Blow [Blu-ray] starring Johnny Depp,
Penelope Cruz, Franka Potente,
Rachel Griffiths, Paul Reubens
Blow
A briskly paced hybrid of Boogie Nights and Goodfellas, Blow chronicles
the three-decade rise and fall of George Jung (Johnny Depp), a normal
American kid who makes a personal vow against poverty, builds a
marijuana empire in the 60s, multiplies his fortune with the Colombian
Medellín cocaine cartel, and blows it all with a series of police busts
culminating in one final, long-term jail sentence. Your dads a loser, says
this absentee father to his estranged but beloved daughter, and hes right:
Blow is the story of a nice guy who made wrong choices all his lif e, almost
single-handedly created the American cocaine trade, and got exactly what
he deserved. As directed by Ted Demme, the film is vibrantly entertaining,
painstakingly authentic... and utterly aimless in terms of overall purpose.
We cant sympathize with Jungs meteoric rise to wealth and the wild life,
and Demme isnt suggesting that we should idolize a drug dealer. So what,
exactly, is the point of Blow? Simply, it seems, to present Jungs story as
the epitome of the coke-driven glory days, and to suggest, ever so subtly,
that Jung isnt such a bad guy, after all. Anyone curious about his lifestyle
will find this film amazing, and theres plenty of humor mixed with the
constant threat of violence and paranoid anxiety. Demme has also
populated the film with a fantastic supporting cast (although Penélope Cruz
grows tiresome as Jungs hedonistic wife), and this is certainly a compelling
look at the other side of Traffic. Still, one wishes that Blow had a more
viable reason for being; like a wild party, it leaves you with a hangover and
a vague feeling of regret. --Jeff Shannon
Features:
* There?s no money in a ?real job.? So George Jung deals pot. Lots of it.
The blue-collar kid dubbed Boston George spirals up from there, into the
riches and excesses of the huge cocaine cartels. And crashes hard.
Johnny Depp portrays George, the ambitious outlaw who, perhaps more
than any American, transformed powder cocaine from relative obscurity in
the U.S. into a 1970s/80s feeding frenzy. Penel
This was one of the best performances I have seen by Johnny Depp. It
showed the in depth view of the cocaine industry and just how powerful the
King of Coke really was (Escobar). Im really surprised that George Jung
didnt get sent to prison more often. All in all I would recommend this movie
to anyone that wanted to know more about not only the cocaine industry
but the life and wild times of George Jung.
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