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Traffic provides a great understanding of the drug war for those that don't read. It is entertaining and absorbing movie that lets the viewer decided for him/herself about what is wrong with the war and what should be done. However, there is a part missing from this movie that needs to be covered and brought to public attention, somehow. It the CIA's involvement in helping drug lords and permitting the use of that kind of money in thier operations. Like in the 60s, when the CIA hooked up with organized crime to whack the beard... times and faces have changed, but things remain the same. From Vietnam with Air America and opium, they became involved with drugs. The CIA even admitted to helping drug dealers in the 80s because thier money was being used to help the contras... but it is DARKER then that. With a little reading, you can find out more about our shadow government. I suggest you all read Dark Alliance by Gary Webb... among other great books. Because they won't make it a movie, anytime soon. Unless Oliver Stone feels the urge.

I am outraged at watching this horrible sell-out movie that serves the purpose of making money and promoting FedEx as a saintly company. It starts out watching the efficent delivery of a package. Then Tom Hanks giving speeches about packages not even being a minute late and FedEx can not be like the postal service. Hell, the movie makes it painfully obvious he cares more about FedEx then his girl. Then the FedEx plane crashes. He is stranded and FedEx packages float to shore and save him. On the way he makes friends with a wilson volleyball and the sell-out director even goes low enough to name the ball "wilson", so you can be reminded what brand the freaking ball is! Then he gets back on a FedEx plane. FedEx people give speeches about him. Then after breaking up his girl, he goes to deliver a FedEx package. This delivery of the package that "saved" his life, leads him to another romantic interest just in the nick of time. What am I saying? FedEx is god. This movie warped my fragile little mind. I can't wait until all movies, songs and book are about companies!

Yes, you heard me right. The violence vs. consumer culture is only a sub-theme in this movie. If you dig a little deeper, you will find that this movie is really about insanity. It is one the first movies to take us inside the mind of a madman. And it shows up an internal battle between the free "do what I feel like when I feel like it" macho guy and the scared moral materialistic vulnerable guy. The free and the restrained. Both are towards the extremes. This race toward the edge destroys the world or the world as the main character sees it. It destroys his reality. I think this movie is really about what is called "the middle path" by Buddists. It's a very creative and visually mind blowing way of portraying it.