Women "Blow"

Blow follows the life of George Jung, a key player in the American cocaine trade from the mid 1970’s to the mid 1980’s. At the beginning of the film George was a young boy that lived with his parents (Fred and Ermine) in a small town in Massachusetts. George’s dad ran a small pluming company, but still struggled to support his family. George’s mother was unemployed, but yet she still always yelled at her husband about never having enough money. When George grew up he moved to southern California with his best friend Tuna. The duo decided to sell marijuana so that they wouldn’t have to get real jobs. They did very well for themselves selling weed until George got arrested with 660 pounds while on a business trip in Chicago. At that point George skipped bail and went on the run. While on the run he visited his parents in Massachusetts. During a serious heart to heart with his father the cops showed up at his house, because evidently his mom snitched on him. After that George was sentenced to a 3 year stint in Federal prison where he met Diego Delgado. Diego convinced George to get into the cocaine business, and after their release they started moving cocaine together. They did exceptionally well smuggling Colombian cocaine onto American soil, quickly amassing a large fortune. At a party George met a beautiful woman named Mirtha and eventually the two got married and had a daughter. After he was betrayed by Diego George decided to get out of the business. However his wife was not yet ready to give up the high life, so she threw George and extravagant party for his 38th birthday. The cops raided the party and arrested George for all the cocaine there, so he went on the run again. While George was driving Mirtha snorted some cocaine and then jerked the steering wheel out of George’s hands because she was fed up with their financial situation. That resulted in them getting pulled over by the police, and subsequently with George’s arrest. After serving 3 years in jail George was release to find out that his daughter, Kristina, wanted nothing more to do with him. To get on better terms with his daughter he promised to take her on a trip to California, but he really couldn’t afford to do so at that point in time. Therefore he decided to make 1 last deal to make enough money for the trip, but his old accomplices set him up. The movie ended with George serving a 60 year prison sentence after being arrested with a large quantity of cocaine. Throughout the film the indecency and immorality of many female characters was used to depict women in a negative manner.

Ermine, George’s mother, always yelled at her hard-working husband because she wanted to be more financially well off. In addition, she regularly left him because she really wanted to marry into wealth. Furthermore, she betrayed her son by turning him into the police for no legitimate reason. These actions served to depict her character as a selfish, heartless, and unreasonable woman. Mirtha was another female character that was used to portray women negatively throughout the film. It was her continued habit and her insistence that George and her indulge in living the highlife which got George arrested. Furthermore, she had no problem intentionally getting him arrested simply because she was upset about not having a lot of money. That particular instance depicted her as a wild, hot-tempered, out of control, and incomprehensible female with a hot-temper.

Throughout the film, Blow, a number of female characters effectively portrayed women in a negative manner. Specifically, it was Mirtha’s wildness and Ermine’s heartlessness served to depict females as greedy and treacherous people with no sense of loyalty or appreciation.