Not even a sniff, thanks! (Traffic (DVD))

Member Name: macutmore

Product:	Traffic (DVD)
Date:	28/01/01 (31 review reads)
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Advantages: Some Mexican culture

Disadvantages: So harrowing it's not entertaining. (Too realistic to be)!

Basically portraying the ‘drug problem’ in the states in a harrowing kind of fashion. Virtually the whole movie is shot with a ginger tinge to its colour and if that isn’t bearable there are plenty of subtitles too.

If this one were on TV, I would have changed channels after the first ten minutes. No such luck here. A good thing about the film (if there is one) is that it does show insight into Mexican culture. Sadly it also shows hardcore American Culture too (why do we love it?).

Not since ‘Midnight express’ though have I seen such an ‘unsavoury’ movie. It centres on the message that just about everyone is corrupt. It reminds us what real life is and what the real roles of drugs are in America and Mexico, (could it get as bad over here?).

There is no action. Even at the end of the film (I didn’t believe that it would ever end), you remain seated and perhaps thankful that you are in fact in the UK! Might be worth seeing if you are on drugs though, if only from an awareness point of view. No thanks!

Not even Catherine Zeta-Jones could sway me this time.

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