Human Traffic: Screening Notes

Human Traffic, 1999
- historical example
- youth culture
- representation
- paralells between Human Traffic and Quadrophenia

Character list built from opening sequence:
- Jip - paranoid
- Koop - paranoid
- Nina - dramatic, bored of job
- Lulu - feminist
- Moff - confident/lazy, drug user

Notes made during screening:

• Rioting, clubbing, mass groups, violent, troublemakers, action, drugs, youths.
• Music is important to them - heavy beat and hip hop.
• Male adult - power, boss.
• Feel like robots in their job - bored, want adventure.
• Parents have problems too.
• "Chemical generation" - drugs.
• Inspired by adult comedians - drugs.
• Radio 1 reference.
• Drugs before clubbing - "revved up".
• "Music we love bought us together and so did the music we hate" - music is important.
• Adults = sensible and responsible - contrast to laid back Jip about drugs.
• Parents "really don't understand" - teens think employment is miserable.
• "I want to lose my inhibitions".
• Their generation is alienated - techno emergency and virtual reality - they're running out of ideas.
• Joking about Trainspotting making them take heroin - their perception of what adults believe they do.
• "Youth of today need older people to show them what to do".
• Drugs/alcohol cause anger and halucinations - paranoia.
• Drink driving.
• Heavy dance music - partying.
• Social pressures.
• "We're no longer altogether as one but seperate mental patients" - end of the night.
• Drugs make them lose their sense of reality.
• Adults don't understand youth - they think they have no discipline, no respect due to them not having the correct upbrining.
• Paralells between Moff and Jimmie - Modd cut himself off from family group.
• Moff coming off drugs - 'being serious' because he's 'dissolving'.
• Moff walking around London - music change to slow music.
• Had epiphony at the end - didn't want to do it anymore.
• Jip's end music contrasts Moff's.