 I just got back from watching Kingsman the Golden Circle and I'm going to do a movie review but this review is not going to be like any other movie review on YouTube so stay tuned. And if you haven't seen the movie yet I have to warn you that there will be spoilers. I repeat there will be spoilers and if you decide to leave come on back after you see the movie. What's up everybody this is Chris from the Rewired Soul where we talk about the problem but focus on the solution. And if you're new here, if you're just now joining my channel is all about mental health, about addiction, about all sorts of stuff and today I'm going to be focusing on Kingsman the Golden Circle but I'm going to be talking about some topics when it comes to drugs, the war on drugs and the state of America right now because this movie actually touched on a bunch of those topics and I don't think many people are going to be discussing them in this way. So just to lay out the plot for you first we're going to talk about the villain Miss Poppy played by the lovely Julianne Moore. Today marks the beginning of a new age but I'm going to show you say goodbye to the Kingsman. So Poppy is a drug lord alright basically she's in charge of most of the drugs all around the world and because she is she has to live in hiding she lives in a very secluded area in a place that is not even discovered by the rest of the world and what she wants to do is do what she does legally. She talks about how she is one of the most successful business women in the world but nobody even knows who she is because what she does in her business is actually illegal and she thinks drugs should be legal and people should know how amazing she is. So what she ends up doing is tainting a bunch of the drugs with a killer virus. When you use her drugs you get this disease that turns your veins blue and that's the first symptom and then you start getting into this like dance craze which then leads to paralysis and then you stop breathing and like your eyes explode and blood starts shooting out all over the place. It's not a good look. So what she does is that she holds the United States or the world rather ransom. Her demands are that unless you sign an executive order that makes these drugs illegal and you make me immune to any kind of legal ramifications all these people are going to die because I'm the one who has the antidote. Now this is a topic that I have discussed on this channel and I'll put a link up in the info card above my head. I have talked about the legalization of weed and how I actually voted for recreational marijuana use here in Las Vegas well in the state of Nevada and this is a big deal. When we're talking about the war on drugs this is a very very failed war. We are criminalizing. We are locking people up because of their drug use and while Poppy in this movie she's just trying to do it to get fame and so people know who she is. This is actually a bigger issue with people using drugs. So many of these drugs are non-lethal and things like that and we've seen from the prohibition days that when things are illegal more people are actually going to use them whereas we could not only reduce the harm that these drugs do but we could also tax them it would fuel the economy as we've seen happen in many many many states. So that point of the movie I think is very very relevant and some of these next points are extremely relevant as well because we're talking about the decriminalization of drugs which I also did another video about Oregon is starting to do that more and more. Next we're going to talk about the president of the United States. The president of the United States is played by Mr. Bruce Greenwood. So once they get the demands from Poppy and the president talks to her and he's like okay we'll meet your demands and all this stuff and he gets off the phone with her, his vice president's in the room and she's talking about how they can spin this thing and it's not really complying with terrorists and all that stuff but the president's like I'm not going to meet her demands what are you crazy and he starts talking about how he's just going to let all these drug users die. His idea is these people are doing something illegal, get rid of them all, they all deserve to die so I'm just going to make everybody think that I'm going to submit to these demands but I'm really going to take my sweet time and let all these people die and the vice president is all like what what are you talking about these are people these are actual people we can't just let them die and the president's like well guess I shouldn't have done drugs in the first place and what they start doing they start rounding all the people who have been infected by this virus up and they put them in this big football stadium and they're all locked in these cages basically just waiting to die. Later we find out his vice president was actually a recreational drug user and she is in the Oval Office when she starts to get the blue veins and showing the first symptoms of being infected by this virus and that's when she makes a plea to him like hey we got to get the antidote from Poppy or I'm gonna die and the president basically sits back and he's like well guess you should have known better and she ends up getting shut off to one of these football stadiums where they're keeping everybody. Now this is some real stuff that we need to talk about right now. This is the narrative that a lot of people have is that drug users should die they're a joint on the economy and we're looking at them as things and a lot of people think that they should just die off. I've even seen hateful comments talking about natural selection and often times when I do these videos I talk about how these are mothers these are fathers these are sons these are daughters these are friends these are colleagues these are so many different people one point that the vice president brings up to the president when he's saying this to her is like I work for you 20 hours a day and maybe some people can do that without a chemical but I need that just to keep my mind right and this is a whole another topic but it's true a lot of people turn to drugs and alcohol because of the stresses they endure at work and the president being Mr. Goody two shoes thinks that these people should die in reality most people use drugs recreationally but if you check out my videos about the actual disease of addiction and how this works some people are genetically predisposed to addiction everybody tries drugs most everybody tries drugs but some people are prone to becoming addicted now I hate to say this and I will anyways when watching this I couldn't help but wonder like this made a very good point I couldn't help to wonder is is this what our current president is actually doing if you've been keeping up with my channel or you've been keeping up with the news when President Trump is talking about the opioid epidemic or Jeff Sessions talking about what we're doing to eradicate this thing we have to look and see what are they actually doing now I did do a video about a week or two ago about things that they're moving forward but an update on the president declaring a national emergency when it comes to opioid epidemic he said this publicly he said that this is a national emergency but saying that doesn't really doing anything updates have shown us that the president hasn't actually signed into anything any official documents that we are declaring a national emergency what this means is is that when there is a national emergency a lot of funds are allocated towards fighting this epidemic and President Trump actually hasn't done that yet so as I'm watching this movie I have to question is President Trump actually doing something like this is he actually just trying to make himself look better to get his approval ratings up or does he actually have a plan of action is he actually going to sign this in a document that this is a national emergency or is he willing to just let these people die because if they died they're not going to be able to vote for him in four years anyways just something to think about only time will tell on that one lastly I'm going to talk about whiskey whiskey is one of the statesmen that's part of the plot Kingsman gets blown up the statesmen are their American cousins and whiskey is like their main dude and we come to find out that whiskey actually is a traitor and after he gets shot in the head and brought back to life and he's shown a picture to jog his memory back clearly he lost somebody close to him a woman wife girlfriend fiance what is it well we come to find out that the reason why whiskey actually slapped the antidote out of ex's hand is because his wife was pregnant with their child and she was killed at a convenience store robbery by two meth heads so he has a personal grudge against people who use drugs and he wanted all of these drug users to die because of this personal vendetta that he has this is very real I remember on countless occasions people have asked me Chris how are you so compassionate to these people who hate drug addicts who hate drug users how are you so compassionate towards them because I know for a fact that many of them have been hurt by drug users in the past in some way shape or form me I'm a prime example my mom was an alcoholic my whole life she's coming up on 12 years sober but for 20 years I was raised by an alcoholic mom alcohol the disease of addiction it screwed me up as a kid it actually led to my addiction so I was directly affected by an addict so I have to show compassion to these people who have so much anger or hatred inside of them towards addicts because I know that most of them in some way they have been affected by drugs maybe it was a cousin who stole from their family member maybe it was their brother maybe it was their sister a lot of them have parents maybe it was a situation like this where a drug addict killed or robbed somebody that they loved and now they have this deep rooted resentment towards them so that's something else that we need to talk about so I'm really glad that I got to do a movie review about Kingsman because I love Kingsman I'm a I'm a big action fan it was a great movie if you haven't seen it yet go see it I think it was better than the first one but I want to do more videos like this where I bring up these underlying topics when it comes to mental health when it comes to addiction when it comes to drugs when it comes to alcohol so if you like this video please give it a thumbs up leave comments down below I'll 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