Heavy Traffic
A white dropout struggles to become a cartoonist and filmmaker, drawing inspiration from the harsh, gritty world around him. He continues sharing a rundown apartment with his middle-aged parents—a boorish, slob of a father and a scatterbrained mother—and finds himself scorned by friends: hypocritical peers entangled with violent gangs and the Mafia, and a shallow downtown woman whose livelihood revolves around pimps and pushers. When a film idea lands on the table for a pitch to a movie mogul, the story proves too outrageous: a far-future Earth scarred by war and pollution, where a mutant antihero confronts and kills God.
Director(s)
Ralph Bakshi
