The movie, Traffic, directed by Steven Soderbergh, is a story that follows the lives of people involved in the drug trade, including dealers, abusers and the law enforcement officials who pursue those involved in these situations. The movie itself follows the lives of two drug enforcement officers in Mexico, two DEA agents from San Diego, a man who takes drugs to and from Mexico, a Supreme Court judge who is unaware of his daughter’s life decisions, and a millionaire family. We follow each story from beginning to end, making it seem as if we are observers through each scenario. This movie shows different sides of the world revolving around drugs and the high-risk issues of teenagers dealing with drug over use and abuse, as well as the risks
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We see a scene like this in the beginning of the movie where it starts off as the drug dealers being caught by two undercover cops in the middle of a drug trade.
After this part of the movie we move into the scene of a regular everyday family in Cincinnati Ohio, the father of this family is the very conservative Supreme Court justice who is actually put in place as the countries new drug czar. Though he is this strong and powerful man, he seems blinded by the fact that his daughter happens to become addicted to the drugs her group of friends decides to try. The daughter, Caroline, and her friends decide to turn to smoking a drug they have such easy access to, crack cocaine. From what we have learned in class and from the readings, we know cocaine “was also used in the United States in early versions of Coca-Cola and in many patent medicines” (Chapter 6 PowerPoint, slide 5) and that when “mixing cocaine with simple household chemicals, including baking soda and water, and then during it resulted in a limp of smokable cocaine (crack)” (Hart and Ksir, 127). We see Caroline in two different scenarios this one, and another where she is with her friend again, doing drugs and
We see a scene like this in the beginning of the movie where it starts off as the drug dealers being caught by two undercover cops in the middle of a drug trade.
After this part of the movie we move into the scene of a regular everyday family in Cincinnati Ohio, the father of this family is the very conservative Supreme Court justice who is actually put in place as the countries new drug czar. Though he is this strong and powerful man, he seems blinded by the fact that his daughter happens to become addicted to the drugs her group of friends decides to try. The daughter, Caroline, and her friends decide to turn to smoking a drug they have such easy access to, crack cocaine. From what we have learned in class and from the readings, we know cocaine “was also used in the United States in early versions of Coca-Cola and in many patent medicines” (Chapter 6 PowerPoint, slide 5) and that when “mixing cocaine with simple household chemicals, including baking soda and water, and then during it resulted in a limp of smokable cocaine (crack)” (Hart and Ksir, 127). We see Caroline in two different scenarios this one, and another where she is with her friend again, doing drugs and