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gives a cool, slick and outright awesome the words social awareness. No film in
performance as a young writer who soon 2000 matched the importance of Traffic,
finds trouble after getting a job dealing or the artistry with which the film is told.
cards at a casino. It's one of those films Soderbergh weaves together a conglomer
that hits with the right story at the right ate of drug-influenced stories with the
time. Nothing stands out; everything is keen eye of a man at the top of his career.
This is a film that should not be missed.
right on
3. Shadow of the Vampire 1. Requiem for a Dream
What can I say; I've There are drug movies
never seen anything quite and then there is Requiem.
like it. Willem DaFoe gives To put it simply, Requiem
us one of the best perfor- is the anti-drug film that
mances of his career as the Trainspotting wished it
vampire in F.W. Murnau's could be. In only his sec-
Noseferatu. Shadow is a and film, Darren
fictional account of the Aronofsky (Pi) has given
making of the classic hor- us a masterpiece of film
ror film and is handled making. The story shows
ingeniously by director the downward plummet of
Elias Merhige. The balance four characters into the har
of comedy and creepiness, rowing world of addiction.
as well as fact and fiction, make for a film It is a ht.- icing, nerve-splintering post
that is constantly in evolution mode, all modernist's dream. Not only does
the way up to the uneasy, chilling climax. Aronofsky use every trick in the book to
show us an outsider's view of addiction,
but he also shoots us deep into the subjec-
2. Traffic
In full Hollywood art-house mode, tive mess created by minds in peril. It's a
Steven Soderbergh directs with passion beautiful film. I was caught up by the story
and force , in a film that gives meaning to and driven to tears by the craft.
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