{"id":520,"date":"2009-03-25T01:27:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-25T09:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4853555578172391551.post-7340967878253528714"},"modified":"2009-04-29T16:09:29","modified_gmt":"2009-04-30T00:09:29","slug":"traffic-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/span404\/2009\/03\/25\/traffic-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Traffic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One aspect of this movie that I found interesting occurred in the first couple of scenes.  There is a definite contrast in the level of organization between the Americans and Mexicans.  In a way, it seemed ironic.  The Mexican cops knew where the drugs were going to be even though it was a simple drop in the middle of the desert.  The Mexican army also knew what was happening and were very precise and disciplined in how they intercepted the police.  The Americans, on the other hand, had a much more complex and high tech way of trying to stop the drug smuggler, but the DEA and police ended up getting in each other\u2019s way because they had no communication between themselves.  Their drug bust ended up in a chaotic gunfight and chase, and the smuggler nearly got away.  In the Mexican scene, guns were drawn but never fired.  Their bust was more controlled, which is opposite of what you would expect from the Mexican side.<br \/>\nI liked how this movie was contrasting to the other movies that we\u2019ve seen in this class where the sections are split up and generally (mainly at first) the two countries were separate instead of like in The Wild Bunch where we were mainly evaluating the Americans physically in Mexico.<br \/>\nAll of the Americans in the movie are upper class Americans, even the kids are rich &#8211; rich and drug addicts. But it wasn\u2019t like a common theme where Americans are rich and Mexicans are poor because the movie showed both rich and poor Mexicans.<br \/>\nIn a lot of the parts in the US that had something to do with Michael Douglas and his family, the screen was blue and everything in Mexico had a gold\/bronze screen. Why? Maybe it\u2019s partly to make the different sections even more contrasting and easily distinguishable?<br \/>\nMichael Douglas\u2019 character is as concerned with helping drug users as he is with stopping drugs, perhaps because of his daughter\u2019s drug problem.  He ends up talking to the General, and asks him about Mexico\u2019s treatment of addiction and his answer is that when they overdose, there\u2019s one less person to worry about. This is another example of how Mexico and the US contrast in this movie.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/res1.blogblog.com\/tracker\/4853555578172391551-7340967878253528714?l=span4042009.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One aspect of this movie that I found interesting occurred in the first couple of scenes.  There is a definite contrast in the level of organization between the Americans and Mexicans.  In a way, it seemed ironic.  The Mexican cops knew where the drugs&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[333,3508],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-responses","category-traffic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/span404\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/span404\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/span404\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/span404\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/span404\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=520"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/span404\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":613,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/span404\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520\/revisions\/613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/span404\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/span404\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/span404\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}