Blow (Infinifilm Edition)
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Actor: Cliff Curtis, Dan Ferro, Johnny Depp, Pen?lope Cruz, Tony AmendolaBrand: Warner Brothers
Primary Contributor: Pen?lope Cruz
Primary Contributor: Johnny Depp
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 124 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2001-09-11
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: New Line Home Video
DVD Reviews of Blow (Infinifilm Edition)
DVD Review: Decent.
Summary: 3 Stars
This movie was just okay. I thought it would have been much better. Decent.DVD Review: I can't feel my face
Summary: 5 Stars
Everything about this movie was great! The actors, story, directing, and everything else were excellent. This movie was a drama with many comedic and heartfelt moments. I recommend this movie to anyone with an open mind who wants to learn the interesting true story of George Jung.DVD Review: Blow
Summary: 5 Stars
Very good movie. Kept me riveted to the end. Both Depp & Cruz are great in this film.DVD Review: "The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues." -Rene Descartes
Summary: 5 Stars
The movie Blow is based on the story of George Jung, who played a major role in the United States cocaine trade. Certainly, the movie authentically represents the cocaine trade, and the people that Jung dealt with, but it was not as loyal to the portrayal of Jung's emotional side (i.e. his obsession with women and sex, his strange habits, and his total pleasure seeking life style). Instead, Johnny Depp portrayed the role of a good hearted man with good values who got into the business as a result of being mistreated by life events. I couldn't help but bonding with, and relating to this supposedly bad character.
Regardless of how faithful the movie depicted real life characters, I know that the moral lesson of crime and punishment was delivered through a wonderful touching acting of the entire cast.
Johnny Depp and Ray Loitta delivered an amazing performance. The scene of the old father listening to a tape of his son's voice is one of the most powerful scenes I've ever seen. The love Jung has for his daughter and his suffering because of his absence from her life was very credibly delivered by Depp and little Emma Roberts
The final scene with Depp's introspection is very touching; I still remember his voice saying:
"Through out my life, I gave pieces of my heart to people I loved, that I don't have enough of my heart to keep me living".
I watched this movie at least 10 times since 2001 and I know it will remain one of my heart's dearest movies. Today, I made the surprising discovery on Wikipedia that Kristina Sunshine actually visited her father in jail after watching this movie. Now that the man is paying for his mistakes, it's really good to know that his daughter has decided to visit him before he dies.
DVD Review: The greatest glorification of the drug trafficing trade ever made!!!
Summary: 5 Stars
"Blow" is basically a glorification of the drug trade. Principles are shown in a glamorous light throughout most of the movie. They get all the girls and are awash in money. Even after they are arrested and confined to prison their only real crime portrayed is the loss of family life and strained relations with parents. In prison George Jung is portrayed as a counter culture icon, a wronged, flawed hero. The negative effects of the drugs upon the society as a whole are never broached. The killings, the crime, the destroyed lives, the waste are not examined. It is truly a movie about our times. A valuable movie to watch to see what has happened to our moral compass. It is another Hollywood view of the state of the union.
Description of Blow (Infinifilm Edition)
Based on a true story, Blow gives us a fast-paced look at the quick rise and fall of George Jung (Johnny Depp) who became a premier importer of Colombian cocaine, in the turbulent 1970's, forever changing the face of drugs in America.DVD Features:
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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 Medell?n 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 Pen?lope 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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