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Traffic Safety Film of the Week

The latest from the U.K.’s Think! campaign, a bit in the “j-horror,” ghostly revisitation school of traffic safety film making (sans the girls with long black hair).

As an aside, given that there’s some tooth-brushing here, have you ever noticed how 99% of feature films feature a shot of dental hygiene? I sometimes wonder if it’s some great conspiracy by the ADA, or if it’s just a quick and cheap way to show “humdrum domesticity.” Start making a census of this and you’ll be surprised (when you’re finished with that game, you can move on to regurgitation; I mean, it really is shocking how many films feature people throwing up).

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One Response to “Traffic Safety Film of the Week”

  1. 2fs Says:
    April 27th, 2009 at 8:07 pm

    Unrelated to the main issue here, but re the tangential “things in movies & TV shows” game: all shots of police stations will feature a prostitute being processed in the background.

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How We Drive is the companion blog to Tom Vanderbilt’s New York Times bestselling book, Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What It Says About Us), published by Alfred A. Knopf in the U.S. and Canada, Penguin in the U.K, and in languages other than English by a number of other fine publishers worldwide.

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