wmberezowki Traffic was an okay film, and that's pretty well my complete opinion on it. I appreciated the message and thought it was interesting, but I had trouble staying completely engaged throughout. This movie isn't too old and although I wasn't too enthralled by it, I do think it aged well. The cinematography may not be the most spectacular but it does has nice aspects that aren't dated yet (the tone, the shots). For me, the different tones from each location were the most interesting part to watch, seeing where they put each colour in and when and also why. I was wondering why they put the blue on only sometimes in Washington; I think I would've figured it out if I had watched closer. I think the colour tones helped move the storyline along really nicely as it created a different mood and feeling each time it switched. Much enjoyed. In the end when Michael Douglas resigned, I think it was because he finally realized he was fighting a losing battle. The drug war was hopeless and he knew it because there are always going to be more people filling in for those who get arrested. Also, he knew he couldn't be fighting his daughter because she would just spiral further; it wouldn't work. A final reason would be that he knew he was doing the right thing by stepping down; he needed to lead the next movement of helping and supporting those who struggle with substance abuse instead of fighting them and pushing them away. All in all, a decent film.

ericou-40022 Traffic was an interesting movie, it had very intense scenes but also boring parts. I think it would have been a good movie back in the 2000s, but now it hasn't been aged so well. The different tones in the scenes help you know the difference in places and situations, so in one part it helped in the other part maybe the color they added was maybe too intense. However, the movie was filmed good, all the angles and the characters were also very good.

juliafontanezi Even though the movie was made in 2000, the subject stills up and really important to be discussed, since until today it's a tabu in society and many people need to be informed about it. Robert Wakefield had a really important post in the film, but he resigned it after seeing that the traffic is really different from what he thought. He realized that after losing his own daughter to the drugs, which was a good student and from a "good" family, so the concept that all the drug addicts was bad people was wrong. Also, he realized that there was no way to stop the traffic, since even if they arrest an important drug dealer, someone else would replace him. Another thing was that, he saw that most of the drug dealers didn't had another choice, so they were doing this for the sake of survival. The difference tones helped the storyline by the fact that is easier to notice where the part is happening.

thejoudblitz This gem of the millennium comes with a great story (which has been done countless times before and after), great actors (funny faced most of them), and very well done action.Unfortunately all is wasted on the terrible actual telling of that story and its people in action. We get weird colors, useless zoom ins, shots into nothing, a boring soundtrack, the whole thing stripped off any continuity and stretched to 2 hours 30 minutes.It is understandable the makers of this film wanted to underline the realism with a documentary style, but come on. Or maybe they just were on some of the drugs shown in the picture, or maybe, and that must be it, they wanted the audience to feel like they were on drugs.