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...closest airstrip was on the resort island of Hainan, known in Chinese legend as the "end of the world," where the sky and sea meet to form a perfect haven. It is also home to many Chinese military bases, the kind of place where honeymooners sit on the beach and watch the submarines surface offshore, the fighter jets buzz overhead. You couldn't pick a worse place to land one of the most highly classified planes the U.S. has ever built, full of secrets about how we gather secrets - if the pilots could manage to land...
...film the life of a man larger than life and make some sense of it all? Director Ted Demme (Life, Beautiful Girls) answer is to use editing and camera effects to create a kind of hyperreality. As in Traffic, filtered lenses indicate time and mood, so scenes on Manhattan Beach in California appear sun-bleached, almost sepia-toned, while the sex scenes between Depp and Penelope Cruz (All About My Mother) are red-hued. (Steven Soderbergh may have started a trend in the drug-movie genre. Cheech and Chong might want take note.) Freeze frames indicate the passage of time...
...Jung just after he leaves Massachusetts for California: He meets flight attendant Barbara (Franka Potente, of Run Lola Run fame) and gay hairdresser Derek Foreal (Paul Reubens, once known as Pee-Wee Herman, in full-on camp mode). Through Derek, Jung becomes a small-time pot dealer on Manhattan Beach, but his dreams are bigger, and he flies into Mexico to the source of the marijuana. The good times roll—with the profits from dealing, Jung and Barbara buy a house in Acalpulco—and this first half of Blow is almost Edenic: everyone is friends with...
...Wholesale Club in Medford, Mass., a white stretch limo waits at the curb while its passengers roam the cavernous discount warehouse. At Tom's Barber Shop in Jacksonville, lawyers and executives sit down next to truckers and shipyard workers for a $6 trim. At Deja Vu, a Palm Beach boutique that sells used designer clothes, women who once sent their maids and drivers to the back door with bundles of high-fashion castoffs to sell now bring them by in person and stick around to shop...
...banker in London, says that many friends who left Italy to pursue international careers eventually want to move back "because of quality of life, family and a generally more comfortable lifestyle." He's among them. "What is an evening in Trastevere worth?" he asks. "Or a weekend at the beach in Gaeta...