BLOW
Written by
: David Mukenna & Nick
Casavetes
Directed by
: Ted Demme
Based on the book by:
Bruce Porter
The film
tells us the story of a young man who had become a millionaire by the sale of
weeds and later cocaine. The story begins in the background of 1950s America.
The hero is George who is loom in a middle class family in America. He
quarreled with his parents in his adult hood and went to California.
Once George
was walking here and there in the Miame beach he met some friends there
including women and men. One women gave George a puff of weeds and he was very
much pleasure in it. But George thought for sale of weed not to use it. George’s
girlfriends met some dealers of weeds in the town and accompanied George with
the intention of sale of weeds for money. The meeting found an agreement
between George and the dealer. In the coming days the man gave weeds to George
and he along with his friends sold the thing in the beech in return of money.
They got huge amount of money and lead a luxurious life.
Through this business George earned
a lot of money but he was not satisfied so he thought for abundant sale of
weeds. Instantly George planned to import weeds to America from Mexico since
Mexico and Colombia were famous for the availability of weeds. The very next
day George flew to Mexico and brought weeds to America with the help of a
dealer there. By selling that George becomes richer. In between he married a
lady among his friends who was addicted to the use of drugs and weeds. During
1970s she died and it was a period when George was rich and having a luxurious
life. He was more ambitious to earn more from his business and in his way to his
aim, he was caught by the police and was imprisoned.
From the
prison he got a friend and George opened his plans that he want to make more
money by his business. The friend that George met tells him that; sale of cocaine
is more profitable and valuable than weeds. Later they two were released. Once
George got some cocaine with the help of his prison mate and he sold that and
from the sale George got triple benefit than the sale of weeds. Thus they began
to increase the sale of cocaine and in order to this George went to Columbia he
met a underworld don Pablo Eskobar and make the deal that George should gave
50% of profit of his cocaine sale. George and his friends became by their business
and they could not find any place to keep their money. In time George kept
money in toilet too and everywhere it is cash now.
After some
days the prison mate cheated George in order to take the whole money. By
telling George’s cocaine sale to police, he betrayed George. In between George had
his second marriage and had a daughter too.
When George
was released from the prison his whole cash was ruined by his old friend. But
George was not ready to avoid his business and he tried to involve more in his
job. One day, during the birth day part of George’s daughter, his prison mate
again cheated him by informing police about George’s cocaine business. And so
in the birthday party George and his daughter were caught by the police. His
wife who was addicted to cocaine became mental when she didn’t got cocaine in
the absence of George.
After some
days George’s daughter was released and later after some years he too was
released. His daughter ignored him. Thus he became a great failure in his life….
Sherin
Shehanas
