Film Human Traffic

[tambourine-man]

Tribal girl is right.
On first veiwing I thought it was a good film, but sebsequent watches made me think it was a self-aware piece of crap. Written by drug uses to excuse the drug culture, it fails to portray any of the negative consequenses of substance use. Trainspotting slays this film, as does requiem for a dream.

When I fist watched it, I liked it for exactly that reason. At the time, club culture was at it's peak in Britain and the film capitalised on that popularity. It capitalised in a totally unabashed way with all the clichés: rants about commercialism, a global movement, and even an excruciatin plug for Bill Hicks - but it was good for it's time... even more so as the 'negative consequences' of MDMA use were being absurdly skewed by the mass media's fetish for Leah Betts (the-girl-who-died-from-ecstasy®™).

If the film degrades with subsequent viewings (something I agree with), it's probably due to it being such a defining product of it's time. Specific subcultures come and go... so you can imagine how quickly counter-cultures products rise and fall from grace.

Good film... for it's time.

 

[alasdairm]

Tribal girl is right.
On first veiwing I thought it was a good film, but sebsequent watches made me think it was a self-aware piece of crap. Written by drug uses to excuse the drug culture, it fails to portray any of the negative consequenses of substance use. Trainspotting slays this film, as does requiem for a dream.

i'd go further - it doesn't just excuse the drug culture, it celebrates it. is that necessarily a bad thing? i(if) t made a conscious choice not to portray negative consequences - is that necessarily a bad thing given the amount of other material in the media which does just that? does a work of fiction like this have to be balanced? if so, why?

that said, i'm not sure your comment is even that accurate as the movie it does touch on the negative consequences of drug use: koops drug-based insecurity and paranoia; moff's paranoia; jip's ed; the whole 'what goes up must come down' scene in the kitchen.

alasdair

 

[college_dropout]

Tribal girl is right.
On first veiwing I thought it was a good film, but sebsequent watches made me think it was a self-aware piece of crap. Written by drug uses to excuse the drug culture, it fails to portray any of the negative consequenses of substance use. Trainspotting slays this film, as does requiem for a dream.

Human Traffic is a movie which is supposed to be just a bit of fun. And the majority of people in the drug culture just have a bit of fun with drugs and that's it, so it is a good reflection. Movies like Requiem for a Dream, while being a good watch, are pretty unrealistic. It does show the consequences of abuse, but only a small percentage of drug users will end up there.

 

[Jenksican_commaTOM]

Safe as fuck.

 

[Hazey]

Great fucking movie. Period.

 

[BallDrager]

I enjoyed it.

 

[Rated E]

Tribal girl is right.
On first veiwing I thought it was a good film, but sebsequent watches made me think it was a self-aware piece of crap. Written by drug uses to excuse the drug culture, it fails to portray any of the negative consequenses of substance use. Trainspotting slays this film, as does requiem for a dream.

You dont sound like you've watched the film many times. The negative consequences of drug use are most certainly potrayed throughout the film (paranoia, impotence, comedowns, lack of direction in life, ect). The film just chooses to potray drug culture in a more positve light.

"Trainspotting slays the film, as does requiem for a dream".
Its not a competition, they are all different movies which focus on different aspects. Personally i can relate to Human Traffic's (both negative and positive) view on drug culture.

 

[Tranced]

cheesey and cliche.

Plus it is responsible for making loads of people shout "nice one bruvvaaaa" for ages, getting longer each time in the toilets when I was out clubbing once which really made me cringe.

 

[staypuft]

what's your name?

what are you on?

reach for the lasers!

safe as fuck!!!

 

[Puddito]

what's your name?

what are you on?

reach for the lasers!

safe as fuck!!!

cue crazy dance, hahaha great quote

 

[duck_racer]

It has its flaws and clichés but Human Traffic is still a great movie. Too many fantastic scenes to mention. The fast food body poppers, spliff politics, puffin' the 'erb, Mr Floppy...

Great film and it always reminds me of being cuddled on the sofa with friends after a night out.

Love it :D

 

[Rated E]

cheesey and cliche.

Plus it is responsible for making loads of people shout "nice one bruvvaaaa" for ages, getting longer each time in the toilets when I was out clubbing once which really made me cringe.

Nice One Bruuuuvvvvvvvaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa !! :D

 

[jiggaboo]

one of the greatest movies ever, loved it!!! puffin da herb puffin da herb puff puff puffin da herb

 

[alasdairm]

^ something we can finally agree on

you've been pretty quiet lately. good to see you posting again.

alasdair

 

[Rated E]

I really disliked this movie. In fact I remember being almost violently opposed to it when I saw it...

But then again, I dislike ecstasy... And I'm a bit of an asshole... Maybe that has something to do with it...

I'd say that has alot to do with it :D

 

[L2R]

I enjoyed the bit of fun this film represented back when i could empthise with the scenarios. I have much less patience with it now.
There're MANY much more interesting and stimulating drug related films out there.

 

[Don Luigi]

Moff has to be the best character in that film. Although Koops dancing is class.

 

[xena]

that's definitely a funny movie. it did a great job of capturing the whole scene as well. there are so many great quotes from that movie.

 

[uacvax]

I like the part where the main character is rebuttalling all the side effects of ecstasy that the teacher is telling the girl's little brother, except for the one about erectile dysfunction. all in all i really enjoyed the film and that's all that matters to me

 

[E-llusion]

Rumour has it HT2 is in the works