Summary:
A review of the movie "Traffic," directed by Stephen Soderbergh, with its themes of the drug trade and a wide variety of emotions.
Movies are meant to bring out a whole host of emotions in a variety of ways: excitement, resentment, comedy, horror, elation, depression, suspicion, surprise...fight, goal, discovery, incarceration, newborn, liftoff, death, triumph, racing, mystery... Traffic is a movie that brings out of all these emotions in every shape and form. It keeps the audience intrigued throughout and keeps them coming back for more.
"The subject is drugs- or more precisely, the so-called war on drugs that the United States government has been waging for many a long and controversial year... Traffic amounts to a 140- minute commentary on American efforts to stem the tide of illicit drugs through a wide assortment of varyingly effective means, from infiltration of the narcotics underworld to treatment of drug- dependent individuals." The plot deepens as three main narrative threads intersect and.....
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