"Lord of War"
Thats the name of a movie I saw this weekend...very interesting movie!!
A very sadistic but a so very true film I have seen in a long time, it makes you think on things like how to a few people war is the most profitable business and to what extent can they go to make sure that their business is always profitable.
Nicholas Cage, through out the movie understands that what he is doing is so bloody wrong but he saves himself from getting involved in it by saying "Its not our war". Countries like US, UK, Russia, France and China the 5 permanent members of the UN security council are the biggest producers and exporters of arms and nuclear weapons in the world...and yet these are the countries which are the champions of the war again terrorism, talks for peace when the very people dying in civil wars in Africa, south east Asia, Middle east or South America are killed by a weapon produced in their factories...I wonder how that works out?? The defence budget of US, is larger than most of the African countries put together...every day there are thousands of children dying in Africa coz they do not have access to food, while the youth of Africa are dying of AIDS and the rest of disease if not prolonged civil wars.
I will not say I enjoyed the movie, but what I saw was the truth and it hurts!!
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Hmmm. I'll have to go check it out, it sounds interesting. I'm tempted to go rent it out now, stupid exams...
BBB
You know the best part about the movie is the end - They'll keep him alive today because they need him. They need someone to sell their arms to governments; even if those governments use the arms in genocides. War is a profitable business.
Lyndon B. Johnson couldn't have put it better when he talked about the Military-Industrial complex. That was over 40 years ago!
Heaven knows how many real Yuri Orlovs exist out there.
Yeah, I've seen the movie with a friend of mine a couple of months ago when it was playing in the cinemas here in Croatia. My friend liked it a lot and I must admit that I myself was quite surprised at the brutally realistic picture of our world painted in the movie. I find it to be one of those movies that stay with you for a long time after you've seen it. No, I wouldn't go see it again, but I am also not going to forget the questions it raised that will never really be answered... not "officially" anyway!
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