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How does Steven Soderbergh's Traffic illustrate ways in which film-makers may seek to disconcert audiences and challenge their beliefs and values?
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It is sometimes argued that one of the primary functions of popular film or broadcast fiction is to reassure audiences, and to confirm them in their beliefs and values. How does Steven Soderbergh's Traffic illustrate ways in which film-makers may seek to disconcert audiences and challenge their beliefs and values? Using a straightforward narrative can leave the audience with only one perception of a certain issue. Traffic has three different stories going on at once so this will give you three different points of view on the same issue. Which means the audience has to do more work and try to decide what their own beliefs about drugs and drug taking are. Using a multi-strand narrative means that the audience has to do the work to fully understand what is going on throughout the film. If the audience misses a scene or two it is very difficult to figure out what is...
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