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Analyze and summarize the following news-like text snippet: 
Steven Soderbergh's great, despairing squall of a film, ''Traffic,'' may be the first Hollywood movie since Robert Altman's ''Nashville'' to infuse epic cinematic form with jittery new rhythms and a fresh, acid-washed palette.
The agitated pulse of the hand-held camerawork (by the director working under a pseudonym) that roughly elbows its way into the center of the action is perfectly suited to the film's hard-boiled subject, America's losing war on drugs. The color scheme sandwiches a few lush patches between sequences filmed in two hues -- an icy blue and a sun-baked yellow-orange -- that are as visually discordant as the forces doing battle.
Where Mr. Altman's masterpiece portrayed American culture as a jostling, twangy carnival of honky-tonk dreams, ''Traffic'' is a sprawling multicultural jazz symphony of clashing voices sounding variations of the same nagging discontent. The performances (in English and Spanish), by an ensemble from which not a false note issues, have the clarit...<|im_end|>
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The provided text appears to be a news article or similar content. A brief summary could be: Steven Soderbergh's great, despairing squall of a film, ''Traffic,'' may be the first Hollywood movie since Robert Altman's ''Nashville'' to infuse epic cinematic form with jittery new rhythms and a fresh, acid-washed palette.
The agitated pulse of the hand-held camerawork (by the director working under a pseudonym) that roughly elbows its way into the center of the action is perfectly suited to the film's hard-boiled subject, America's losing war on drugs. The color scheme sandwiches a few lush... (Further analysis would depend on the specific query.)<|im_end|>
