“Blow” is my all time favorite movie!
Ted Demme wasn’t meant to educate his viewers but instead to take them back to the seventies, where everything was retro and vintage, I mean we’re talking cars, hair, clothes, boots or sandals, and even the furniture. Demme sheds light on the production and sale of both Marijuana & cocaine, loved by the rich because they were actually able to afford it. The drugs began to popularize within the United States because George Jung, a once average American good with numbers had the competence make deals and close interactions with growers in Mexico for marijuana and cocaine carriers out in Columbia such as Pablo Escobar. What makes this movie such a high demand is the acting done by Johnny Depp, Penelope Cruz, Ray Liotta, Paul Reubens, and Jordi Molla–such a wonderful cast that really brought the drug smuggling and drug addiction to real life. Johnny Depp playing his role as George Jung, a non-fictional character, felt he owed it to Jung who at the time was in jail to play ” La Americano” to his full extent to represent him honorably. Depp is able to portray the exciting motives Jung had produced when coordinating and planning outside U.S borders which as a viewer is thrilling because we’d never expect smuggling drugs into the United States to be so easy, but back in the seventies it was. My only critique is the film goes through this downward spiral towards the end of the film, and I’m curious if that was Demme’s purpose. His purpose to make the audience feel exhausted just as Jung did when going in and out of jail, as if his inevitability of being incarcerated was predictable because after every drop off and making hundreds Jung would be put behind the bars. “Blow” gives Americans more insight as to why security checks at the airports are more strict as well as at the border stops, popularization of marijuana and cocaine, profits made by dealers and smugglers, court system, and the people becoming too fond of such drugs because marijuana and cocaine to them can make a party enlightening.
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