Monday, 4 August 2014

Film Review



                                                 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

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