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movie review - Traffic

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

Sydney, 2001.03.11

Saw Traffic last night. Good flick. But long. And too many stars. It's certainly got its paint-by-numbers moments, and I rather felt that some of the actors might not have been sure of their direction but a number of the younger cast in particular really carried it.

God knows the drug situation needs attention.

Recommended.

rand()m quote

It has always seemed strange to me...The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.

—John Steinbeck, Cannery Row