Nasty machismo

Rating: Null/10 (23 July 2001)

I just want to write about the role of women in "Blow". Women appear in this film like ornament. A group of beautiful girls smile stupidly ji, ji, ji...wearing bikinis around Johnny Depp and his fat friend. The air-hostess that participates in the traffic of drugs says nothing while the group is making plans. She just listen to the men . She looks like if she is not able to think and the easiest thing for her were to obey to men. In other sequence the actor, Jordi Mollá, orders his wife to shut up when she is trying to say something. She looks an hysteric and ridiculous person. I'd say the director wanted the public to laugh at her.
Johnny Depp´s mother has more personality but in a bad way. This women dominates her husband that´s the reason why (in this film, of course) this family can´t be happy. She doesn´t work. All the money she wants to obtain cames from her husband's job. The film shows the sentimental life of Depp´s character and here is when Penélope Cruz appears. As a female partner, her role is as secondary character.
Apart from all this when I went out of the cinema I thought to myself: `What a waste of time and money ¡ What a patience¡'.