Blow
A boy named George Jung grows up in a struggling family in the 1950's. His mother nags at her husband as he is trying to make a living for the family. It is finally revealed that George's father cannot make a living and the family goes bankrupt. George does not want the same thing to happen to him, and his friend Tuna, in the 1960's, suggests that he deal marijuana. He is a big hit in California in the 1960's, yet he goes to jail, where he finds out about the wonders of cocaine. As a result, when released, he gets rich by bringing cocaine to America. However, he soon pays the price.
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- Cast:
- Johnny Depp , Penélope Cruz , Franka Potente , Rachel Griffiths , Paul Reubens , Jordi Mollà , Cliff Curtis
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Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!
Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.
All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.
Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable
This is a story about a man who opened the door to America for Pablo Escobar. Rise and fall of the first American king of cocaine. Johnny Depp nailed it as usual. Penélope Cruz is ugly as usual and she won the award for the worst Spanish actress. Deserved.7/10
When Johnny Depp is in this type of mode, I don't think there is a better modern day actor.Plot In A Paragraph: George Jung (Johnny Depp) grows up in a struggling family in the 1950's. His mother nags at her husband (A brilliant Ray Liotta) as he is trying to make a living for the family. It is finally revealed that George's father cannot make a living and the family goes bankrupt. George does not want the same thing to happen to him, and his friend Tuna, in the 1960's, suggests that he deal marijuana. He is a big hit in California in the 1960's, when he winds up in jail, he finds out about the wonders of cocaine from his cell mate. So when he is released, he gets rich by bringing cocaine to America. However, he soon pays the price.No movie about drug dealers, drug runners or drug users (except comedies) ever had a happy ending and this is no exception!! It's thoroughly downbeat, but utterly absorbing!! Depp is great giving one of my favourite performances of his, Cruz is OK as his love interest, but it's Liotta who I think steals this movie, by giving it some heart, despite it being Depp who is the core of the movie, and he does carry it for the majority of the time, Well directed and beautifully shot with a great soundtrack. I for one loved it.
Blow is a very original, and true story about drug lord George Jung who allegedly imported 85 percent of all of America's cocaine in the 1970's and has served as an inspiration for many other films. It is directed by Ted Demme. In the Film, George Young escapes from his poverty stricken life in a small town in Massachusetts to California where he begins to sell Marijuana. As business grows George and his friend Tuna begin importing there dope from Mexico. After a jail sentence, George gains connections in the world of cocaine and begins importing the drug from Columbia and distributing it throughout the U.S.A. Johnny Depp delivers a brilliant performance as his character gets more and more caught up in the wealthy lifestyle, betrayal, and risk of life as an international drug dealer. Blow demonstrated how a many can go from the highest point that a person to be, having more money than he could ever imagine, having a beautiful wife, and consuming large amounts of narcotics, to being stabbed in the back by his closest connection and having to run from the police. Blow is a story of success, money, drugs, but most of all regret. At the end of the film George asks himself from inside prison "Was it all worth it?" With his family destroyed, his money taken, and his heart broken, he simply answers "no".
"You be what you want to be, you pursue to be good you be so, if you hold the path that takes you down then that's it, it's your pretty life, make a right decision before you had to repent for what you had done, coz life doesn't come with an eraser or a correction pen"'A normal young youthful guy finds some difficulties with some finance and finds a lateral path to gain some dollars and get involved in some mischievous task of smuggling illegal drugs and get into the world of dreadful white powder, entirely co incidental' this what you predict with all those young boys who got involved in some drug smuggling, but it's not in the case of 'George Jung', he entered the world of drug with intentional just by looking at its profitable side, he could had led a happy life without getting involved in such bad stuff but he entered, and the result is the name - 'Boston George', huge cocaine trader ever seen in US history, he begins with minor distribution of Marijuana on the bay of California but gradually his greed of earning lot dollars makes him to get involved in large scale drug smuggling, but he gets caught while smuggling nearly 600 pounds of marijuana in Chicago, though he get out from legal clutches he is again caught handed to federals by his mother itself during his visit to his early house in New England, he is sent to prison in Connecticut and there he hits the lottery of smuggling cocaine with his new friend Diego, he gets contact with some huge drug dealers and starts to smuggle huge amount of cocaine, meanwhile he gets married to a girl by name Mirtha and leads a happy life, his life changes after the birth of his daughter, he gets cheated by his friend Diego in the business and leave the drug business, but he is busted again in his birthday party and faces various issues like unstable family condition, he loses his money and become popper, after his release he tries to rebound the relation with his daughter and promises her to take to California with him, the place she had earlier wished to go, George again holds the path of smuggling drugs to make some money but he get busted and sent to imprisonment for nearly 60 years and thus breaking his promise to his daughter, he records a tape addressing his father that he repents for whatever he had done and realizes his mistake and now he got to know his words that 'money is not real', he sees his daughter who had come to visit him but it just get to be his imagination, thus the film ends up with a credit lines.Such a wonderful script had been neatly portrayed on the screen by the director Ted Demme, Johnny Deep is just outstanding with his performance he shows up with perfectionism, if you really want to know about notorious drug smuggler 'George Jung' then this movie is the better watch, great movie with great message.