I am Gerry. I love movies. Sometimes I make them.
The story of a serious scumbag. “Pusher” takes that gamble of having a protagonist who is completely unlikeable, but thankfully the risk pays off due to Refn’s assured hand as director. A high-energy, high-stakes film in which the quick dialogue and escalating plot makes the running time soar by.
A stronger film than the original and one whose scenes haunted me long after. Refn flips the formula he used for the first film to focus on a sympathetic protagonist trapped in a toxic environment. Tonny’s surroundings, his family and “friends” continue his downward spiral into drugs and depravity, so much so, that despite all of his mistakes, you can’t help but feel for him.
The final and strongest effort in Danish director Nicolas Winding Refn’s “Pusher” trilogy. Following recovering drug-addict/drug-dealer, Milo, “Pusher III” hit me on a an emotional and visceral level that the previous entries didn’t. The last fifteen minutes are hard to stomach, but they are some extremely powerful cinema.
