A Film That Sends A Message

Rating: 8/10 (19 August 2004)

I have seen my fair share of rise and fall movies, but Blow is one of the best I have ever seen. You can almost feel the pain George Jung is feeling throughout. George Jung played Depp is an upcoming high flyer, well that's what he likes to think and the ways to his heart is money and plenty of it. Which way is the best way for a young man in the 60's to make money, in George's eyes it's selling Cannabis but then flies on to a bigger boat of cocaine. This is how George's life begins and in someway ends. We follow him from port to port of people he meets into the dead depths of despair and greed. What makes this film or the more special is this movie makes you feel for a character that you shouldn't really feel for. At the end of the day a drug dealer is someone who sells a poison that by luck makes you feel happy about yourself and makes you're a whole better journey, but eventually it will make you desperate and not the person you once were and who is to blame for this apart from the user itself, the drug dealer and that is what George is so why should we feel sorry for him through this whole film? Well it's not because his drug ways have make him reach rock bottom, on the way through his journey he happens to have a daughter with his wife played by Penelope Cruz and throughout the movie as much as he tries to stop his bad habits to be a good father to his daughter but as always like most people like George Jung he messes it all up. That is why we feel him because of his bonding relationship with his daughter. Ted Levine god rest his soul has made a true film here and every time I watch this I well up like a little baby because of it's touching story. How Depp missed out on a Oscar or even a nomination is beyond by me, but I think Ted at least deserved to have some recognition.
If reading this and thinking of watching this movie but don't know whether you can be bothered then trust me you are I for a treat because Blow has a great message to it and will make a lot of people learn a lot about being apart of the drug culture.
A great film.