According to news sources, on the evening of April 13, the United States, together with the United Kingdom and France, launched a "precision strike" against Syria without the authorization of the United Nations Security Council, firing more than 100 missiles.
For such things as political games and politicians acting, it is difficult for us to really get a glimpse of right and wrong, and what really makes us sad are those innocent people who were injured and killed in the war.
Yesterday's 3-minute video produced by CCTV "Syrian children tearfully ask, what did we do wrong?" "In my circle of friends brushed the screen, people who have seen it can not suppress the grief in their hearts.
While the role of the United States in this matter seems to be somewhat controversial, the United States has played a role in many wars around the world. Sometimes, American capitalists also make a lot of war money.
Hollywood has made a lot of movies that have been made for the war dealers, such as the one I will introduce today.
King of War
Lord of War
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Yuri (Nicholas Cage), an American immigrant from Ukraine, runs a Ukrainian restaurant in Little Odessa, New York, and the standard of living is average but decent.
Yuri is ambitious and intelligent, and his daily dealings with borscht and diners make him feel that life is meaningless.
By chance, he witnessed the fire of the street gangsters and the scene, the crunch of bullets shooting out of the barrel and the clanging of shells on the ground playing the hellish music that knocked his heart open.
Yuri is fascinated by the "death scythe" that can easily take people's lives, but he is not fascinated by violence, but with the interests behind violence.
He wore the bullet into a necklace on his chest, and from then on, with the mission of "providing people with another necessity of life, arms", he went in the opposite direction of his previous life.
Yuri began experimenting with arms trafficking, initially retailing with some local gangsters in the United States.
Yuri seems to be very talented at this kind of shady smuggling business, and he is very easy to do.
This kind of business comes quickly, the market is big, and it is richer than a family running a restaurant.
But smuggling is a laborious job, and Yuri needs a partner who happens to have a ready-made one by his side — his younger brother Vitali (Jared Leto).
The brothers certainly did not eat black, and after the two brothers made a bottle of vodka on the roof, they decided to join forces to smooth the muddy waters of smuggling arms.
Yuri didn't waste his talents, things went very well, and the smuggling business grew bigger and bigger.
From home to abroad, from the Americas to Africa, Yuri is like a hyena, wherever there is the putrefaction of war, he appears wherever there is.
He learned the means of smuggling very quickly.
Forged identities, Yuri has several different identities. Each identity has detailed biographical information, and it is done without leaks.
Dealing with Interpol, he temporarily changed the name of the ship he was targeting, and then used a pile of sprouted potatoes to hide the sky from the sea.
Buy arms to find Yuri, there is no deal that this shrewd businessman can't do.
The world's warlords with heads and faces all have business dealings with Yurui, and Yurui has slowly become a big man in the arms industry.
After the end of the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union, Yuri's business was even easier.
With the collapse of the Soviet Union, the large quantities of arms in the Ukrainian arsenals prepared for war were temporarily left unoccupied.
Yuri relied on family ties to take advantage of the situation, transporting the world's top military equipment from Ukraine one after another, becoming one of the world's largest arms dealers at that time.
Smuggling arms made Yuri step by step, luxury cars, mansions, private planes, he earned money that he could not earn by opening a hundred restaurants.
He also realized his ultimate dream of life - marrying the movie star Ava home and giving birth to a son for himself.
People can't go smoothly in a lifetime, and trouble will come soon.
First, his younger brother Vitaly became addicted to drugs.
Vitaly has always been conflicted about his brother Yuri's business.
On the one hand, the brothers did make a lot of money by smuggling, which was a big money that they had never dared to think of before. On the one hand, every bullet sprayed from the mouth of the gun smuggled out of his own hands may be harvesting human life, which is equivalent to killing innocent lives.
This ambivalence made Vitali miserable, and in order to relieve the pressure, he became addicted to drugs and smoked them to the point of nearly killing his life.
In desperation, Yuri had to send his brother to a drug rehabilitation center, and he wandered alone on the battlefield to continue smuggling.
Another trouble is the international criminal police who are chasing after each other.
The well-known Yuri has long become the focus of the Interpol, checking at both ends of the three days, and if you can't find evidence, you will be detained for 24 hours, at least you can't do business for a day.
But the ultimate trouble is Yuri himself.
Although Yuri sells guns, he never uses guns. In other words, Yuri is a self-righteous person, and in his perception, smuggling arms is just a way to make money, and he has never forced others to shoot and kill.
Until Yuri half-pushed and half-killed his competitors, and his hands were stained with real blood for the first time, he had to start to face up to his actions, whether it was right or wrong.
Yuri tried to wash his hands in the golden basin and do some serious business in oil and wood.
But fate does not seem to intend to spare this "natural arms dealer", and the former big patron took the initiative to come to the door to buy arms.
The huge diamond was in front of him, but Yuri still couldn't refuse.
Yuri decides to take another vote with his brother, and although his brother Vitaly is reluctant, he decides to make one last trip for Yuri.
Unexpectedly, this last trip killed him.
Witnessing the tragic situation of local refugees in Africa, Vitali persuaded his brother to give up, but Yuri was difficult to ride the tiger, and if he did not do this business, he would lose his life.
Seeing no hope of dissuasion, Vitaly chose to detonate a truck filled with ammunition with a grenade, and was shot dead in a foreign country.
Yuri, who was shot at, completed the deal with the remaining ammunition and returned home with his brother's body.
During airport security, a bullet missing under his brother's ribs attracted police officers from the Firearms Administration.
Interpol was thrilled to finally get the evidence, and the international arms dealer was finally arrested.
But Yuri is calm because he knows that some people won't sit idly by and watch themselves go to jail, or even be prosecuted.
Sure enough, Yuri walked out of the police station unscathed.
His brother is dead, his parents have broken off from him, his wife and son have left him, and smuggling arms has given him everything and now he has nothing.
But do you think Yuri will change from now on and become a new person?
Wrong, Yuri is still doing his old job. Transport arms from one end to the other, from the arsenal to the most chaotic and poorest places in the world, and give them to those whose fate has never been in their own hands, and let them kill each other.
Lord of War, Yuri became the true king of war, a lonely king who wandered on the edge of civilization and morality.
"The King of War" is known as the end of a generation of movie emperors Nicholas Cage.
Later, for 7 years, Nicholas, who was in debt because of bankruptcy, kept receiving bad films in order to pay off debts, and people gave him the nickname "The King of Bad Films".
Two words "heartache" and three words "true TM heartache".
But today's focus is not on Nicholas's history of the fall, let's move on to the movie.
The King of War is an arms dealer's autobiographical film, in which about 60% of the plot comes from real people's experiences. This man is Victor Bout, the world's largest arms smuggler and "businessman of death."
And this real-world "Yuri" also provided huge sponsorship for the production of "King of War".
▲ "Death Merchant" Victor Boot
The 3,000 AK-47 rifles used in the film are all real guns, but the reason for using real guns is really ridiculous - because prop guns are more expensive than real guns!
Don't believe it, this is not surprising in the United States, which is full of gun shops.
Not only guns, but even tanks are real.
Rows of tanks like a parade, owned by an arms dealer, were all transferred to Libya and sold after the film was made.
But compared to the movie itself, these are just tidbits.
What really makes "King of War", an autobiographical commercial film, rank among the Douban TOP250 high-quality films, is its exploration of war and human nature.
"The King of War" seems to be a bit unnamed, and there is almost no depiction of war scenes throughout.
The cleverness of it is that although there is no artillery fire and flesh and blood, the audience can still feel the tragic results of the war through the film.
For example, an African boy struggling with a gun and a broken wall full of single holes in his back.
For example, a mother and son who were hacked to death for no reason.
Use a variety of non-war scenes to show the losses and traumas brought by war. "Hearing thunder in the silence" is often more shocking.
Compared with war, the film portrays human nature more bluntly.
From the entry of the rookie to the spring breeze to the destruction of the family and then to the return to the old business, Yuri's road to arms trading is not smooth.
From the conflict to the entanglement of the heart to the numbness, the trade-off between interests and morality makes Yuri even more miserable.
At the end of the film, Yuri's composure when he is arrested and imprisoned shows that he knows very well that he will never have an accident when the upper-class bosses still need such a pawn.
Yuri knew this from the beginning.
But when intervening with Interpol, Yuri tries not to choose this "cheating" method to exonerate himself, because he does not want to tear off the last layer of disguise that he is not breaking the law (in fact, taking advantage of loopholes in the law).
In other words: in the face of the reality of right and wrong, Yuri has been choosing to deceive himself.
From Yuri's experience, we can extend a deeper meaning, a political or interest group choice: life is worthless compared to money.
There are many movies about the war theme of the Third World, such as "Blood Diamond", which is also a Douban TOP250.
Tracing the roots of such films, the ultimate core is still "profit-driven people's hearts".
The forces controlled by capital are tilted against each other, and in the end, it will always be those who live at the bottom who are powerless to resist.
Whether it is diamonds or arms, the root of evil is always the endless greed of man.
Seeing this, do you still think that war is the best choice to resolve disputes?
I hope that today's words will inspire you, me, and everyone.
Finally, poison king made a wish for all the bitches: My wish is world peace.