Review of Blow (2001) by Shreekara B — 26 May 2014

"You be what you want to be, you pursue to be good you be so, if you hold the path that takes you down then that's it, it's your pretty life, make a right decision before you had to repent for what you had done, coz life doesn't come with an eraser or a correction pen".

'A normal young youthful guy finds some difficulties with some finance and finds a lateral path to gain some dollars and get involved in some mischievous task of smuggling illegal drugs and get into the world of dreadful white powder, entirely co incidental' this what you predict with all those young boys who got involved in some drug smuggling, but it's not in the case of 'George Jung', he entered the world of drug with intentional just by looking at its profitable side, he could had led a happy life without getting involved in such bad stuff but he entered, and the result is the name - 'Boston George', huge cocaine trader ever seen in US history, he begins with minor distribution of Marijuana on the bay of California but gradually his greed of earning lot dollars makes him to get involved in large scale drug smuggling, but he gets caught while smuggling nearly 600 pounds of marijuana in Chicago, though he get out from legal clutches he is again caught handed to federals by his mother itself during his visit to his early house in New England, he is sent to prison in Connecticut and there he hits the lottery of smuggling cocaine with his new friend Diego, he gets contact with some huge drug dealers and starts to smuggle huge amount of cocaine, meanwhile he gets married to a girl by name Mirtha and leads a happy life, his life changes after the birth of his daughter, he gets cheated by his friend Diego in the business and leave the drug business, but he is busted again in his birthday party and faces various issues like unstable family condition, he loses his money and become popper, after his release he tries to rebound the relation with his daughter and promises her to take to California with him, the place she had earlier wished to go, George again holds the path of smuggling drugs to make some money but he get busted and sent to imprisonment for nearly 60 years and thus breaking his promise to his daughter, he records a tape addressing his father that he repents for whatever he had done and realizes his mistake and now he got to know his words that 'money is not real', he sees his daughter who had come to visit him but it just get to be his imagination, thus the film ends up with a credit lines.

Such a wonderful script had been neatly portrayed on the screen by the director Ted Demme, Johnny Deep is just outstanding with his performance he shows up with perfectionism, if you really want to know about notorious drug smuggler 'George Jung' then this movie is the better watch, great movie with great message.