"People kill, not guns," Reagan said after being stabbed. This is, of course, to preserve the Republican self-respect, which is of course a political necessity.
But more importantly, he said almost all the unspoken rules known to everyone in the so-called American upper class. These high society are the bigwigs of the blue and green parties, the big families in New York, the Freemasonry... They monopolize all the roads you can see, black and white, everything. Horror, despair? A lot of people are tired of this set, and maybe that's a big reason why Hillary, the old fritter, lost to the idiot, Trump. But you cannot deny that these unspoken rules (or conspiracies) maintain long-term stability at home and balance the game of great powers internationally.
If you were not ultra-leftist when you were young, you are no longer young. There are always young people in the world who want to say "no" to the unspoken rules that everyone knows (like the cop and Cage's brother). This is excellent. They are fighting against the old rules of the old system under the guns of the old world. But in the end, they could only fall in batches, and some even became members of the society they hated.
George Bernard Shaw portrayed the munitions king, Undershef, in "Colonel Barbara." Under Shef wanted to pass on his arms business, but his son Stefan refused to accept it. Stefan thought that he was educated in the upper class, and all he received was the edification of the noble character of human beings. He despised his father's despicableness and unspoken rules, and his heart was full of youth's arrogance and unrealistic ideals. . Undershef smashed his innocent son. (The process will not go into details)
The policemen and Stephen in the film are a kind of people. Their preciousness lies in their unreasonable revolutionary impulse, but this is precisely their sadness. They think that their noble ideals must be right, and that the unspoken rules of despicability and darkness should be sent to hell. But in essence, there is no right or wrong in the world, and there is no way to distinguish right from wrong. At the end of the film, the president of the United States condoned the arms business and turned a blind eye to the arms dealers played by Nicolas Cage. This is certainly against morals, but who can say that without these indulgences, the current balance between powerful countries can be maintained?
Life is too hard, no one can give you the right answer.
But I agree with Nicolas Cage's last sentence: "Never get involved in a war, especially with yourself." I translate it as: "Since there is no way to tell right from wrong, follow your heart, or at least go with the flow." This is what those naive ultra-left youths lack most.
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