Made with a budget of £340,000, Human Traffic has become a cult classic since its release. An interest and very surreal piece of film making set in the capital of Wales.
Human Traffic focuses on a group of five friends, Jip (John Simm), Lulu (Lorraine Pilkington), Koop (Shaun Parkers), Nina (Nicola Reynolds) and Moff (Danny Dyer), a combination of wage slaves, unemployed people and a student. All of them suffer from person troubles, Jip's mum is a prostitute, Koop's dad is in a psychiatric ward, Moff is in content conflict with his dad and Lulu has relationship problems. The gang to blow off some stream by having one wild weekend of clubbing to dance and techno music, drinking and consuming drugs, particularly ecstasy as Jip and Lulu discover their feeling for each other.
Human Traffic is a very surreal film, with a big of number of fantasy sequences. These scenes felt very much like a dark version of Scrubs, from Jip having an argument with an imaginary punter in his car, talking to someone thinking about taking drugs for the first time in a classroom and it was all pretty funny. Jip also broke the fourth wall, which reminded me of Saved by the Bell, weird.
Director Justin Kerrigan knows where to place to place the camera and he does make a stylist film. But there is not much of a plot, it is simply about a night out. The atmosphere in the club did fill real and people ho enjoy techno music will like the soundtrack. I also enjoyed the nonsense that druggies speak in this film.
John Simm is a talented actor and he was easily the best actor in the film. He is really does inhabit his role. The other actors were fine, even Danny Dyer haters can not complain about him here. But there is not too much to write home about either.
Human Traffic focuses on a group of five friends, Jip (John Simm), Lulu (Lorraine Pilkington), Koop (Shaun Parkers), Nina (Nicola Reynolds) and Moff (Danny Dyer), a combination of wage slaves, unemployed people and a student. All of them suffer from person troubles, Jip's mum is a prostitute, Koop's dad is in a psychiatric ward, Moff is in content conflict with his dad and Lulu has relationship problems. The gang to blow off some stream by having one wild weekend of clubbing to dance and techno music, drinking and consuming drugs, particularly ecstasy as Jip and Lulu discover their feeling for each other.
Human Traffic is a very surreal film, with a big of number of fantasy sequences. These scenes felt very much like a dark version of Scrubs, from Jip having an argument with an imaginary punter in his car, talking to someone thinking about taking drugs for the first time in a classroom and it was all pretty funny. Jip also broke the fourth wall, which reminded me of Saved by the Bell, weird.
Director Justin Kerrigan knows where to place to place the camera and he does make a stylist film. But there is not much of a plot, it is simply about a night out. The atmosphere in the club did fill real and people ho enjoy techno music will like the soundtrack. I also enjoyed the nonsense that druggies speak in this film.
John Simm is a talented actor and he was easily the best actor in the film. He is really does inhabit his role. The other actors were fine, even Danny Dyer haters can not complain about him here. But there is not too much to write home about either.