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* SpiritualAntithesis: To ''Film/{{Trainspotting}}''; both feature groups of friends immersed in the UK drugs & clubbing culture in the 1980s, but where ''Trainspotting'' is more grimy and serious in its approach, ''Human Traffic'' is more light-hearted.
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* SpiritualAntithesis: To ''Film/{{Trainspotting}}''; both feature groups of friends immersed in the UK drugs & clubbing culture in the 1980s, 1990s, but where ''Trainspotting'' is more grimy and serious in its approach, ''Human Traffic'' is more light-hearted.
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* SpiritualAntithesis: To ''Film/Trainspotting''; ''Film/{{Trainspotting}}''; both feature groups of friends immersed in the UK drugs & clubbing culture in the 1980s, but where ''Trainspotting'' is more grimy and serious in its approach, ''Human Traffic'' is more light-hearted.
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* YourCheatingHeart: Early in the film, Lulu dumps her current boyfriend because he cheated on her, and it's revealed that the same thing happened with her previous two boyfriends.
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* BetaCouple: Koop and Nina, who are an established couple to Jip and Lulu's WillTheyOrWontThey (albeit experiencing some difficulties in their relationship).
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* TheLoinsSleepTonight: For most of the film, Jip is suffering from sexual anxiety due a string of failed liaisons.
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* SpiritualAntithesis: To ''Film/Trainspotting''; both feature groups of friends immersed in the UK drugs & clubbing culture in the 1980s, but where ''Trainspotting'' is more grimy and serious in its approach, ''Human Traffic'' is more light-hearted.
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* TheCameo: Several English music celebrities have cameos in this film.
** DJ Carl Cox as Pablo Hassan.
** DJ Mad Doctor X can be seen in the background of the record shop scene.
** Former cannabis smuggler turned author and motivational speaker Howard Marks as the host and narrator of the "Spliff Politics" scene.
** DJ Carl Cox as Pablo Hassan.
** DJ Mad Doctor X can be seen in the background of the record shop scene.
** Former cannabis smuggler turned author and motivational speaker Howard Marks as the host and narrator of the "Spliff Politics" scene.
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* CastTheExpert:
** When Jip picks up Koop in his car, the radio DJ is played by real-life English radio DJ Pete Tong, who is also the film's musical advisor.
** Stand-up comedian Jo Brand has a cameo as "Reality", who has a conversation with Moff about his drug problem. In real life, Brand was once a psychiatric nurse.
* DescendedCreator:
** Director Justin Kerrigan plays a minor character named "Ziggy Marlon". He first appears in the record shop scene, asking Koop "Any new jungle in, guy?".
** When Jip picks up Koop in his car, the radio DJ is played by real-life English radio DJ Pete Tong, who is also the film's musical advisor.
** Stand-up comedian Jo Brand has a cameo as "Reality", who has a conversation with Moff about his drug problem. In real life, Brand was once a psychiatric nurse.
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** Director Justin Kerrigan plays a minor character named "Ziggy Marlon". He first appears in the record shop scene, asking Koop "Any new jungle in, guy?".
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[[caption-width-right:270:The weekend has landed.]]
Human Traffic is a 1999 British-Irish independent film directed by Justin Kerrigan that explores English clubbing and drug culture from the perspective of a group of friends over a weekend in Cardiff, {{UsefulNotes/Wales}}.
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!!Contains examples of:
* ArtisticTitle: The opening credits of the film intercuts simple title cards for the cast and crew with footage of the 1994 anti-Criminal Justice and Public Order Act protest and riots.
* BavarianFireDrill: The gang arrive at the club, the Asylum, but are unfortunately one ticket short. So Jip bullshits his way into the club by meeting with the owner, Pablo Hassan, and pretending to be a Mixmag journalist wanting to write an article on the club. [[RefugeInAudacity And it works.]]
* BingeMontage: The film has at least one of these.
* CastTheExpert:
** When Jip picks up Koop in his car, the radio DJ is played by real-life English radio DJ Pete Tong, who is also the film's musical advisor.
** Stand-up comedian Jo Brand has a cameo as "Reality", who has a conversation with Moff about his drug problem. In real life, Brand was once a psychiatric nurse.
* DescendedCreator:
** Director Justin Kerrigan plays a minor character named "Ziggy Marlon". He first appears in the record shop scene, asking Koop "Any new jungle in, guy?".
* RelationshipUpgrade: Jip and Lulu have sex (which helps Jip get over his sexual hangups) and have begun a romantic relationship at the end of the film.
* TakeThisJobAndShoveIt: Nina quits her job because she's tired of being sexually harassed by her manager (who is portrayed to be both figuratively ''and literally'' greasy).
* VisualPun: When Lulu and her friend are talking with a couple of obnoxious fellow students, who have just returned from a trip to Amsterdam, the camera occasionally cuts to the two men replaced with two literal bare arses.
* YourCheatingHeart: Early in the film, Lulu dumps her current boyfriend because he cheated on her, and it's revealed that the same thing happened with her previous two boyfriend.
[[caption-width-right:270:The weekend has landed.]]
Human Traffic is a 1999 British-Irish independent film directed by Justin Kerrigan that explores English clubbing and drug culture from the perspective of a group of friends over a weekend in Cardiff, {{UsefulNotes/Wales}}.
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!!Contains examples of:
* ArtisticTitle: The opening credits of the film intercuts simple title cards for the cast and crew with footage of the 1994 anti-Criminal Justice and Public Order Act protest and riots.
* BavarianFireDrill: The gang arrive at the club, the Asylum, but are unfortunately one ticket short. So Jip bullshits his way into the club by meeting with the owner, Pablo Hassan, and pretending to be a Mixmag journalist wanting to write an article on the club. [[RefugeInAudacity And it works.]]
* BingeMontage: The film has at least one of these.
* CastTheExpert:
** When Jip picks up Koop in his car, the radio DJ is played by real-life English radio DJ Pete Tong, who is also the film's musical advisor.
** Stand-up comedian Jo Brand has a cameo as "Reality", who has a conversation with Moff about his drug problem. In real life, Brand was once a psychiatric nurse.
* DescendedCreator:
** Director Justin Kerrigan plays a minor character named "Ziggy Marlon". He first appears in the record shop scene, asking Koop "Any new jungle in, guy?".
* RelationshipUpgrade: Jip and Lulu have sex (which helps Jip get over his sexual hangups) and have begun a romantic relationship at the end of the film.
* TakeThisJobAndShoveIt: Nina quits her job because she's tired of being sexually harassed by her manager (who is portrayed to be both figuratively ''and literally'' greasy).
* VisualPun: When Lulu and her friend are talking with a couple of obnoxious fellow students, who have just returned from a trip to Amsterdam, the camera occasionally cuts to the two men replaced with two literal bare arses.
* YourCheatingHeart: Early in the film, Lulu dumps her current boyfriend because he cheated on her, and it's revealed that the same thing happened with her previous two boyfriend.
