It's a bitterly disgusting truth. The Merchant is like wandering through a maze of horrors in cloudy weather at midnight with a full moon. Here you walk along unknown paths dark and nothing is visible, like not scary, only occasionally runs cold on the back from an unpleasant feeling of inexorable inevitability. But once the moon looks out from behind the clouds and in the darkest corners you can see hideous monsters. There is no way to escape from them, only to overcome fear and disgust. These feelings are so strong that it is impossible to get rid of them, they can weaken, but the aftertaste and vile precipitation will not go away.
For me, this is the first and only film that does not feature positive characters. Unless it's just a victim, but it's a different status, different from a positive character. Consequently, such a work is very difficult to perceive, and is based on real events and completely unbalances, plunging the viewer into complete darkness and pressing from above the load of all the worst human vices.
The crimes committed by heroes cannot be justified or explained. Money? Profit? Saving a person's life? How many mirrors of the soul must be curved to so distort universal human values and the laws of nature, turning people into animals. Although no one has abolished the laws of nature for the latter, they follow, obey and live by them. What about people? Oh! It's a special breed! This species is very diverse. An ordinary person can turn into a beast or take the form of the devil, or he can remain himself, but be deprived of any principles, that is, be an absolutely unprincipled person - a carrion, a garbage in the end just a scrap.
People who live one day, what can they expect from life? Today you are the master of your destiny and you will ride with your sword and your heads will fly right and left. But at any moment, the unfortunate moment you do not have time to dodge and the evil fate or foe will still be able to put a jagged dagger in the back along the handle, and even at the same time have time to turn so that the victim would feel the whole range of pain. This is the logical end for those who live without looking back.
In our world and in truth, good and evil go hand in hand. And in "Merchants" we are shown an ulcer that is much closer to us than we can imagine. It feeds on human lives, vices and greed. And if you were in the wrong place and at the wrong moment you can stroke, and after a certain time you will replenish the lists of missing persons.
The film is not for faint-hearted, impressionable and weak-hearted people it is better to avoid. A work with a bitterly disgusting taste for daredevils ready to face the truth face to face.