R | 2h 8min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 23 November 2005 (USA)
For the movie “Traffic,” Oscar-winning screenwriter Stephen Gaghan took what is easily one of the most controversial and divisive of global issues (illegal drugs) and did the near impossible. He wrote a film where no one was innocent, everyone got their hands dirty, and the good guys were just as, if not more, dangerous than the bad guys.
Gaghan never took a moral or ethical stance on his subject, and he created a plethora of diverse characters who presented their own wide range of differing viewpoints and opinions.
George Clooney as Bob Barnes in “Syriana.” (Warner Bros. Pictures)
In the end he had them asking, what’s the real problem: drugs themselves, people who sell them, people who use them, or the assorted governments so ineptly trying to police them? He never got an answer.
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