Wednesday, December 12, 1973
University Daily Kansan
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'Heavv Traffic' Missing Something
Bv YAEL ABOUHALKAH
Kansan Reviewer
After viewing "Heavy Traffic," one gets a sense that he's missed something quite important.
Surely it wasn't the cartoons. The movie is built upon the cartoon characters of Mr. Grinch, a swallow-headed cartoonist, his dwelling mother, his mother father; his black girlfriend who's described as "over-amorous"; several other girls; an assortment of friends, enemies and wizards.
Don't bother to memorize the names of the cast. They have little to say to each other, preferring to vent their frustrations through either sex or violence.
Throughout "Heavy Traffic," cartoon characters' heads, arms and legs are blown off and the red blood drips from the wounds to make sure we know the characters are in danger. We learn that cartoons except the blood is allowed to be seen, which is a taboo on television.
Although the movie could have been rated PG, if some scenes had been clipped, it earns its erotic rating in a few crude scenes. Even though these scenes are the surrealistic sense of the movie in the surrealistic sense of the movie.
Skipping through "Heavy Traffic," we
From those clips, it evident there's no shortage of deep social meaning in "Heavy
small flash of light indicates Michael's score. Unfortunately, this scene is repeated several more times with even less meaning.
can see the life philosophies of several of the major characters. Michael's father: "Your father's get respect in this neighborhood—so what if I screw around a little?" Michael: "Mick Jagger I'm not. I'm just no good with the girls," and he's wrong. Michael's apartment: "We're all niggers—some of us just don't know it vet."
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Traffic. "Evident also, though, is that there was an accident to be admitted by the social media message."
One is led to believe that "Heavy Traffic" is Michael's own pinball machine on which he scores every time but never gets killed. Maybe that's true, but there are many more that don't make this than with cartoon characters and a setting as improbable as it is dull.
Which finally brings to mind the impersonation missing in "Heavy radial" criticism?
At its opening night performance, the movie drew a few laughs and created a tense triumph were almost too long. Many scenes overplayed their stay on the screen and played their absurd roles too convincingly. Mercifully, the movie lasted
In the opening scene of the movie, an over-voice asks the audience, "What makes you happy? Where do you hide? Where does it all go? Where does it all lead?"
These are probably the same questions audiences who see "Heavy Traffic" will be asking.
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