[Movie·Notes] Lord of War

Vaughn 2022-03-21 09:01:19

When the curtain is opened, the truth is always terrifying. This era of pervasive media has woven countless lies and uncovered countless truths, so you must be prepared to face the best of times and also the worst of times. Don’t stubbornly believe in anything. Guard against being torn apart by this world.

"The King of War" is such a movie. There is not much conflict, not too much blood, not too much deliberate sensation. The whole story seems to be the arms smuggler played by Nicholas Cage sitting in a bar while drinking alone. I accidentally told the secret, but I believe that everyone will be shocked after watching the movie. Why? The truth, and it's not just the jaw-dropping smuggling methods and the tragedy created by Kalashnikov.

White being legal. Black being illegal. My personal favorites color gray. When

Yu Rui stood on the bridge and said this, he seemed to describe himself, but also seemed to describe everyone. Absolute justice is disgusting, absolute evil is terrifying, and people always live in the gray zone in the middle. No matter how many rules there are, we are always loyal to ourselves. Gray represents desire, various forms, various purposes. I must admit that I quickly forgot the moral code I should hold, because the film is not too inclined, but it is an objective description of what is happening and what is ending. The most emotional place is nothing but Uremo’s. A tear. This dullness made me numb, no, it should be said that it was ups and downs with Yuri, let me participate in his adventure according to the law.

You think I just sell guns, don't you?

I don't. I take sides

Yu Rui, who was first involved in the arms trade, was planning to find Jeff, a veteran arms dealer, to be a backer, so he felt ashamed. Jeff represents order and maintains the world's self-destructive order. Selling arms is just a means; Yuri only represents himself. He sold arms because "He was born as an arm dealer." In his opinion, killing and Food is also human nature. He is destined to meet this need. There is no order or political interest. The cold war ended and the enemy was gone. Jeff looked at a loss. He muttered "The state of chaos won't last forever. There must be order." in front of Yuri. But the world has indeed changed, and his game is over. Selling laundry detergent will also pollute the environment. The arms dealer may be an ordinary businessman, just buying things and selling things.

You do want him dead.. You just don't want to have to do it yourself.

There are no angels in this world, but there are no demons either. You may not care what he does, but he also knows that he cannot face the hell on earth caused by his own bullets and his own guns. In order to survive, one must stay away from war; no matter how many weapons he sells, he never gets involved in conflict, and everything has nothing to do with him after receiving the payment. He wanted to stay out of the matter, with countless reasons, countless rhetoric, and live amidst the lies he had woven. It's a pity that God didn't believe in the fairy tale of the butcher, so that his intolerable African "soldier" saw through his humble tricks with more vicious eyes, held his hand and beat Jeff to death, and said softly in his ear: " It is a sense of aillance.."

If I took them, I was lost. If I took them, I was lost too.
Uri’s younger brother Vitali died in the hands of an African “army chief” who broke the rules of the arms trade and tried to prevent a massacre. We all thought that Yuri would terminate the transaction, take the grenade in his brother's hand and blow up that car of munitions, and accomplish some kind of nirvana in death. He didn't, he just sat back quietly at the trading table and took the remaining diamonds. This is destiny. A story with a strong fatalistic color always makes people unconvinced, but everyone has their own track, but there is a difference between the ordinary and the extraordinary. The ordinary trajectory disappears in a noise. , It is unusual to attract everyone's surprised eyes, but it is essentially the same, no matter how many choices there are, there is one that will accompany for life, and this is also very common.






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Lord of War quotes

  • Yuri Orlov: [Offering Sierra Leonean natives free guns, rocket launchers and ammunition] help yourselves no charge everything goes free, don't forget the bullets you can't shoot a gun without bullets EVERYTHING GOES FOR FREE

  • Mbizi: [to Jack Valentine, holding a machete to Yuri's neck, while restraining his arms] Can we make him disappear? Around here people disappear all the time

    Jack Valentine: No, don't do it

    Mbizi: Look where we are, who will know?

    Jack Valentine: We will, his going to get what's coming to him

    Jack Valentine: [to Yuri] what are you doing in Sierra Leone?

    Yuri Orlov: [lying] I'm on safari

    Jack Valentine: [amused] Oh really? You're hunting wildebeest with a Submachine gun?

    Yuri Orlov: You also work with the park service? Hunting without a license? Is that the charge?

    Jack Valentine: Why are we playing games? You traffic arms

    Yuri Orlov: [protesting his innocence] Trade

    Jack Valentine: Trade, traffic you get rich by giving the poorest people on the planet the means to killing each other