johanevander Reviews

Pusher III (2005)

On the edge!

[8/10 · 17 March 2006]

The director Nicolas Winding Refn once again delivers a day of total agony and disaster. This day is almost as well presented as Frank's day in Pusher and gives you a look inside the life of a junkie, psychopath and father; Milo the drug-dealer.

Although the entire movie feels slow-paced there are few movies which will leave you as stunned and with such an ugly feeling inside your stomach. This one is truly merciless in it's presentation of the criminal world in Copenhagen, and globally, where nothing is tabu and everyone lives by a code as dark as charcoal.

This deterioration of gangster and his respect is a truly scary journey filled with disappointment, failure and death.

Pusher II (2004)

Quiet with the smell of salt water and concrete

[7/10 · 17 March 2006]

Just like Pusher, Pusher 2 presents you with a world of rain, seaweed and concrete. Mybe not even concrete but mere plain dirt.

Although not as strong as Pusher it still grabs you and keeps you in its arms through the entire journey of Tony's confusing and degrading life, right out of prison.

Fragile and non-existing relationships develop back and fourth and eventually it is obvious why the main character is where he is in life; near the bottom of a downslope. Violence and drugs mixed with maybe not so unexplainable relations hands you a bitter and sad father and son situation.

Pusher (1996)

Reality bites!

[9/10 · 17 March 2006]

5 fairly unknown actors and a director with interesting relations present a world of darkness, ill emotions and bitter reality, in a way that blows you away!

The ever so pure scenery and the breakout of, what seems to be inevitable, events truly hands you a picture of what it could really be like to be a person abandoned by everything that one needs to function socially and emotionally in a big city anywhere.

Drugs, violence and prostitution are presented in the most credible way, and you will find yourself jumping between hope, fear and disaster...