Human Traffic (US)
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The weekend has landed
Certificate: R
Running Time: 84 mins
Retail Price: $32.99
Release Date:
Content Type: Movie
Synopsis:
The real story of youth in the nineties is this: chemicals, clubs, bars, pubs, pushing the vinyl, blagging the guest list, mobile phones, trainers, combats, care-less, monged, mashed, sorted, safe. And it`s right here in first time writer-director Justin Kerrigan`s Human Traffic, in all its pupil-dilated, teeth-grinding, club-hopping glory.
The film focuses on the lives and loves of five individuals, who spend their week working mundane jobs, waiting for the weekend so that they can immerse themselves in a whirl of pubs, clubs and parties.
Revolving around a single, meticulously planned and titanically drug-addled night out in Cardiff, Human traffic is the first and last word in club-culture.
With Pete Tong`s soundtrack and featuring Fat Boy Slim, Orbital, The Chemical Brothers, Underworld and Armand Van Helden, and cameos from DJ Carl Cox, cpmedienne Jo Brand and `Mr Nice` Howard Marks, Human Traffic treats you to one night out you won`t want to miss.
Special Features:
Animated Menus
Scene Access
Theatrical Trailer
Video Tracks:
Widescreen Anamorphic 1.85:1
Audio Tracks:
Dolby Digital 5.1 English
Subtitle Tracks:
CC: English
Directed By:
Justin Kerrigan
Justin Kerrigan
Starring:
Justin Kerrigan
Dean Davies
Nicola Reynolds
Danny Dyer
Shaun Parkes
Lorraine Pilkington
John Simm
Casting By:
Sue Jones
Gary Howe
Jason Camelleri
Soundtrack By:
Rob Mellow
Mathew Herbert
Editor:
Patrick Moore
Costume Designer:
Claire Anderson
Production Designer:
David Buckingham
Producer:
Rupert Preston
Alain Niblio
Emer McCourt
Arthur Baker
Executive Producer:
Michael Wearing
Nigel Warren-Green
Kevin Menton
Renata S. Aly
Distributor:
Buena Vista
Your Opinions and Comments
While trying to be artistic, this movie depicts the clubs and drugs scene at its worst, or in other words, very accurately. Since I`m completely detached from the reality described in the movie, I can only say that I pity the dumb fools who make their lives look like this.
The movie however, is content-less. No plot, no character development, no sub-plots, no twist. Nothing.
The video transfer is ok. There are no compression signs, but the picture seems a bit blurred or out of focus in several scenes. While this is acceptable while describing drug usage, this happens in many unrelated scenes as well.
The DD 5.1 soundtrack is good. While there are no sound effects at all, the surrounds are used for pumping up the (horrible) music and create the crowd noise of the clubs.
The menus are all still.
There are no extras on this disk at all.
Bottom line - if you ever needed (another) reason for not doing drugs, watch this movie. Otherwise, you might as well save the 84 minutes of its running time. A complete waste of time.