BLOW (2001)

Hello fellow readers! Welcome back for your weekly dose of documentary genre review.
Today, I’ll be taking about the movie ‘Blow’.

Released in 2001 the movie based on a true story, Blow  recounts the life of George Jung, played by Johnny Depp. an American who managed his way into the burgeoning cocaine importing industry at the height of the Medellin Cartel's infamy.

Despite what he may have thought, Jung himself was a small-scale player in a global business, and he was relatively quickly shuffled out of the deck of drug kingpins, landing repeatedly in jail. 

In the mid 1960s George moves to California and vows to never be poor or want for anything. He establishes himself as the local beach marijuana supplier for local distributor Derek and quickly graduates to supplying weed to New England campuses, transporting it from California in the unchecked luggage’s of airline stewardesses.

After the death of his wife, the stewardess. George lands in jail where he meets the supplier of the median cartel and convinces him to join the business. Eventually his partner lands in jail and Jorge reconnects with his old buddy, Derek and establish a narco-trafficking empire. 

It is said during the 90’s 80% of the cocaine entered in America was through Jorge’s connection.

All good things must come to an end and Jorge finally lands in jail for the last time for 26 years, an operation sting set up by the FBI and DEA where he gets betrayed by him formal partners in return of their pardon.