Blow (Infinifilm Edition) (Region 1)
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Manufacturer : New Line Home Video Release date : 11 September 2001 Number of discs : 1 EAN : 0794043528422 UPC : 794043528422 DVD Region : 1
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Product Description Dramatization of the life of George Jung, the man who established the cocaine market in the United States. Genre: Feature Film-Drama Rating: R Release Date: 14-SEP-2004 Media Type: DVD
Amazon.com A briskly paced h
Product Description Dramatization of the life of George Jung, the man who established the cocaine market in the United States. Genre: Feature Film-Drama Rating: R Release Date: 14-SEP-2004 Media Type: DVD
Amazon.com 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 MedellÃn cocaine cartel, and blows it all with a series of police busts culminating in one final, long-term jail sentence. "Your dad's a loser," says this absentee father to his estranged but beloved daughter, and he's right: Blow is the story of a nice guy who made wrong choices all his life, 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 can't sympathize with Jung's meteoric rise to wealth and the wild life, and Demme isn't suggesting that we should idolize a drug dealer. So what, exactly, is the point of Blow? Simply, it seems, to present Jung's story as the epitome of the coke-driven glory days, and to suggest, ever so subtly, that Jung isn't such a bad guy, after all. Anyone curious about his lifestyle will find this film amazing, and there's 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 Jung's 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
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