Top 10 Human Traffic scenes

In terms of films about clubbing and off-their-face ravers, there really isn't anything like Human Traffic. A baby-faced John Simm and pre-Football Factory Danny Dyer shine as part of a Cardiff-based crew dedicated to class As, booze, dancefloors and chatting shit. Matthew Herbert contributed towards the soundtrack, on which Pete Tong supervised, and Carl Cox even makes a cameo as a shit-scary club owner. What more could a raver want from a movie?

17 years on from its release, news surfaced yesterday that director Justin Kerrigan is working on a sequel, with Mr Dyer hinting on Twitter that he'd be returning as the hilarious, Star Wars-obsessed Moff. It's only right we round up the best scenes from the film in celebration of the follow-up.

Film introductions don't get much better than the narrator, in this case John Simm's Jip, telling the watcher that he's struggling to get it up. Once he's done sounding bitter about his friend Mr Floppy, we get to know the "craftsman" Koop, Nina the "absolute mistress", "full-on club minx" Lulu and the nutty Moff, "the biggest pill monster" Jip knows. Once the character intros are out of the way, we're treated to loads of archive rave footage, the perfect warm-up for one of the best clubland films ever made.

Koop. What a guy. A vinyl purist, the cocky record shop worker sure knows how to flog a pristine piece of wax. "Trust me, it's going to be banned," he confidently tells a hip hop head to ensure a swift sale. Next he's turned the shop floor into a jungle frenzy with a tune that "could turn Hare Krishna into a badboy". Oh, all those 'Junglist Movement' tees that got sold in the late 90s/early 00s? Koop's probably the reason.

Ah, the awkward-as-fuck conversation with someone that A) you don't really like and B) you couldn't care less about what they have to say. We've all been there: going through the usual "hey, haven't seen you in ages?" and "so, how's work going?", but all we really want to do is bypass them completely and pretend we never saw the guy or girl we never really liked at school. It always ends with a haphazard goodbye as well, demonstrated perfectly by Jip and Felix here. If only we could get away with saying "die" instead of "bye", eh.

The late Howard Marks definitely deserves a mention here. The Welshman became somewhat of a cult hero in the UK after years of smuggling cannabis and eventually hanging around with some solid cons in one of the most secure prisons in the United States. This cameo appearance followed that stint behind bars, seeing the man discuss something he sure knew a lot about: spliffs. No matter how hard you try, it'll always be the spliff holder's girl that gets the golden toke.

How many times have you sat in a taxi, off your rocker, and bombarded the driver with a slew of absolute nonsense? Countless times, no doubt. It's not rare for the man or woman behind the wheel just to nod and say 'yes' rather than engage into full-on conversation, as Moff learns on his solo ride home. He bangs on about Travis Bickle from Taxi Driver so much, it wouldn't be so shocking for the driver to lose his shit and go fully Robert De Niro on the chirpy cockney.

Every film needs a love story, right? There's not too many big screen romances that come together at 5.01am, though, especially after a night fueled by chemicals. That's no doubt the biggest reason each character was so unsure whether to make the first move. "Please kiss me," Lulu says to herself, before Jip self-admits he doesn't "know whether I'm reading this wrongly because I'm off my tits." Still, they both take the plunge and lock lips to the euphoric sound of 'Age Of Love'.

Staff impersonating robots and the disgusting, lech of a boss: just two things that perfectly sum up the dead-end job. Nina decides she's had enough of her boss' sweat dripping on her shoulder, proudly announcing "fuck this" and swapping the sickly stench of popcorn for sitting on her arse and some "hardcore Richard and Judy" on This Morning. Any excuse to bring out the bubbly.

"Hang on, what the fuck was I just saying?" are the words Jip speaks after this pilled-up speech. For two-and-a-half minutes, he describes how they're all feeling after dropping an E, the blurry camera panning across each character in a sense of trance-soundtracked, MDMA bliss.

Having been made to up sticks and move from London to Cardiff, it's no surprise Dyer's Moff views his parents with such disdain. The fact he's a small-time dealer (his dad's a high-ranking policeman) is proof enough that he really couldn't give a shit what they think. This is where he really flips, made to sit at the dinner table with his mum, dad and grandma while wrestling a severe comedown. "Another kid dead from taking ecstasy this week," quips his dad, sending poor old Moff's mind into meltdown. Cue switching off his nan with a remote control and ripping into his "perfect family".

This scene's such a classic that you can go to a house party and still hear a group of lads showing their appreciation with the words "nice one bruvva". Even people who are completely unaware of its origin have probably used the certified geezer phrase at some point. The best thing about it? Moff's sat on a toilet, tinnie in hand, for the entire time. And Jip's over and out "fuck off", of course.

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