Product: Blow [VHS] (2001)
Rating: 4.0
"Ordinary People" meets "GoodFellas"
Ok, maybe my review title ain't all that accurate. Nonetheless, I enjoyed this movie immensely.Its not perfect, treats some of the subject matter a little more patly than I would have liked. You would think a movie like this would be a film about the coke industry of the 70s and 80s. Instead, the film is a tragedy, Jung's meteoric rise to fame and fortune, his crash and burn, his numerous attempts to right himself, his numerous failures.You wouldn't know it going into it, but this film is about a man (albeit through some illegal, immoral, and unethical means) trying to provide for his family. Don't go into this looking for the next "GoodFellas" or "Boogie Nights". It's a single-man character study, and as such (IMHO) succeeds admirably.The ending of the film still haunts me.