Beach.<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<\/span><\/font>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/span><\/font>One day when Yuri was grown and doing nothing in particular, he entered another restaurant \u2013\u00a0just as Russian mobsters came in a mowed down some people with automatic rifles. Then their main target stood up and shot the two hit men. It was then that Yuri realized how significant firearms were to people and decided to become an arms dealer. After all, he says in the voice over, there are 550 million firearms in the world; that\u2019s\u00a0a gun\u00a0for one out of every twelve people. The question is: how do we get guns to the other eleven?<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/span>Yuri takes his brother to a gun show in <\/span>Berlin <\/span>and asks an arms dealer, Simeon Weisz (Ian Holm) to consider him as a partner. Weisz turns him down so Yuri proceeds on a small scale. Meanwhile he marries the girl of his dreams, a model named Ava Fontaine (Bridget Moynahan). She suspects that Yuri is into something but never inquires. They have a son, Nicolai (Jack Niccol). When the Red Curtain falls, Yuri contacts a relative in the Ukraine, a military officer, and gets access to millions of dollars worth of armaments and sells them to every country \u2013 or group \u2013 he can reach\u00a0that is at war. Meanwhile, Vitaly expresses doubt about gun running and descends into cocaine addiction and goes to rehab.<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<\/span><\/font>\u00a0<\/p>\nInterpol has its eye on Yuri and Agent Jack Valentine (Ethan Hawke) catches up with him many times, only to find that the evidence is gone and he cannot hold\u00a0Yuri on any charges. Then when Yuri discovers what a ripe customer the African continent is, he gets caught in difficult relationships with the dictators of Sierra Leone and Liberia in particular. Although his conscience nudges him, and his brother and wife articulate concern over his activities, Yuri keeps going, ever the optimistic, sophisticated gun runner. He does it because he\u2019s good at it. He keeps on doing it, even when tragedy and loss hit him the hardest.<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/span>Written and directed by Andrew Niccol, who gave us The Truman Show, Gattaca, Simone, a<\/i>nd The Terminal<\/i>, Lord of War <\/i>is a chilling expose\u2019 of legal gun running, based on a true story. Niccol\u2019s films, so far, have invited us to reflect on our humanity; Lord of War<\/i>, a dark comedy, demands that we do so.<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<\/font><\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\nThere is one one very subtle sign that Yuri and his ilk will one day have to answer to God. Yuri\u2019s father, though Not Jewish, lives as one. He especially he loves wearing the hat typical of orthodox Jews. His wife yells at him about it, and he says he likes to wear it because it reminds him that God is above him.<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/span>Nicholas Cage plays the amoral Yuri with charm, and Bridget Moynahan as his wife Ava, seems at first to be a minor player. But she is the one who tells Yuri when she discovers what he is doing, \u201cI have been a failure all my life, but I will not be a failure as a human being.\u201d<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\nLord of War<\/i> is an engrossing tale about the business and effects of gun running that is not illegal: especially the plight of child soldiers much like the recent film release Innocent Voices<\/i>. Lord of War<\/i> tells us that the biggest arms manufacturers in the world are the U.S., the U.K., Russia, France, and China \u2013 all permanent members of the U.N. Security Council. But it is Yuri who says it best: \u201cWho will inherit the earth? The arms dealers.\u201d Ironically it is Yuri who says, as he tries to rationalize his activities, \u201cIt has been said that evil prevails when good men do nothing.\u201d Believers will want to see this film through the filter of Catholic social teaching. Lord of War<\/i> is not comfortable viewing, but necessary for responsible citizens who care about people we don\u2019t see. And seeing this film may make us ask about the news stories we don\u2019t see and question just how it is we can live in freedom the way we do in this age of globalized economics. We might also ask who it is that profits from war.<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<\/font><\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\nTo tell you the truth, I thought that this film was like a narrative version of Michael Moore\u2019s Academy Award-winning documentary Bowling for Columbine <\/em>that traced the reality of guns in our culture and the culture of violence this breeds.<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<\/font><\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\nI think this film is a must-see.<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Yuri Orlav (Nicolas Cage) immigrated to Little Odessa in Brooklyn when he was a young boy in the early 1980\u2019s. Besides his parents (played by Shake Tukhmanyan and\u00a0 Jean-Pierre Nshanian) his little brother Vitaly (Jared Leto) came as well. 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