How the Mighty Have Fallen in "Blow"

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Based on a true story, Blow tells the story of the main character George Jung. George became one of the largest if not the largest cocaine trafficker in the United States, because of the trafficking of Pablo Escobar`s cocaine, it changed the face of America in the 1970s. Being business partners with Pablo Escobar, George was never in short supply of the cocaine he was trafficking.

As I watched the movie and observed George`s addictive behavior, I realized that it started as a child and the first obsession came in the form of money. George’s parents were not wealthy and always fought over money this is where as a young child George placed his values. George’s deviant behavior started with smoking cigarettes, drinking beer, and smoking marijuana, as a direct result of the illegal possession of marijuana George was sent to prison where he fine-tuned his skills of trafficking marijuana to trafficking cocaine and changed the product from marijuana to cocaine.

Relationships with people in the drug business and his personal life had an effect on George’s emotional state of mind, the...

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