Traffic (2000)
Genre: Crime / Drama
Duration: 147 minuten
Country:
United States / Germany
Directed by: Steven Soderbergh
Stars: Michael Douglas, Benicio Del Toro and Don Cheadle
IMDb score:
7,5 (229.704)
Releasedate: 27 December 2000
Traffic plot
"No one gets away clean"
Robert Wakefield has just been appointed head of counter-narcotics. But he doesn't know that his daughter is experimenting with drugs. It doesn't take long for her to become addicted and in trouble. Just across the border, in Mexico, the honest detective Javier Rodriguez faces the impossible task of doing his job while his colleagues are constantly bribed. And then there's housewife Helena who discovers her husband is a drug trafficker.
Actors and actresses
Robert Wakefield
Javier Rodriguez
Helena Ayala
Caroline Wakefield
Montel Gordon
Manolo Sanchez
Eduardo Ruiz
Ray Castro
Seth Abrahms
Gen. Arturo Salazar
Reviews & comments
Fisico
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- 10039 messages
- 5398 votes
Traffic has become a fascinating insight into the war on drugs based on a mosaic film in which four characters take center stage. The situations of these individuals are - if it is not already clear enough - distinguished from each other through color shades. On the one hand you have the cool blue colors for one story and the normal colors versus the yellow-brown tones. So it is not surprising that Soderbergh, among other things, scored highly with this technique at the Oscars at the time and was allowed to take home four coveted statuettes.
Technically, the film is well put together. Good cast with excellent acting as well. The different stories are nicely alternated so that it remains interesting. The daughter's story intrigued me the most. It never got sentimental. And there are indeed more explicit movies about drugs like Trainspotting or Requiem for a dream just to name those two. Traffic also draws attention to the hopeless and ruthless fight against drugs and the devastating impact it can have on society (corruption, crime, massacres, individual enrichment and damnation, ...). Thick 3.5* to close to 4.0* leaning.
Translated from Dutch · View original
De filosoof
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- 2486 messages
- 1697 votes
A very good film that highlights many aspects of the 'war on drugs' and thus provides a complete but also realistic picture. Not all scenes are equally strong, but most are, which results in an exciting, oppressive and penetrating film.
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