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Summary: copoenhagen's seamy side
Review: 'Pusher' is Nicholas Refn's film debut, and is certainly full of the energy and enthusiasm of a first time director. The story follows frank, a small time smack dealer who dreams of the big leauge. When he meets a swede who needs 200 grams pronto he readily accepts, but (suprise suprise) things go wrong and he gets busted. Now in heavily in debt to his sadistic croatian supplier (milo), frank's life rapidly detoriates into a nightmarish scenario; his customers who owe him won't pay; his best friend informs on him and milo's henchmen get ever more insistent. One of the things I liked most about 'pusher' is the way it shows how this kind of lifestyle seems so glamourous and exciting on the outside, yet one bad event brings everything crashing down into chaos. The film manages to be non-judgemental without being amoral; frank is not the presented as the bad guy, yet neither is there any sympathy for his plight. Beautifully shot in sunny Copenhagen, Pusher is a film which somehow manages to be formulaic and yet innovative; violent yet thoughtful; it challenges but does not 'push'.
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Summary: EXCELLENT! MAKES YOU THINK TWICE ABOUT THE LIFESTYLE.
Review: A brutally honest, shockingly realistic look at the week in a drug dealer's life when things go wrong and he realizes that he's in too deep. The story may take place in Copenhagen, but it really could be in any major city in the world. The characters are fully believable in their demeanor and attitude. Because of its extremely realistic violence and dialogue, this should definitely be shown to high school students as part of an anti-drug curriculum. This doesn't sugar-coat the bleak lifestyle of drugs, nor does it make any excuses for it. The film is unrated for a reason: the violence is brutal and some of the dialog is sexually explicit, perhaps unnecessarily so at times. Nevertheless, the movie certainly gets its point across! Technically, the direction is excellent and the story grabs you from the start. The camera work can be jittery at times, but it adds to the realism as if you were there in the midst of the action. The subtitles are good and do an excellent job of keeping up with the story, although there are a few moments where the characters continue to speak and there is no translation. It doesn't take away from the story, but makes one awfully curious as to what's being said for those few seconds. If you've always thought of foreign films as being too bland and boring, this one will surely wake you up with a shock!
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Summary: EXCELLENT! MAKES YOU THINK TWICE ABOUT THE LIFESTYLE.
Review: A brutally honest, shockingly realistic look at the week in a drug dealer's life when things go wrong and he realizes that he's in too deep. The story may take place in Copenhagen, but it really could be in any major city in the world. The characters are fully believable in their demeanor and attitude. Because of its extremely realistic violence and dialogue, this should definitely be shown to high school students as part of an anti-drug curriculum. This doesn't sugar-coat the bleak lifestyle of drugs, nor does it make any excuses for it. The film is unrated for a reason: the violence is brutal and some of the dialog is sexually explicit, perhaps unnecessarily so at times. Nevertheless, the movie certainly gets its point across! Technically, the direction is excellent and the story grabs you from the start. The camera work can be jittery at times, but it adds to the realism as if you were there in the midst of the action. The subtitles are good and do an excellent job of keeping up with the story, although there are a few moments where the characters continue to speak and there is no translation. It doesn't take away from the story, but makes one awfully curious as to what's being said for those few seconds. If you've always thought of foreign films as being too bland and boring, this one will surely wake you up with a shock!
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Summary: Danish exchange student
Review: I'm a exchange student from Denmark. PUSHER is a badass movie! I was there when it came out in Denmark. PUSHER is from
Denmark.. I'm from Denmark, I know what it's all about!! I got so proud when I saw I could buy PUSHER over the net. A Danish movie on the net for Amrican people. I can't believe it, but that just show how good a movie PUSHER is![.]
PUSHER take place in Copenhagen. Back in Denmark I live 50 min. away from Copenhagen and as you can see in the movie, it's damn cool city.
Buy PUSHER![.] It's worth all the money![.]Asger from Denmark
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Summary: Stunning film
Review: Pusher is the Danish word for dealer. The movie takes place in Copenhagen, where Frank, the maincaracter, lives an unsuccesfull live as a drugdealer. He works on commision for a yugoslavian gangster, who gives him drugs on credit. At the same time he's trying to save up, so that he can start up his own drugbuissness. When he get an opportunaty to make a lot of money on a big deal, veerything goes wrong, and he loses the drugs. Now he's in trouble, because Milo, the boss, wants his money. The film shows how life is on the wrong side. How the relations are between people in an extreem milieau. The film is scary realistic!
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Summary: PUSHER me off my seat its.....
Review: PUSHER me off my seat its,its dam good so good it just pulls your eyes out,every picture,seen, just make you think like your there and you can feel the pain,it rocks your brain just seeing the act
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Summary: Yugo Pusherman!!!!!
Review: This is a good movie that isn't too dark. The characters are right on and so are the accents. Think Pulp Fiction, Hardboiled, Hate and the Usual Suspects and your on the right track. The flow is definitely not as slow as other European movies that follow the drug game. And the ending is right on!!! Real life man. Real Times. Like my man would say Yugo pusherman!!!!
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Summary: Yugo Pusherman!!!!!
Review: This is a good movie that isn't too dark. The characters are right on and so are the accents. Think Pulp Fiction, Hardboiled, Hate and the Usual Suspects and your on the right track. The flow is definitely not as slow as other European movies that follow the drug game. And the ending is right on!!! Real life man. Real Times. Like my man would say Yugo pusherman!!!!
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Summary: Dark, Brutal and Realistic..........
Review: This is a GREAT movie for those who likes dark and movies that does not have a Hollywood ending..... Its about Frank, a drugdealer in Copenhagen trying to get the big bucks.... but he's dreams goes to nightmares when he makes a mistake, and the yugoslavian maffia Milo want's the money that Frank borrowed from him. Frank have a week to give back what he owes to Milo, but the week is going to be long.......
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Summary: Best Movie Ever!
Review: This is my all time favorite movie, buy it buy it buy it! You follow a pusher for a week (Sequal coming up in start 2000), and all is kewl in the first few days, but then a deal goes wrong, and he needs to get money for his drugdealer... Enough said, this is a 5 star movie without doubt!
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