In the whole film, child soldiers are carefully cultivated by drug lords and become the most convenient weapons in their hands. They are mysterious and special beings in the golden triangle, and at the same time, this "three no matter" area is shrouded in a dark and vicious atmosphere.
The first scene depicts dolls in drug lords' nests and their living conditions. At the moment I saw it, the whole person fell into an incredible mistake. It seems to us that he is smoking and taking drugs at the age of flower bones. The eyebrows and eyes are full of chilling ridicule and fearlessness. Obviously, they are still naive, but their undisguised aggression shows that they are different from their peers. They are bloodthirsty, they are belligerent, and they are not afraid of life and death.
The second shot is a bit scary. Guo Xu of the action group shot and killed one of the suspected drug dealers, and suddenly a little boy who was only 8 or 9 years old rushed out. That boy looks as if he has just left school, wearing a simple white T-shirt and carrying a shoulder bag, straddling his waist when we go to school. So Guo Xu hesitated for three seconds. In this short three seconds, the boy reached into his bag, pulled out his gun, and screened the men who were twice his height, without any hesitation and careless action. Because of this unexpected child soldier, Guo Xu had to amputate his leg to survive, and his sister Guo Bing became a crybaby.
? The third shot is still difficult to pass. Two children were gambling in the den of drug lords. They pulled the trigger with a gun to their head. Whoever falls first will lose. Not to mention whether this bet is too absurd, the most unimaginable thing is that when one of them lost and was shot, the children who won the money and the onlookers were happy. No panic, no sadness, just like an ant died instead of a person.
What makes people feel the power of child soldiers directly is that a child blew up the whole building at the cost of a suicide bomber. During the arrest of Noka's eldest son Natu, Noka said to the child above, "You are my most powerful warrior." The child sneaked into the building with a bag full of time bombs on his back. What is even more intriguing is that another older boy who covered himself from entering the building, just like the program was set, didn't care about the life and death of the people inside, just like pressing the elevator to detonate the bomb naturally, and the whole building collapsed and became a ruin.
Child soldiers were arrested by drug lords at an early age, brainwashed and controlled by drugs, and completely turned into a sword. They only see the orders of drug lords, and only money, drugs and bloodthirsty can make them happy. The whole golden triangle has become more mysterious because of such a specific existence.
Baby soldiers are not the patent of the Golden Triangle. Since 1950s, "Boy Scouts" have never stopped in the ranks of the remnants of the Kuomintang, Khun Sa drug cartels and local armed gangs in Myanmar today.
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