Warlord or Lord of War

Rating: 8/10 (27 June 2013)

'Lord of War', the word which the African dictator used to describe himself in the movie, was adopted as the title, instead of the word warlord, which is more idiomatic in the eyes of native English speakers that Yuri tried hard to correct him a few times repeatedly.
This does not come with no reason. This movie leads its audience to reevaluate who is the ultimate warlord while we are pointing fingers to those dictators for their cruelty and the bloodshed provoked.
From the dialogue in which the dictator spoke to Yuri, the throne of 'lord of war' should, indeed, be crowned to men like Yuri who could smuggle whatever arms he needed under the surveillance of Interpol and world power.
However, more surprisingly, from Yuri's perspective, it's ultimately those mighty world leaders, who have been, de facto, permitting illicit trading and smuggling of arms under their eyes for self-interest.
Therefore, I speculate the writer wants us to reevaluate who, some hypocritical world leaders or the tyrants, should bear a greater responsibility for the bloodbath happening around us. Who, Warlord or Lord of War, is the more sinful?
After watching the movie, I start to doubt if we have the right to flame on those tyrants when our mother countries actually manipulate, empower and live on them. Perhaps, it's why the dictators were not heavily criticized in the movie but the world leaders and gunrunner businessmen.
P.S. kinda sad to see Yuri did not respond to Vitaly's 'Ukrainian Brothers In Arms' at last, that's also the pivotal point Yuri became a professional yet emotionless gunrunner on his own.