Everyone chooses their own life at the crossroads, in fact, they choose a way to fight with themselves, with others and with the world. The movie "Lord of War" tells the history of the fortune of an arms smuggler through the mouth of Yuri Orlov played by Nicolas Cage. The story of the arms smuggler is wonderful, but we can also see an ordinary man from it. choice, struggle and helplessness.
When Yuri realized that killing was human nature, he found his life's work, serving the necessities of killing, that is, selling arms. At this moment, he has conquered himself, and his own words are: I only buy and sell arms, I don't kill people, the demand is there, and someone has to do it. He persuaded his own younger brother, Vitaly, to help him, and the two of them embarked on the road of arms smuggling. When Vitaly was still making borscht at his father's restaurant, he put a poster on the door saying "Be ware of the dog", which can be translated as "Beware of the evil dog in your heart", which means don't be fooled by your own Desire devoured, but both brothers were devoured by desire. Brother Yuri was addicted to the wealth and achievements brought by arms smuggling. After seeing the arms he sold for killing, younger brother Vitaly stopped helping his brother every day. Addicted to drugs, women and alcohol. After thinking about it for a while, you can find that although both of them are swallowed by desire, the elder brother has been hurting others, and the younger brother has always been consuming himself. The inner battle between the two runs through the movie.
Yuri has everything a man needs to be successful: the opportunities offered by a turbulent world, an innate talent for language and quick reflexes, a daring and careful approach to things, and an extreme dedication to his career. He started with a gun and has weapons he sells in several war zones around the world. He defeated his competitors, became friends with African presidents, and had interests with the U.S. military. He was clearly at the pinnacle of his career. As a foreign trade practitioner, I have to say that this is the highest level of a foreign trade manager. . But when it comes to this, this is also the limitation of a foreign trade practitioner, or the limitation of everyone. It is more obvious in foreign trade people. As a bridge, you can only improve your means to promote one thing or delay it. It happens, but you can't fundamentally reverse it. In any case, we are only a small link in the food chain, and such a link has no ability to change the entire ecology.
There is a desperate setting in the film, that is, Yuri's younger brother can't bear to see the carnage that is about to take place, tries to interrupt the arms trade, and is then shot to death; Yuri's competitors always stick to their political positions and strive to establish Order, tried to sell weapons to Liberian opposition in an arms deal and was killed. Yuri said in the opening credits, I'm not going to say a lot of good things to prove I'm a good guy, I'm just telling you what happened. People like Yuri are helpless, let alone ordinary people? Yuri said everything I did was legal. Yuri's wife Ava said, 'I don't care if it's legal, but it's wrong to do it! Every one of us has been kidnapped in this chaotic world, and as part of the social machine, how can we be sure not to do evil? Think about Google, think about Baidu, you will be more emotional.
At the end of the film, there is a very wonderful song in the film, which was written by the Canadian minstrel Leonard Cohen. The mood of the whole song is very consistent with the tone of the film. It is slow, complicated, and crooning, like the ashes after the war, like after a busy day, Leaning on the sofa, holding a glass of cold and strong whisky in his hand, he told himself that I was really tired and stupid today, and I really gained something, and I really don't know why.
Stories like this continue every day, and no one is the savior. If we are all the dust of war, how should we get along with the world? I'm not trying to reason with you, I'm just telling you what happened, and then please take pity on the man next to you.
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