Blow Movie Analysis

“Life passes most people by while they’re making grand plans for it” (Demme, 2001). Blow is the true life story of George Jung, it is a two hour and four minute movie depicting his struggle as a father, son, and husband. The movie brings to light family system problems such as abandonment depression, family styles, and of course drug use. This movie is a great example of what an unbalanced family looks like and what are some of the types to be aware of, it also provides a great view on how it can effect ones use of drugs. Jung’s mother married with the hope of having a husband that would be able to support her finically. His mother hated the fact that her husband never became wealthy like she thought he would. She was disgusted with her middle

When watching the movie I learned what kind of family systems there were between George and his parents and his wife. Jung’s family shows a lot of dysfunction, for example when Jung was growing up his family would be classified as distorted and overextended in my opinion. Distorted family systems are family that try to cover up there crazy acting normal so people won’t know what’s really happening behind closed doors. Overextended Family system, these are people who typical have to stay busy and achieve at all cost. I would say distorted because of the fact that the mother always wanted to hide the fact that she was unhappy in her marriage and family life from her friends. She even went as far as calling the police on Jung when he was on the run because she didn’t want to be embarrassed any longer, she always tried to make herself come off as the perfect wife and mother. They were also overextended because of the fact that Jung’s father was over worked, because of his wife’s need for have money at all times his dad worked multiply jobs. His father provided everything he could for his son and that’s when there enmeshed relationship began. He even went as far as letting his son who at the time was on the run into his home to have a talk with him and was extremely upset when his wife called the cops on their only child. At every turn he tried to help his

which is not surprising because of the fact that there relationship was heavily built on drug use, Jung meet his wife who was already married to an acquaintance of his . They married in a cocaine fueled wedding affair with just the two of them in a little white wedding chapel in Vegas. Jung was very much in love with his beautiful Columbium wife that he brought her everything he could possible purchase no matter the cost. Things started to go downhill when his wife became pregnant with their first and only child. Although Jung had warned his wife Mirtha about her drug use during her pregnancy she continued to use and that was the beginning of the presents of the four horsemen in their relationship. Mirtha didn’t spare a moment to point out to Jung that she had been unhappy getting pregnant and having to quit drinking. Criticism is one of the four horsemen that Gottman listed as the ending to any relationship. Mirtha always criticized Jung with whatever came to her in that very moment no matter how cruel. Contempt can be classified as thinking that one person is better than the other. Toward the end of their relationship I believe that Jung believed that he was better than his drug addicted wife. He began to feel disgusted with her behavior after he had gotten clean, and expressed in his behavior how he was disgusted with her behavior. Defensiveness is when one or more partner avoids