Now....Lets talk about "Traffic"

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This is maybe the most difficult movie to watch because there is absolutely no good ending and really, thats the moral of the story. The losses that takes thru the film is crazy.

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Seeing her become a fukkin dope whore was crazy and this is maybe the first time a movie showed the fact that suburban rich white girls and boys are fukkin freebasing and shooting up during the lunch break and after class.

I have/had fam in the feds very close to the juarez/tiajuana drug war and shyt is as diry or more seedy than the film made it look. When eduardo etherized don cheadles charactor:

"Can't you for one second imagine that none of this happened, and my drugs and gone through? What would be the harm? :mindblown: huh? A few people get high that are getting high anyway..:ufdup: your partners still alive...we dont have to have breakfast together... Dont you see this means nothing? Your whole life is pointless :birdman:. The worst part about you monty is that you realize the futility about what youre doing and still do it anyway. :stopitslime:"

Loved the camera work, the filters and color used...great film...but at the end youre just :whew: and :wow:

A-, to a solid A
 

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A favorite of mine, easily one of the best movies about the war on drugs, and trafficking itself, ever made. It's a shame Hollywood keeps turning out these bullshyt movies, 'Savages', 'The Last Stand', that ridicule, and cheapen the entire subject. I remember when I saw this with two best friends when i was 15...after the movie we got into a huge argument about whether or not the 'war on drugs' is working, these dudes were on their straight Republican shyt, and I was not having it...funny, looking back at that conversation years later. I was in the wrong too though, because I was looking Eric from that '70's Show', like he had something important to say, now I see just a weasely little kid, but his point was a fair one.
 

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I still remember watching this in Harlem, last showing during the middle of the week and it was on some..."hey there is nothing to do, let's go watch a movie or something" Traffic was about to start in a couple of minutes and we said...:manny: let's watch it.

By the end we came out :ohhh: I can't believe this shyt. That ending still gets to me, it will always get to me.
 

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I didn't read ONE response but I'm sure the SMUT shyt with that blonde girl in that drug house with that nygga has been mentioned at least once:yes:
 

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Well...there were 3 opinions before mine including yours and I didn't read shyt except the title. I know how a Ed Gizzle movie topic goes by now so there was no need for that bullshyt.
 

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This is maybe the most difficult movie to watch because there is absolutely no good ending and really, thats the moral of the story. The losses that takes thru the film is crazy.

hepwrpbu1w5uwppu.jpg

Seeing her become a fukkin dope whore was crazy and this is maybe the first time a movie showed the fact that suburban rich white girls and boys are fukkin freebasing and shooting up during the lunch break and after class.

I have/had fam in the feds very close to the juarez/tiajuana drug war and shyt is as diry or more seedy than the film made it look. When eduardo etherized don cheadles charactor:

"Can't you for one second imagine that none of this happened, and my drugs and gone through? What would be the harm? :mindblown: huh? A few people get high that are getting high anyway..:ufdup: your partners still alive...we dont have to have breakfast together... Dont you see this means nothing? Your whole life is pointless :birdman:. The worst part about you monty is that you realize the futility about what youre doing and still do it anyway. :stopitslime:"

Loved the camera work, the filters and color used...great film...but at the end youre just :whew: and :wow:

A-, to a solid A

:childplease:

I want to Soul Clap your rep for saying this dumb shyt right here :ufdup:
 

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It was a pretty insightful point, and was in the movie, imo, to sum up what many opponents of war on drugs have been saying for years, in a few cutting sentences. Soderberghs depiction of Tijuana is the best in film, ever, as someone who grew up going to TJ, since I was 8 years old. The casting and locations were all on point too, Steven Bauer, his sleazy lawyer, Zeta Jones, in her best role, such a layered and intricate movie. I still remember those friends of mine, bytching and crying, that there wasn't enough action, these dudes thought they were going to see 'XXX' or something, and got 3 hours of Mexican/US politics, and social commentary.
 
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It was a pretty insightful point, and was in the movie, imo, to sum up what many opponents of war on drugs have been saying for years, in a few cutting sentences. Soderberghs depiction of Tijuana is the best in film, ever, as someone who grew up going to TJ, since I was 8 years old. The casting and locations were all on point too, Steven Bauer, his sleazy lawyer, Zeta Jones, in her best role, such a layered and intricate movie. I still remember those friends of mine, bytching and crying, that there wasn't enough action, these dudes thought they were going to see 'XXX' or something, and got 3 hours of Mexican/US politics, and social commentary.

Really interesting take, never knew that, thx
 

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That hit us with the POV scene Ol girl getting smut out :scusthov:
Not the POV I was looking for
 
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:heh:& :damn: when Vonte Sweet (Sharrif from Menace II Society) was pounding that out while she was all drugged up.

Apart from that a really great film. Benicio Del Toro, Mike Douglas, Catherine Zita Jones & Dennis Quid all shined in this.
 
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