Great true story film of George Jung's unique drug dealing life.

Rating: Null/10 (29 September 2004)

Love Hurts
'Blow' begins as a Boston native named George Jung (Johnny Depp) decides to move out to Manhattan Beach, California in the summer of 1968 with his best friend Tuna (Ethan Suplee). He falls in love with a California girl who is an airplane stewardess named Barbara Buckley (Franka Potente). George and Tuna decide to sell dope and Barbara hooks them up with Derek Foreal (Paul Reubens), who owns the first male hair salon in all of southern California. Derek Foreal supplies them the grass and together George and Tuna become the kings of Manhattan Beach. They start smuggling weed to Boston but it isn't making enough money for George. They start smuggling weed from Mexico and become very wealthy. George and Barbara plan to marry, but Barbara is diagnosed with cancer and dies. George goes to prison and makes plans with and learns about cocaine from Diego Delgado (Jordi Molla). After serving his term, he teams up with Diego, and they start smuggling blow from Mexico on a small airlplane across the border working under Pablo Escobar (Cliff Curtis). He steals one of Pablo's men's wives named Mirtha (Penelope Cruz) and marries her. Mirtha gives birth to a girl. After being stabbed in the back by Diego, George and his family will start a new life.
This movie shows how when we have children, we care for them more than anything as George does in this movie for his daughter. The obvious moral of this story is that money isn't everything. We can have fun with money, and it is nice to have nice things. Love and passion is much more important than money. Being in prison, George realizes what his dad meant when he said that money isn't real and that it doesn't mean anything. It has scarred his mentality, now apart from his daughter that won't visit him.
This is my favorite film, because it is the true story of George Jung's unique life, and it was neatly narrated. Too many people have boring lives. The plot was well constructed, and it was led by the amazing Johnny Depp. Without him, this movie wouldn't have been half as good. This movie goes deep into what it was like for George in Mexico meeting the big wigs of marijuana and cocaine. Depp absolutely did an extraordinary job at becoming this character. This movie follows George's path, his life's development of a dealer, and his breakdown in life. This movie is genuinely magnificent.