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Movie Review: Blow

Movie Review: Blow

Introduction

Based upon the novel, "Blow: How a Small-Town young man Made $100 Million with the Medellin Cocaine Cartel and Lost it All" by Bruce Porter. This is founded on the factual article of George Jung. It is often asserted that Jung is mostly to blame for cocaine evolving the drug of alternative for the rich and famous back in the early 70's. Way back then before cocaine was a broadly renowned narcotic, George snared up with Columbian druglord Pablo Escobar to import mass amounts of the drug to the U.S. Jung had circulation passages which put the drugs into the hands of video, TV and rock stars. Thead covering in turn made it the pharmaceutical of alternative with the trendy set, and in a very short time span of time he was making tens of millions of dollars.

The movie isn't just a annals of cocaine. However, it does qualify as a highly spectacular biography of George Jung. We rendezvous him as a little boy and arrive to understand the natural environment he was conveyed up in and follow him thru his pursuit of very simple cash and the ups and downs of the ride along the way. Jung really personifies the vintage proverb that states the higher you proceed the further you can fall.

Discussion

Before he was unceremoniously pushed out, George Jung was the man to blame for the lion's share of cocaine going into the joined States from Columbia. Breduced, founded on the publication assault: How a Smalltown Boy Made $100 Million With the Medellin Cocaine Cartel and Lost It All by Bruce Porter and acclimatized by David McKenna (Get Carter, Body Shots) and Nick Cassavetes (The Astronaut's Wife, Life) retraces Jung's steps, from new high school graduate stoner to wealthy pharmaceutical kingpin. Johnny Depp, averse as ...