“Lord of War” tells a story like this: Cage plays a Ukrainian immigrant boy named Yuri, who is unwilling to spend the rest of his life in his father’s restaurant, and by chance, he sells a gun, and since then he has discovered his talent as an arms dealer, and finally becomes the world’s most powerful arms dealer. At first glance, it looks a lot like a typical “American dream” that allowed Yuri to make a lot of money, marry the lover of his dreams, live in a big house in Brooklyn, New York, and sit on a Cadillac. If Yuri sells not arms but Coca-Cola, this is indeed a perfect “American dream”, but he sells arms, so his younger brother can’t resist the pressure and takes drugs, and finally ends up with Yuri’s arms, his parents cut ties with him, and his wife, a former advertising star, left him with their son, all this just because Yuri sells arms. However, if you also make a lot of money, is there a difference between selling arms and selling oil and selling Coca-Cola? This is Yuri’s question, and it is also the film’s question.
Yuri is a good arms dealer, in the film, when he was pointed at the head at gunpoint, he remembered to ask the other party if he wanted a silencer, he could keenly feel where the most profitable place was, when the Soviet Union collapsed, Yuri was the first Westerner to rush there to resell arms, when finally his beautiful wife asked him if he could not do the arms business, Yuri replied: I am very good at this. Yes, he is very good at it, and if he is good at making pies or finding oil, he may get a medal for it, but he is the best at selling arms. Yuri is a good person, he is completely a good person to his parents, brother, wife, and son, and even Interpol, who has followed Yuri for many years, can’t find any evidence that Yuri is a traitor. Yuri was out on business, and when he got home, he would remember to bring his son back with a telescope and throw his toy pistol in the trash. In order to take care of his wife’s self-esteem, he would go to the gallery and quietly buy his wife’s paintings back. He took his younger brother to get off drugs and gave him one last puff of drugs before he got out of the car.
The crux of the matter is that Yuri is an arms dealer. But is it wrong to be an arms dealer? What is the difference between an arms dealer and other merchants? Yes, it is true that the arms sold by Yuri were used to kill each other, the question is, without those arms, those who would have killed each other would have been able to live in peace? It should be said that there is a demand for a market, just as someone is thirsty and there will be a drinker, just like someone who smokes will there be a tobacco seller, and the one who sells drinks and cigarettes are living well, so why should the family of the arms seller be ruined?
At the end of the film, Yuri is finally caught by Interpol.