Plus, Soderberg is arty as hell. I find his use of alternating film stocks irritating. Oliver Stone started this trend, and now everyone's doing it.
Did anyone else find the use of the piss-yellow, grainy stock for the "Mexico" scenes to be subtly racist/colonial? Imagine if it was inverted--if the Mexico footage was shot clear and bright and then every time he cut to Washington DC you were suddenly in a blurry miasma. (Might be more interesting, actually.)
Also, I found it ridiculously coincidental that Catherine Zeta-Jones would call Frankie Flores to do the hit, and even more ridiculous that he would accept the job from her. The last time we saw him he was a broken, weeping wreck. "Another job? Sure, I don't know you, but I'm your man!" Yeah, right.
For these and the reasons you guys mentioned (sleeping with a black man? gasp), I hated Traffic. What a phony crock!
frankie's name was in the painting that czj's husband told her to "look into"...that's how she got hooked up with him.
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- Tom Moody 3-01-2001 8:06 pm
frankie's name was in the painting that czj's husband told her to "look into"...that's how she got hooked up with him.
- linda 3-01-2001 9:34 pm [add a comment]