Traffic (Criterion Collection)
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TRAFFIC examines the question of drugs as politics, business, and lifestyle. With an innovative, color-coded cinematic treatment distinguishing his interwoven stories, Steven Soderbergh (OCEANS ELEVEN, CHE) embroils viewers in the lives of a newly appointed drug czar and his family, a West Coast kingpins wife, a key informant, and police officers on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border. The film, delivering a complex and nuanced take on this issue of such great international importance without sacrificing any energy or suspense, is a contemporary classic, and the winner of four Oscars, for best director, best screenplay, best editing, and best supporting actor for Benicio del Toro (FEAR AND LOATHING IN LAS VEGAS).
