People in countries without war are prone to have unrealistic illusions about distant countries in war and poverty. For example, in West Africa, people imagine vast deserts and simple and poor residents. Poverty is real, but what war and poverty have brought to the West African world is close to primitive atrocities and looting without a bottom line.
"The King of War" uses a playful approach to show us the colors of the real world from the perspective of the arms dealer Yuri.
A world in a crack The
Yuri family are immigrants from Ukraine and run a small restaurant in the United States. Like other Ukrainian immigrants, they have their own circle and live in neighborhoods with poor security. Yu Rui didn't want to live like this for the rest of his life in a robbery case. At the same time, the robbery also gave him the idea of doing gun business.
The process of selling guns for the first time, Yu Rui has a kind of immature pretending to be proficient. When the buyer pointed a gun at him, he pretended to say lightly, you will definitely not kill me, because you will buy a gun from me next time.
Yuri was sober from the beginning. He grew up in chaotic neighborhoods and was familiar with the behavior patterns of these people. He knew that for a person who bought guns illegally, killing the dealer would be harmful to him. This soberness is also the difference between Yuri and his younger brother. Yuri's younger brother finally came to his senses at the cost of death.
Urui survives and expands his business in the cracks: He is crazy about learning business knowledge-mastering all kinds of firearms, creating a variety of fake identities, and personally going to dangerous places to trade. With excellent courage and proficient business knowledge, Yu Rui gradually emerged.
In the Second World War, the rules were
forcibly established by force. Yuri was a pure businessman. He sells weapons, but he is not involved in any political parties, wars and positions. This is his way of survival. If anyone in this world can be without political correctness and moral prejudice, it should be this outstanding arms dealer, Yuri.
Both sides of the conflict used his weapons, but he never sold them to Bin Laden, because this guy's check always bounced during that time. Because there is no standpoint, when the West African dictator shot his hand, his immediate reaction was: You actually killed someone with a gun that you hadn't bought yet! This gun has already been used, I can't sell it anymore, you must buy it! This reaction saved his life and is also an important reason for his business expansion.
The other side of Yuri is extreme caution and self-control. He was afraid of contracting AIDS and drug addiction, and refused to take the risk of a moment of joy to enjoy the beauty in front of him. He is not addicted to drugs. For one thing, he is lucky, but more importantly, he has strong self-discipline. At the same time, as a businessman, he can give up his assets. When the Interpol was about to catch the emergency, he gave a whole plane of arms to the people in the village for free. Of course, the people in the village took the plane down by the way.
Several conversations between You Rui and Interpol are thought-provoking. In desperation, Interpol detained Yuri for 24 hours. For these 24 hours, he did his best to help this world ravaged by war. And Yuri is not anxious, because the war never stops, either here or there.
The cold war is over, but the war is not over. The end of the Cold War is undoubtedly a period of rapid development for Yourui. The weapons lying in the arsenals of communist countries are the objects of competition among global arms dealers. With the loss of the socialist camp, Ureys are undoubtedly the best capitalist teachers for workers in these former socialist countries.
Human wars are endless, because people’s hearts want others to act according to their own rules. In war, you can enforce your own rules through violence. Democracy wants to promote democracy, and dictatorship also wants to promote dictatorship. Everyone does their own things, but they all actively emphasize that they are the spokesperson of freedom.
The original appearance of the Three Worlds is a chaotic
world, what is the essence of it? Is the war raging like in the news or the people of all countries unite towards world peace as in the textbook?
Maybe neither. The world is more like the ending of Yuri in the movie. There is no traditional drama of justice over evil, and there is no illusion that the world will restore peace from now on, and the world is still in chaos.
The peace that ordinary people look forward to will not come. This world does not have wars because of arms dealers, but even if they live in the same world, in the same country, in the same village, people are still squeezing and suppressing. At each other.
The macroscopic military conflict is a manifestation of the incompatibility of people's cultural concepts, religious beliefs, and lifestyles in the microcosm.
The essence of the world is the coexistence of extreme poverty and extreme waste, the simultaneous development of endless war and a high degree of civilization, the appearance of chaos in the extreme, and the gray that has been mixed with black and white.
Human beings will also move forward step by step in this gray.
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