军火贩

我认为故事中除了明面上描述的两个小伙伴一起奋斗发财最终闹崩被捕的经历，还存在一条不算隐蔽的暗线。

先说暗线前半段：阿尔巴尼亚有一批大到吓人的陈年军火，由于加入北约前需清理，所以想抛售。亨利作为其代理，急着寻找买家，盯上了世界上最大的军火买家——美国军方。美国军方也想收这些便宜货，但受国内另一套系统的制约：亨利上了监控名单，无法直接和美国军方接触。双方在私下的眉来眼去后，确定了找一个公司做中介进行交易的方案。

接下来说依据：

一、一亿发子弹订单。这份订单其实很有意思，关键在于数量。打开百度搜索下战争中子弹的消耗，会发现这一亿发子弹实际上是个很鸡肋的订单，鸡肋到小的皮包公司凑不来，大的公司嫌少报价必然不实惠。电影中也只有主视角的主角和AEY觉得这个量大很难凑（阿尔及利亚有700多个军火仓库，这批子弹只是一个仓库中的子弹存量，美国军方面试也提及有其他家竞标。）。它更像是用来引出AEY这种有野心的小公司。

二、结尾亨利又找上主角，给了一笔钱，与其说是感谢更像是在拉拢合作。这就很有意思了，亨利只是上了监控名单，不是通缉犯。除了美国，他和其他人做生意都不受限，为什么还要拉拢主角？明显的，他和美国还有生意要做。

结合一和二来看，大致对暗线的后半段有个眉目了：确定了找中介，那么找什么样的中介？大公司肯定不行，因为过手费用高，这就背离了美军想买便宜货的初衷。所以一定得是小公司，还得是有想法的小公司。毕竟阿尔巴尼亚那么多便宜货，不是一两笔生意能搬完的。这么看来那一亿发子弹订单就更像一发诱饵，美军把标放出去，有心的小公司必然想凑，那么肯定会去拉斯维加斯参加国防科技博览会找机会。这也呼应了结尾主角问的第一个问题，亨利在拉斯维加斯碰到主角不完全是巧合，他在等符合条件的小公司上钩。同时一亿发子弹这个量也像是美国军方和亨利的一次试探性的交易，通过AEY进行小心翼翼的接触。虽然结局因为胖子的贪婪搞砸了订单，但暗线部分由于主角的口风严实，一点都没暴露。所以有了结尾亨利找上门，说明军方对和亨利及主角交易的保密性还是很满意的，还是想继续合作。

另外两人去军方面试那场戏也很有深意。一般在社会上招投标过的人都知道，明显过低的报价都是有问题的，但是军方负责人除了提便宜外没有任何疑虑，说明他们对这批货的来源心里是有数的。而且面谈中军方明显违规地把其他家的报价透露给AEY，说明什么？说明他们认为AEY已经知道自己在这笔交易中的地位和作用。然而死胖子并不知道，他还以为自己是运气好在拉斯维加斯碰上亨利，捡到了阿尔巴尼亚的便宜货。主角的话，最后会问出第一个问题，大概也猜到暗线了。最后亨利叫他不要再问了，我想也有“你现在猜到的都是对的”这一层意思。

胖子狡猾，会演戏，为了钱可能出卖一切。可惜太小气，不是干大事的料。剧中说那失踪的司机的叔叔是国防部的（胖子由此得知子弹真实价钱）。大军火商通过他知道有 阿尔巴尼亚 有子弹，于是找了男主和胖子。结果上当了，子弹是中国的，（冷战时，阿尔及利亚是中国在欧洲唯一的盟友，中国援助各种东西给这个国家。当然这是个白眼狼），大军火商被骗，而且司机还嘴大，出卖商业机密，于是杀死了司机。

最后大军火商为了感谢男主没有向fbi出卖他，给了一笔钱。可是男主不说，胖子也会说的。大军火商有这么好，奇怪。

胖子和男主在电梯说的话挺感动的。男主识破他的诡计。因为他前面就是这么骗这个骗那的。满嘴的谎言

Two masked men pull David Packouz (Miles Teller) out of a trunk and start beating him. One of the men holds a gun to David's face. We hear David's voice saying what kind of gun it is, and he adds that he is an international arms dealer.

We see clips of American soldiers posing with the gear and weapons. David says that while some people see a hero serving his country, he sees thousands of dollars worth of materials. According to David, that's what war is really all about: money. Anyone who says otherwise is in on it and is supposed to keep quiet.

The scene then switches to the year 2005 in Miami, Florida. David is a massage therapist making $75 an hour, living with his girlfriend Iz (Ana De Armas). On the side, David tries to sell bedsheets to a retirement home, but he learns that "no one gives a shit about old people".

At a funeral, David reunites with an old friend named Efraim Diveroli (Jonah Hill). They hang out after and try to score some weed from neighborhood drug dealers. Efraim gives them $300 for weed, but they pocket the money and ignore Efraim, showing off a gun to make him leave. Efraim walks to his car and pulls out a bigger gun from his trunk, which he starts firing off in the air to scare the dealers away.

David and Efraim discuss Efraim's new line of business - gunrunning. He explains to David how to exploit the war on terrorism for profit. David doesn't want to get involved at first, but when he learns Iz is pregnant, he figures he needs to make more money than he does now. He lies to her and tells her that he and Efraim are selling bedsheets to the U.S. army, which she is okay with.

After learning the ins and outs of arms dealing and checking through government contracts, David and Efraim start up their own business, AEY Inc, after getting funding from Ralph Slutzky (Kevin Pollak). Soon, the guys earn themselves a contract with the United States Department of Defense to deal weapons. However, they hit a snag when they have Berettas shipped to Jordan, unaware of Italian-made guns not being permitted to be shipped.

Efraim interrupts David during a dinner party with Iz and her friends. They have a conversation outside, but Iz overhears their business and learns the truth about what David is doing, leaving her pissed.

David and Efraim travel to Jordan and meet with smugglers that will help them retrieve the guns. They meet a man named Marlboro (Shaun Toub), who drives the guys to their destination. They stop to get gas in Fallujah, where the guys wake up and don't see Marlboro. Efraim finds a dead body inside the station, and sees that Marlboro is siphoning gas. David gets a call from Iz, who appears to forgive David for lying to her, even though the lying does bother her. Moments later, the guys see vans approaching, with men firing guns at them. David and Efraim try to get out of there, despite having an empty tank. Marlboro runs after them and hops onto the truck, filling up the tank as they drive. The guys are saved when a U.S. chopper descends, forcing the mercenaries to stop shooting.

The guys meet with Captain Santos (Patrick St. Esprit) to deliver the guns. He commends them for driving through the Triangle of Death, and the guys receive their payment.

Pretty soon, the guys are making more money and earning more contracts. They start hiring people to work for AEY, and they start doing business with a man named Henry Girard (Bradley Cooper), who is apparently a legend with closing big deals with the army. David and Iz also welcome a baby girl named Ella. However, Efraim becomes increasingly megalomaniacal, even firing one man on the spot just for correcting him on something.

David and Efraim then score "The Afghan Deal", which would allow them to supply the Afghan army with a number of weapons and ammunition. The contract came from China, which is a problem because the U.S. army has an embargo on the Chinese military industry, so Chinese ammunition is banned. Efraim has the ammo and weapons repackaged and shipped off anyway.

The guys have a falling out with their business when David and Efraim sort out their share of the payment. When David calls Efraim out on screwing people over, Efraim has the two men from the opening of the movie kidnap David and assault him. David breaks off his partnership with Efraim, especially after Efraim refuses to pay David and Ralph back for thousands of money owed to both of them. David decides to just go back to being a massage therapist.

David gets a call from a reporter regarding an investigation into the Afghan Deal. He knows he's in trouble. He heads down an elevator and meets Efraim in there. Efraim tries to make it look like he's sorry and that he considers David a friend, but David sees through the facade, which Efraim admits. David punches Efraim in the face. When they get downstairs, they are greeted by a whole team of FBI agents, and the two are arrested.

As the film comes to and end, David's voice-over says that Ralph was in on it with the FBI, but he gets apprehended as well. What did them in, however, was the packaging guy that Efraim never paid, so he ratted them out. Both men were charged with conspiracy and fraud. Efraim was sentenced to four years in prison, while David served seven months house arrest, allowing him to stay with Iz and Ella.

The last scene has David meeting with Henry. He starts asking a bunch of questions regarding their deals, until Henry pulls out a case full of money, which he offers to David on the promise of "no more questions."

本电影的观看是源于哔哩哔哩网站up主“嘻咦啊看”的作品“你通过代购买过的最不靠谱的东西是什么？”(//www.bilibili.com/video/av36829653?t=767)，由于其文案过于精彩，故而下载了电影并观看了两遍。

Efriaim，影片中无可争议的男一，是深得我喜爱的角色，由乔纳希尔饰演，是其继《华尔街之狼》中精彩表现后的又一次大放异彩，其举手投足，所言所行都具有无法抗拒的魅力，一如片中其偶像《疤面煞星》中的男主一样，贪婪、无畏、敢想敢做、为利益而藐视人情/法律/道德的职业军火贩。

观剧感触如下：

1.对军火贩而言，战争的意义在于每个士兵都是行走的美元，这将产生巨大利益。

2.没人关心养老院老人生活如何，而养老院是预算毫厘必争的地方。

3.当生活给人一记耳光时，比忍着更好的是当场打回去。舒心，无挂碍。

4.对于政府级顾客，即便是国际大承包商看不上眼的小生意，都足够个人赚的盆丰钵满。借用电影《黑金》名言：“我们的政府有钱啊” 类比：人们眼中盯着蛋糕，但洒落的面包屑也能吃饱人（如何做/如何分），更有专定制面包屑的老（硕）鼠存在。

5.军火贩可以反对战争，但需在商言商（This is about being pro-money），因为他们不上战场。相比私人的其他生路，无本质区别。

6.能够从别人身上打探到那个人愿意和哪种人打交道，然后自己就扮演那个人的角色，这是一种天才。（人际交往）

7.只要不择手段，就不会走投无路。但应亲力亲为。（见陆运手枪和子弹投标两情节），贪婪需要有机变配对。

8.社交：朋友聚会的目的，在于从背后谈论未到场者的所作所为、人生经历和真实面目，但每个人都有自己的故事版本。

9.当明白自己不能晓之以理的时候，就要主动的动之以情，而反过来，则须警惕，尤其当男人之间开始谈感情时，尤其对方主动时，就代表着自己要被算计了。

10.可以用钱说话的时候，可以省下好多废话，且更有效。

11.如果糊弄过人，那一定要明白糊弄人的感受。以防万一。

12.关于自己的信誉，从无到有，需要拿生命捍卫，尤其自己的事业在起步阶段，但也要考虑利润回报率。

13.网络和电话可以有效隐藏公司的经验和规模，但当面对面时，则都是“千年的狐狸玩什么聊斋”。

14.当别人拿着机会主动找到你时，则往往意味着拿小的利润承担大的风险，而你往往只能选择接受，如何保留选择？

15.公司/工作，做适合的人，做适当的事。

16.赝品是大家心知肚明的必需，也是留下的把柄。论“需要”存在的意义。

17.新手看有无，老手看多少。

18.对女人，如果骗，一骗到底，死不承认那种，但最好还是不漏痕迹。

19.对于真实的原因需要找到合适的掩饰借口，对于别人的主动提议，则要表现“深思熟虑”后的勉为其难接受。

20.朋友：用来卖或许价更高。

21.不要拖欠物流员工工资。

22.单身是冒险（发横财）的必要而不充分条件。有家有室的注定不是一路人。

在刷阿塞拜疆与亚美尼亚的战争报道时，我知道了这部影片的存在。看了下情节，顿时好斗的神经被撩拨得难以自制，马上动手找到了片源。

在影片最猛的桥段里，两个坏家伙带着一卡车意大利贝雷塔手枪，穿越死亡三角区来到巴格达绿区，先前还在臭骂他们不靠谱的美军指挥官立刻换了副嘴脸。这情节颇有网络爽文的特质。

美军仓库里一眼看不到头的美元现钞；东欧某国兵工厂里堆积得山一样高的武器弹药；还有子弹被从木头箱子里一把一把拿出来，放进透明塑料袋里称份量，就好像我们在零食店里称瓜子一样。

老天，这些场景太击中直男们的爽点了！

影片最后，两个坏家伙被联邦调查局抓起来调查，一场军火带来的“春梦”也就此结束。

角色方面，男二号那个胖子比较出彩，奸诈的笑声极有特点；那个中间商也很有意大利黑帮的腔调。

男一号嘛………长得像扎克伯格，被调查后没有供出中间商，中间商在影片最后给了他一箱子美元。

不知道他是真的老实，还是心机更深。

PS：总体上，这部片子的叙事方式有很明显的好莱坞特质，基本上是按照三幕剧的结构安排故事展开的。

这种“套路片”看多了容易腻，除非像这部影片那样在题材上有点新意。