Traffic Film Analysis
Traffic is a 2000 film directed by Steven Soderbergh that focuses on the drug trade between the United States and Mexico, the factors that encourage individuals to promote the drug trade, and what steps are being taken to curb the drug trade. The film relays a very realistic interpretation of the proverbial war on drugs and demonstrates that drug culture has becomes so ingrained in society that it may be impossible to completely stop the drug trade between the United States and Mexico, or the United States with any other country.
Traffic seeks to investigate the ideologies of those that attempt to stop the trafficking of drugs between the United States and Mexico and those individuals and/or groups who promote drug trafficking either out of necessity or because they want to expand territorial claims. In the film, ideologies can be divided based on nationality and further divided based upon individuals that aim wage war on drug trafficking, i.e. law enforcement officials and federal agencies, and those individuals that promote drug trafficking, i.e. drug dealers and users.
One of the ideologies that are promoted through the film is the belief that drugs and crime can be controlled through the use of federal resources. At the beginning of the film in the first plotline, Mexican police officers Javier Rodriguez (Benicio del Toro) and Manolo Sanchez (Jacob Vargas) apprehend a delivery truck filled with drugs headed towards the United States. Despite their efforts, the shipment is confiscated by Mexican Federales. Rodriguez and Sanchez are drawn deeper into the drug underworld when they are hired bring a hitman with ties to a competing Mexican drug cartel from San Diego, California back to Tijuana in Mexico. In the second plotline, which focuses on Judge Robert Wakefield (Michael Douglas) and his family, the film focuses on the efforts put forth by the United States at a federal...
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