another facet of the "70's" experience and history

Rating: 9/10 (9 April 2001)

Our interest with the life and times of those who lead the 60's and 70's "experience" has once again been meet with fascination. Like the classic "Scarface", I was totally spellbound, though on a very different level. While Scarface represented the immigrant coming to America to find that dream, at whatever cost, Blow represented the same story, but from the American, trying to get out of the existence he was born in, trying to find that American dream he was brought up to believe in. This movie was not so much about the drugs and violence, but about a person/people, trying to find that dream, knowing what they know best, doing what they do best. This movie has heart and soul, yet despair and dissolutionment. Once again, Johnny Depp is understatingly brilliant, and Paul Rubin "PeeWee" is a refreshing and funny delight. This movie is disturbing, realistic, funny, and sad, and I still walked away feeling further enriched, knowing a little bit more about recent society and why we are where we are today............