Heavy Traffic

i have owned this movie for years. I never really watched it. It was quite good. Ralph bakshi really pumped out the movies in the seventies. Which is pretty impressive considering the were all animated and he used all americans making the films. I would be hard pressed to see someone do that these days. Granted he probably payed them in fucking paper and ink, but still. Its cool to see that these movies even exist. They deal with real people problems of the time and era. The make adult cartoons these days too, but that just means pron

Don't get me wrong i like pron as much as the next guy, and bakshi has his share of tits and stuff in his movies, but they are not pruriently presented. What this movie does deal with is a young man coming out of his shell, dealing with racism, spoiler*** he dies because of it, and labor disputes. All of this comes together to make a fairly interesting movie. Not to mention the old bakshi way of splicing real film, animation and music together to make an intersting tapestry. Seeing cartoon characters drive a car with real NY background is pretty cool. and to see the actors that they based the characters at the end of the movie, sort of pantomime an ending was both satisfing and leaves you wanting more. Also seeing the dirty NY of the seventies was pretty cool. It really was the naked city still back then.

this was a good movie, not for kids but for disolusioned people about my age. bakshi was way ahead of his time.

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