Pusher (1996)

Did you people see the same film I saw?

It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.

A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

There are moments in this movie where the great movie it could've been peek out... They're fleeting, here, but they're worth savoring, and they happen often enough to make it worth your while.

I am danish and I do not like this movie, well and that goes for most movies by Nikolas Refn winding.The lead character is boring. The dialog is often painfully constructed and knowing drug dealers in Copenhagen at that time in the 90' I can say they did not speak like that at all! The movie has its funny moments I most give it that but the story in general is just one stupid and not realistic moment after the other.How this movie got its fame is beyond my understanding What to fill out for the last line?? THere are thousands of better movies to watch so skip this one.Skip most of Nikolas Refn Windings movies they are overrated! SKip danish movies in general

Although i've heard only good things about Pusher, it took me several years to pick it up. The result was surprisingly good.The movie is shot almost as a documentary, which is well suited for the subject it depicts. Unlike hip-hop videos advertising gangster lifestyle, Pusher shows us the reality of a low level drug dealer. There is no glamor, but rather hard labor without strict working hours providing questionable financial gain.Serbian gangsters are depicted rather realistically, presumably due to Slavko Labović'S experience as bouncer and mingling in the appropriate milieu.Despite its independent funding, Pusher is rubbing shoulders with the best gangster movies of all times.

What drew me to this film wasn't the fact that there are two remakes of this film but due to the fact that this is the directorial debut of Nicolas Winding Refn. The Danish director who made the impressive and brutal Bronson and equally entertaining Drive.Filmed in a naturalistic nature, the camera follows the central character Frank and his associate Tonny through their day to day life in an objective manner. The film kicks off with the two of them wheeling and dealing (the narrative does not pause for breath for minor details such as background characters and situations, we are just pushed straight into the world of drugs, dealers and buyers).An offer of a big deal comes along in shape of a large buyer and Frank goes to his suppler Milo to obtain the goods. Milo is reluctant to give him that much without money upfront as Frank still owes a substantial amount but on the condition that Frank pays him the following day, Frank accepts. When he goes to do the deal with the buyer, things start to go very bad for him as the police are waiting for him and he has to throw away tip all the goods into a lake. In the following few days Frank has to come up with a large amount of money or face the consequences.What comes across you straight away is the immediacy and intensity in the way in which the camera follows our protagonist. Medium close up and long cuts pushes the audience closer into the seedy world of drug pushers and the criminal world. confined spaces in the car and apartments makes it feel claustrophobic and trapped in this underground business.An altogether rawness and close to documentary quality to the picture makes it feel almost real and gritty. As Frank becomes more and more desperate the mood and atmosphere changes, making viewing feel ever increasingly uncomfortable.A powerful and harsh look into the world of drug dealers shot with roughness and unremorseless savagery. With the character Frank, we not suppose to sympathise with, but he shows enough emotion that there is a connection that he is still human underneth it all. A great performance from all involved, mesmerizing and montrous in equal measure. It's a film that will burn in your memory for a long time.

I just watched Kim Bodnia in Terribly Happy, and went looking for some of his older stuff. This film interested me because it tells the story of a drug dealer who gets in trouble with his boss (Zlatko Buric).In order to get out of trouble, he goes deeper and deeper into madness. He even uses his girlfriend (Laura Drasbæk).He's in the hole for 230,000 and has a murder hanging over him.He makes a deal to get out, but his girlfriend takes his money. Now what? Well, you won't know until the next film.Buric was great. Bodnia was not as good as he was in Terribly happy, but he still presented a great character that just seemed short of a sociopath.