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Heavy Traffic
1973 · Film · 77 min
Directed by Ralph Bakshi
A white dropout struggles to become a cartoonist and filmmaker, drawing inspiration from the harsh, gritty world around him. Still sharing his rundown apartment with his middle-aged parents, an oafish slob of an Italian father and a ditzy nutcase of a Jewish mother, he's ridiculed and looked down upon by his friends, hypocrites who run with violent gangs and the Italian Mafia, and a shallow Black girl who makes her living downtown with the pimps and pushers. The cartoonist gets a chance to pitch a film idea to a movie mogul, but the story proves too outrageous: a far-future Earth, depleted by war and pollution, where a mutant antihero challenges and kills God.
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Add to that Ralph Bakshi's film Heavy Traffic (1973) — a pinball table is something of a metaphor in the film for the fortunes and misfortunes of life. (That was a couple years before the John McPhee's article — must have been the Zeitgeist.)