Is Blow making a commentary, like Traffic, or is it just a biographical movie?
I haven’t seen Traffic, but I think Blow is just a look at this one man’s life—what he went through and why he went through it. Drug smuggling was his business. He earned a lot of money and thought that that was going to be the answer to all his prayers, and, in the process, lost it, lost his family. He lost because he won. Is he looking forward to getting out? Oh, sure. If his daughter doesn’t want to see him, what else is there for him on the outside? Well, for George, on the last bust, when he was sentenced to go to prison, there were a few people busted in the same place, same circumstances, same charge as George. And the other people were given two years, I think, which, in a federal penitentiary, you do a minimum of 74% of your sentence. They’re looking at two, maybe three years maximum. George got 25 years. He got sentenced to that, because he, for all intents and purposes, had made a fool out of the judge and the local cops [previously]. It was the feds who busted him before an
Is Blow making a commentary, like Traffic, or is it just a biographical movie?