Blow

Ok, I just got done watching the movie, “Blow”. An interesting movie, while people see many things in movies, this movie made me think a lot.

While yes, it was about a drug dealer. It was also about a lot more, you have to read between the lines. Maybe you just have to look at it and compare it to your life and what you really want in life.

It shows there are more important things in life besides money. The search for money never ends in the world we live in today. The more money you find the more you want. In one scene of the movie they had boxes of cash stacked everywhere in the house. So much money they couldn’t find everywhere to put it. Even with so much money they still wanted more.

Comparing that to people now in the job market. People work for money. People move up on the ladder for money. People brown nose, stab each other in the back, lie, steal and cheat for money. It is all about how you can get more money.

How much is enough money?

Even with all the money the main character “George” ends up with in the movie, happiness still fails him. He loses a girlfriend to cancer, a wife because he lost all the money, and a daughter in search for more money. Adding to all that his mother disowns him, and his father while disappointed in him still loves his son so much he can never disown him.

In the final chapter in George’s life, he last run of drugs turns out to be nothing but a setup. His friends set him up to escape prison themselves. He gets 60 years in prison. In all in the people he could blame he blames no one. The only thing he is really broken over is his daughter and the things he did to ruin the relationship he has with her.

Why does this movie have me writing this post? It makes me think about all the money hungry people out there in the work force. They will risk everything, the loss of family, friends, and themselves just for the money. Money regardless how much they make or have consumes them. While they aren’t smuggling drugs, they are still willing to do illegal activities for the money.

Once you reach the top in a corporation, there is no place higher to go. Just like being a drug lord. When you get to the top, your happiness fails. You still want to make more money. You need more excitement. So you fall into deeper illegal activities to get what you want. You keep going, always pushing for more until one day, you lose it all.

That is what happened to George, that is what happens to everyone that reaches the top and can’t learn to be happy with what they have.

So I ask again, How much money is enough?

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