they go home. He said to his wife: This world needs weapons, and if I don’t sell it, others will sell it. I sell these people the power to protect myself, I don't care about money, I just do this (arms trade) very well.
The last transaction of the film was launched under the prospect of doomed failure. Yuri forced himself to agree to his wife not to trade arms. For half a year, he had been in a legitimate business but was troubled by the meager profits. At this time, the dictator came to him and asked him to provide arms. He wanted to do it again. After the departure, he was followed by his wife. Yuri's instincts of perceiving the tracker did not take effect. His wife found his secret stronghold and reported to the police. At the trading scene in Africa, Yuri's younger brother, who felt that he would be in danger before leaving, could not accept the reality that guns were about to be used to kill innocents. He blew up half of his weapons with a grenade and was shot on the spot. After returning to China, Yuri went into jail because of a bullet left in his brother's body. Of course, the story did not end there.
It must be mentioned that Jack, the international policeman who has been dedicated to tracing Yuri's criminal record for many years. Yuri handed over Jack when he first set foot on this road, but whether it was on the high seas, in the Ukrainian military camp, or in a transport plane full of AK47s, Yuri used his wit and talent to make Jack return without success. In the end, Jack returned. Lobbying Yuri's wife to make some progress. The bullet in his younger brother's body caused Yuri to be arrested. He faces multiple charges. Yuri is very optimistic in prison. Jack said that he still does not understand the seriousness of the problem. Yuri said that my family does not recognize me, my wife and children are gone, and my brother is dead. Please believe that I fully understand the seriousness of the problem, but I will not stay in court for a second. Jack certainly didn't believe it. Yuri explained: Soon someone will knock on the door to tell you to go out, and you will see an officer who will give you a promotion, and I will be released. You are dissatisfied, yelling, threatening to resign, but I will always be released. Because, in fact, the President of the United States is the largest arms dealer. He sells more weapons a day than I sell in a year. Sometimes it is embarrassing to find his fingerprints on the weapons, and Yuri points to the newspaper. The picture says that I sell weapons to enemies of the government's enemies, and the U.S. government needs free people like me to do things that are inconvenient for them. As soon as the voice fell, the door rang, and the high-ranking officials arrived as scheduled.
There are always people in the world who have worked their lives for nothing. It's not that they lack wisdom and effort, it's just that they use wisdom and effort on a non-deterministic level. For example, in the film, the Soviet Union collapsed and the most outstanding helicopter repairman faced unemployment. He was obviously not a dumb and incompetent person, but his skills were on another level-if not a higher level-and had nowhere to go. Another example is Jack, who is shrewd and capable, of noble character, and upright. He takes saving innocent humans and expelling evil as his lifelong responsibility, but what about? He is just a small screw of the state apparatus, and he can only obey higher standards based on national interests. He believes in the best and the worst of his life, which are insignificant in the rules that determine the direction of the world. This situation blatantly shows that morality is always in a subordinate position, and power is the only rule that governs the world. In addition, it also shows that there is no good and evil in this world, or that there are levels of good and evil. The extreme evil of the lower level may become the best in the upper realm, and the good deeds of the lower level are often just ignorance when examined from the perspective of the upper realm. It's hard to deny this fact, otherwise we will not be able to explain the frenzied and modest gentlemen who are active in various high-end worlds. We often laugh at politicians and senior leaders, just as technical workers laugh at administrative staff-thinking they are all drunkards, as programmers laugh at game players-struggling for data, although players can refute that programmers can never get something This kind of fun, but my friend, believe me, a certain kind of fun is not the only thing in life, and administrators and programmers have the power to change the world and take life and death. I sincerely hope that everyone who reads my posts will have their place in the world's highest control center.
As mentioned above, at first I thought that the theme of the film was arms dealers against war, but later I found that this idea was too one-sided. Yuri said: I am very good at this. This obviously reflects human nature. Everyone has their own talents and skills. Yuri is suitable for selling arms, time shifting is suitable for stealing, some are suitable for hackers, and some are suitable for tomb robbers. There are two perspectives on this issue. One is that literary works exaggerate certain situations, such as someone who is born to do something, and someone is particularly good at doing something, in order to reflect the mysterious taste of fatalism. The second is that some people do specialize in a certain way. If the world defines the skills they are good at as evil, it is a conflict between the human view of good and evil and human nature. Of course, this understanding is not complete. In fact, I tried to find traces of Yuri’s anti-arms dealers, but unfortunately, he lost his family at most, and it seems that he has no regrets. Now, I am more relieved. There is no need to insist on a complete interpretation. The lessons of wonderful films are always multifaceted.
Classic quotations (I don’t remember them all, they are to the effect):
1. An African prostitute said to Yuri: Why are you worried about the disease (AIDS) that will kill you only after ten years? Today you have many chances to be killed .
My feeling: A few days ago, I read the reference news that at least 600,000 people in New Guinea, with a population of 6 million, have AIDS. These people are being murdered and buried alive. International public opinion is very concerned. I used to be puzzled why so many people in Africa suffer from AIDS. Are they not afraid of death? After listening to this sentence, I understand that where life is in danger at all times, how can death threats 10 years later make people resist the bliss of the world.
2. Yuri said to the warlord who asked to cancel the order: What peace? What the fuck is the armistice? The goods are already on the way. I will transfer them to the Balkans. At least they will keep their promises after the war is announced.
3. When the warlord paid for the goods, he was about to take weapons to kill civilians. Yuri watched as the civilians gathered. The voice-over: The most brutal crimes often come from those who claim to be "freedom fighters." ...You cannot stop all massacres. In my experience, you cannot stop any massacres. People say, "If the righteous doesn't act, the evil will triumph." In fact, this sentence means "the evil triumphed."
My feeling: In the eyes of arms dealers, any war is "resisting violence with violence", and no matter which pole you are in opposition to, there is no moral superiority, and it is only a profit provider. Putting aside this "dark objectivity", you can't stop any massacre, it's probably an "evil truth".
4. When planning to use tricks to pursue his wife, Yuri said in a voice-over: As far as I know, all beautiful love begins with lying and deception, because since love will eventually develop to lying and deception, why not just start like this?
5. The African dictator said to Yuri: The bullet shot from the gun of a 10-year-old kid is no different from the bullet shot from a 40-year-old man's gun, maybe more powerful.
My feeling: This is of course overthrowing Yuri’s "arms trading view". In addition, this sentence also embodies the cruel truth of "simple, direct, and productive."
6. Yuri divides the guns to the natives: Come, everyone, don’t be shy, come and see, take the guns, give them all to you-singing: guns and guns, come and get them, there are no bullets, there are grenades, Yeah, grenade, yeah, grenade, yeah...
My feeling: In the most funny part of the film, Yuri was chased by the police and landed on the highway. In order to eliminate the evidence, he gave the gun to the natives on the road. In order to attract the guests, he sang the above dialogue with tap dancing, which made me laugh.
7. The African natives not only took away all the guns, but also removed all the parts of the transport plane, including the tires, and moved away. Yuri said: This is just a natural phenomenon in Africa, just like the natural phenomenon of life. Everything that comes from nature will eventually Back to nature.
8. Yuri was chased by the police at sea and wanted to change to the Dutch flag but couldn't find it. Brother: Only the French flag was found. Yuri: What the fuck? Brother: Turn the flag upside down and it becomes Holland. Yuri: This explains why you are my brother.
9. Yuri voiceover: I sold the bullets made by communism to fascism. I never sold it to bin Laden. It was not because of ethical issues, but because his cheques were always bounced back then.
10. Yuri's monologue at the end of the film: Do you know who inherited the earth? Arms dealer. Because humans are busy killing each other. The secret of survival is: never join the war.
There are many similar wisdom and humor in the whole film. Recommendation: 100%.
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