I saw a movie series this weekend at home called 'Pusher'...It takes place in Denmark, but is filled with a host of European characters: Serbs, Poles, Albanians, Germans etc...Of course, the series was about the adventures of a bunch of European low-lives: heroin, coke & meth dealers, car theives, money-launderers, white slave traders...It was very stark and oppressive, and almost none of the characters had any redeeming human qualities whatsoever...My questions are these: If you have seen any of the three films, what is your opinion of them?...and, secondly, is today's Europe really quite as stark and brutal as the one depicted in the films?
Pusher 3 (2005)
Director: Nicolas Winding Refn
From Time Out London
‘Pusher 3’ (full title: ‘I’m the Angel of Death AKA Pusher 3’) offers more of the same, pulling tight focus on Serbian drug kingpin Milo (Zlatko Buric), the chillingly affable hood who Frank owed in I and cameoed in a pivotal scene in II. He cuts a less commanding figure here, however, as the stresses stack up. Over the course of a day we see him simultaneously grappling with kicking heroin, a misdelivered batch of ecstasy tablets, henchmen who are literally shitting their pants, vicious Albanian gangsters, not to mention cooking for his beloved daughter’s twenty-fifth birthday party.
http://www.timeout.com/film/newyork/reviews/83071/im-the-angel-of-deat h.html
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