Pusher (1996)

Pusher: Directed by Nicolas Winding Refn. With Kim Bodnia, Zlatko Buric, Laura Drasbæk, Slavko Labovic. A drug pusher grows increasingly desperate after a botched deal leaves him with a large debt to a ruthless drug lord.

“Wow, Iu0026#39;ve just watched it. Probably, itu0026#39;d be better to just lay back, think about the movie and, only after cooling down on emotions, review it.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eBut not this one.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eu0026quot;Pusheru0026quot; tells us the story of, perhaps, the worst week of Franku0026#39;s life, a u0026#39;middleweightu0026#39; dealer caught in an unpayable debt to pay to Eastern European type mafia. And as his story unfolds, your blood pressure will rise just like the incredible tension increasing throughout the movie. No wonder, the debt grows higher and higher every day. Will Frank be able to ever repay it? Its just like the tag-line says:u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eu0026quot;Youu0026#39;ve got no chance! Grab it!u0026quot; u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThe fresh thing about this movie is that it shows what is actually happening somewhere in the middle of the u0026#39;food-chainu0026#39; of drug dealing. Not at the top, covered by movies such as Casino, Scarface, Blow, or any other high budget movie made in Hollywood. After all Copenhagen is just not a world of amazing luxury and incredible piles of coke here and there. But the movie doesnu0026#39;t follow another clichéu0026#39; either. It doesnu0026#39;t show us the bottom, where junkies scavenge on each other, sell their mothers for a gram of heroin, a topic which is usually covered by some low-budget off-movies.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003ePusher is the ultimate, pure, refined truth about drug dealing. I have a personal experience, myself being for a time an immigrant into Denmark (Iu0026#39;ve never been a criminal or ever wanted to be, though, just to clarify that matter). And some guys, that Iu0026#39;ve came across upon coming here, went into this businesses and well, they all hit rock bottom. OK, the movie is hard to get into with its dramatic realism, but I assure you: this movie is as close to coarse truth and gritty reality as it gets!”