Blow (2001)

Oh Black Betty...

This movie is simply awsome!!! If you are a fan of Entourage and you have seen the Medelin episodes, then you have something great to compare this too. Blow is to Medelin episodes as BLOW is to sleep...

Buy this movie and stay up ALL NIGHT watching it...You will want to snort Johnny Depp up your nose. November 10, 2008

"One of the best"

-BLOW-

When I first watched blow I was blown away by the story line it's just incredible. The man of gorge Jung who persuade happiness or though he thought. It shows how it is easy to get rich selling drugs. But the

consequences are permanent. I would encourage little kids to watch this and decide for them self "do want two lives like this?" It's true that money is not everything George Jung thought he had a perfect wife and the perfect life. But with selling there's always twist and turns, it would

of bin a lot worse for George Jung. George Jung did crash on burn but he did not stop there. He tried to make things better but at the end he was set up and went to jail for the last time, for a long time. It's not easy

to get away from cops; they will always nail you for the big stuff. This is why I encourage for kids to watch this and see what kind of destruction the life of drug dealing can cause. The movie did paid respect to the chronology of George Jung's career. George's chronology is base on his life. The movie shows a lot of respect to George and

everything he did. It show respect to Jung's fans, the movies he been on and the people he was with. Jung has respect for Blow and his cast members and the director. Once I saw Blow, when George was an undercover cop. He really got in his character and he does show a lot of respect for

the movie. George's career might have some defining moments and significant events for his life and the movie.
November 7, 2008

Arrogance and betrayal

This film takes a great pleasure in depicting a mediocre criminal, a drug dealer actually, who considers himself a hero, a genius and maybe even a god on earth. His initial success he analyzes as his own and does not see it is the success of a system and when he fails it's because he crossed a line somewhere: too much and too sure of himself maybe even arrogant and condescending. Then his story is a story of successive failures in between short periods of success and long periods of prison as a result of it all. He ends up betrayed by his own partners who deliver him to the FBI and DEA one night in order to get themselves out of the business clean and unharmed. Finks, that's what his friends were. But he deserved it. Then the story seems to support him on the other side of the coin: his daughter. He loses his wife and his daughter in order to go and by going to prison a first time. Then he re-conquers his daughter little by little and he promises to take her away from the squalor her mother is providing. But that's when he decides to do one more trick to get the money he needs to kidnap his own daughter. That's when he is picked up, lower than him you cannot fall, by the police and sent to prison for so long that he will never see his father alive again. So he dreams his daughter comes and visits him. But that's a dream, an illusion, a mirage. He was not able to deliver his promise and he has been discarded like an old shoe or a worn out sock. Sad but after all very moralistic. Crime does not pay and only brings deception, disappointment and suffering. Too moral maybe to be as good as it could have been. How can we support or sympathize with this selfish and arrogant p**** of a man?

Dr Jacques COULARDEAU, University Paris Dauphine, University Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne & University Versailles Saint Quentin en Yvelines
October 15, 2008

One of my favorites

The movie is one of my favorites but in the bonus features I would have liked to hear more of George Jung's thoughts and stories. October 4, 2008

a glossy snow story

THe acting on this movie is great. But as with any biography
the truth often gets far behind. A large number of people around the REAL
coke dealer met unfortunate ends probably at the dope dealers orders or his accomplishes. You can't be in the hard drug dealing world without
deadly violence.
But we don't see any of this. In fact a early character is said just to vanish. Yes. well most likely jung had him killed. When the late coke addict director of this movie ( he died overdosing on coke) wanted to tell Jungs story he presented a much kinder version of reality than existed. A true bloody tale would have been more accurate and entertaining but director instead tells us a version of drug dealing that is like a fairy tale in some ways. That's nothing new for hollywood.
Many biographies are so whitewashed that the real person would be amazed that this person on screen is supposed to be him!. The reality though is that coke and it's children have laid waste to millions of lives and to make a movie that doesn't show this destruction is rather strange. But then the director was a coke addict. he's dead and long after the real jung is dead the damage he did to the world will be with us. October 1, 2008

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