Pusher II (2004)
(With Blood on My Hands: Pusher II)
Country: DK/GB
Technical: col 100m
Director: Nicolas Winding Refn
Cast: Mads Mikkelsen, Leif Sylvester, Anne Sørensen
Synopsis:
Tonny gets out of prison and goes to work for his old man in the hot car business; meanwhile a former lay puts the squeeze on him for the kid he allegedly left her with. As he stumbles witlessly and lucklessly from one scrape to another, he gradually approaches his own breaking point.
Review:
Refn revisits the criminal milieu of Pusher, one entirely devoid of cool appeal, where the prostitutes look tired and saggy, the goons are incompetent in their petty scams, and where snorting cocaine leads to a bloody nose. For all his fecklessness and depravity, we follow Tonny through his blundering odyssey with a kind of fascination borne of the camera's implacable gaze; (even when we are not looking into his face, we are gazing at the back of his head, RESPECT tattooed across it.) Ultimately his double act of parricide and kidnap hits us as both a rousingly romantic gesture and a dread sign of history repeating itself.
(With Blood on My Hands: Pusher II)
Country: DK/GB
Technical: col 100m
Director: Nicolas Winding Refn
Cast: Mads Mikkelsen, Leif Sylvester, Anne Sørensen
Synopsis:
Tonny gets out of prison and goes to work for his old man in the hot car business; meanwhile a former lay puts the squeeze on him for the kid he allegedly left her with. As he stumbles witlessly and lucklessly from one scrape to another, he gradually approaches his own breaking point.
Review:
Refn revisits the criminal milieu of Pusher, one entirely devoid of cool appeal, where the prostitutes look tired and saggy, the goons are incompetent in their petty scams, and where snorting cocaine leads to a bloody nose. For all his fecklessness and depravity, we follow Tonny through his blundering odyssey with a kind of fascination borne of the camera's implacable gaze; (even when we are not looking into his face, we are gazing at the back of his head, RESPECT tattooed across it.) Ultimately his double act of parricide and kidnap hits us as both a rousingly romantic gesture and a dread sign of history repeating itself.
(With Blood on My Hands: Pusher II)
Country: DK/GB
Technical: col 100m
Director: Nicolas Winding Refn
Cast: Mads Mikkelsen, Leif Sylvester, Anne Sørensen
Synopsis:
Tonny gets out of prison and goes to work for his old man in the hot car business; meanwhile a former lay puts the squeeze on him for the kid he allegedly left her with. As he stumbles witlessly and lucklessly from one scrape to another, he gradually approaches his own breaking point.
Review:
Refn revisits the criminal milieu of Pusher, one entirely devoid of cool appeal, where the prostitutes look tired and saggy, the goons are incompetent in their petty scams, and where snorting cocaine leads to a bloody nose. For all his fecklessness and depravity, we follow Tonny through his blundering odyssey with a kind of fascination borne of the camera's implacable gaze; (even when we are not looking into his face, we are gazing at the back of his head, RESPECT tattooed across it.) Ultimately his double act of parricide and kidnap hits us as both a rousingly romantic gesture and a dread sign of history repeating itself.