Finally! A lead character who shares my philosophy of life!
The events of last month in New Orleans have proved me – and the main character – right. People are animals. Their default mode is to do evil, not good, and absent the normal bindings of family, law, and church they’ll revert to a Hobbesian state almost instantly.
The “Lord of War” knows this too and takes it another step further: if people are like to kill each other anyway, why shouldn’t I profit from the transaction? Morally it’s an untenable position: just because humanity has a tendency towards self destruction doesn’t mean you need to speed the process. Still, it’s an interesting thought. Even if it is only rationalizing one’s part in greasing the treads of the blitzkreig.
I wonder if I ought to have laughed the whole way through the film?