There are valuable lessons to be learned here: pay your bills on time and don't aggravate your suppliers. And don't extend credit recklessly without checking carefully into the creditworthiness of your customers. These are the two main ones - sound commercial principles, I think you will agree. But there are others: don't send untrustworthy minions off to Amsterdam with large wodges of cash to buy drugs from equally untrustworthy suppliers who will take your money and send you sugar, for instance. One of the lessons is paradoxical: don't sell drugs to druggies, because they aren't very good with money. Pusher Frank learns all these lessons during this film, in which the gap between the money he owes supplier Milo and his ability to generate the funds needed to pay that bill widens constantly.
This film is based on a European film which I haven't seen, so I base my comments solely on what happens here. This film is well directed and well acted: the small cast are all very good, and Ageyness Deyn (the top model with the silly name) proves to have genuine acting chops, not to mention stunning eyebrows. I have a thing for eyebrows).
My reservation is that I simply didn't like it very much. None of the characters is very sympathetic, the story is squalid and dispiriting, and I came out of the cinema fairly depressed at a downbeat story featuring people I don't care about in the slightest.
This film is based on a European film which I haven't seen, so I base my comments solely on what happens here. This film is well directed and well acted: the small cast are all very good, and Ageyness Deyn (the top model with the silly name) proves to have genuine acting chops, not to mention stunning eyebrows. I have a thing for eyebrows).
My reservation is that I simply didn't like it very much. None of the characters is very sympathetic, the story is squalid and dispiriting, and I came out of the cinema fairly depressed at a downbeat story featuring people I don't care about in the slightest.