"King of War"

Shanna 2022-04-21 09:01:21

With bullets all over the floor, a man in a suit calmly and confidently tells us about his life.
The Yuri family immigrated to the United States from Ukraine and pretended to be Jews in order to escape Jesus, as if the family had the habit of concealing and deceiving for the sake of living. Murder was common in the town, and Yuri was lucky to avoid it every time, until that day...he went to the restaurant to buy something, and he finally saw the power of the gun with his own eyes. He suddenly realized, "I'm enlightened, it's more memorable than being shot, you should open a restaurant, because everyone has to eat," people have to eat, so the restaurant will continue to open; similarly, people have to fight each other , so the tool of war has also become a basic need of people. So, on the second Sunday, Yuri, who never went to church, went to church with his father, but he did not want to get close to God, but to get to know the arms dealer, and the story officially began.
He began to sell his new pistol to various figures. With courage and eloquence, he successfully sold his first gun and gradually adapted to the rules and environment of the industry. For a big business, it needs a trusted partner. The simple and ignorant chef brother became the object of his persuasion. "Brothers joined forces".
After being shot into the stomach, the Urey brothers finally agreed to sell the weapons for 6 packs of cocaine, because the gun seller must not let himself die under the gun he sold. However, while Yu Rui was recovering from his injury, his younger brother disappeared, and a packet of cocaine disappeared. When Yuri found his brother's house and broke in, the scene in front of him surprised him. The woman on the bed, the Ukrainian map made of cocaine on the table, and the decadent look of his brother made Yuri angrily throw the coca on the table. Alkali smashed to the ground. The younger brother, who had become a drug addict, roared like a mad dog, sucking a dusty drug like a dog in a hurry. The harm in life always comes suddenly, especially when it comes with pride, Yu Rui is rich, but his younger brother is ruined.
By chance, Yuri got to know Eva, a beauty pageant champion with the face of an angel. In order to get to know Eva, he spent a lot of money on renting clothes, cars, hotels, and even private luxury planes. Finally, when he was on the verge of bankruptcy, Eva was tempted, and he used a mansion to embrace the beauty. At the wedding banquet, Eva, who was concerned, told Yuri in an almost begging tone that she would not ask what he did, she just hoped that they would not be in danger. Marriage leads Uri to the conclusion that there are downsides to marrying your dreaming girl because they have real moments too.
As Yu Rui's business grew bigger and bigger, the challenges he faced gradually increased, not only the follow-up investigation by the international police, but also the fierce competition from his peers. Wise was a former big arms dealer who disdained Yuri. As soon as the Ukrainian red regime collapsed, he immediately found the former Ukrainian military chief, hoping to buy former Soviet weapons. He has political acumen, but unfortunately, he is still a step behind Yuri. What's more unfortunate is that the chief of the Ukrainian army is Yu Rui's distant uncle, and Yu Rui's business is smooth. However, the failure of another negotiation made Wise unable to bear it. He installed a time bomb on Yu Rui's luxury car, and it was the Ukrainian military officer who was sent away. Yu Rui, who witnessed death for the second time, felt the fragility of life and the unknowability of life. The night was dark, and Yu Rui, who was standing at the sentry post, dialed the phone at home and listened to the gentle whispers of Eva who was woken up by the ringtone. Yuri tries to find the warm colors of life.
After a cat-and-mouse game with the police officer, Yuri, who arrives late, walks into a room prepared for him by a king in West Africa, along with his rival Wise. The king asked him to kill his opponent with his own hands, not because he hated Wise, but Yuri still couldn't do it. The air stalemate, the hand that killed countless people grabbed Yu Rui's hand and shot, the bullet was right between the eyebrows, and the blood-red glass revealed wanton danger. Yuri came into contact with death for the third time through his own hands. For a time, he was flustered, and his spirit was broken. He smoked cocaine in a bar and accepted a prostitute who was highly likely to suffer from AIDS, which he had repeatedly rejected. Everything he did was as close to death as possible. The gray sky, the house, and even the atmosphere made people unable to distinguish between day and night. Yuri was like a dead soul wandering on the edge of hell, a fear he had never experienced before. And the sense of desolation exploded in my chest like a bomb.
The undeterred home visits by the police officers made Eva begin to suspect Yuri, and despite her repeated pleas and even pressures, Yuri still looked indifferent and threw out "I'm good at it", thinking that it would be OK. Make the most reasonable footnote for the work he has done. However he did not want to give up Eva, he tried to do bleach work. However, his ability to call himself brothers and sisters with heads of state made the West African king never forget him, and he finally couldn't resist the temptation to resume his old business. In order to make a smooth transaction, Yu Rui once again found his younger brother, who had been detoxified and reformed, but he would never have expected that all the diamonds he had received would become half, and he would never have expected his younger brother to die because of this. At the delivery point, when my younger brother stood on the top of the hill and saw a large number of poor people in Africa, who would be slaughtered because of the success of the transaction, he did not hesitate to blow up the whole vehicle, and he was still struggling to pull the bullet even when he fell to the ground. When opening the second bomb pull tab, Yuri easily took the bomb and put it on the pull tab. In an instant, "Brothers Joining Forces" is nothing but a fairy tale, a hoax, a beautiful lie that the older brother made up to the younger brother at the expense of humanity.
Valentine is an international police officer with justice, integrity, and integrity. He knew that Yuri was smuggling weapons, but he let him go because there was no evidence. Every time he was arrested, Yuri would give a beautiful speech, he always said "even if I don't do it, someone will take my place", "the president of the United States is the real big arms dealer, but it is impossible Every weapon has his fingerprints on it, so he needs us guys...". For Yuri, there should be three enemies, one is Wise, one is Valentine, and the other is a moral conscience hidden in the heart. However, the third enemy is weak under the blow of money, and it is precisely because he has long neglected his conscience that Yuri's sophistry is so convincing.
The bullet is the bloodthirsty thing, it unleashes dazzling gold, it is a necessity of war, it humbles the lives of innocent people and makes the manipulator the king of war.

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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