HUMAN TRAFFIC
****
Starring John Simm, Lorraine Pilkington. Written and directed by Justin Kerrigan.
BY JASON ANDERSON
The first thing you should know is that Justin Kerrigan's Human Traffic is the only feature to authentically capture the euphoria and camaraderie of British rave culture. Finally, the raving is no mere background for a crap youth film or crime thriller, but the whole point of the exercise. And Human Traffic has the right tunes (house, techno and drum 'n' bass tracks, plus classics by Primal Scream and Orbital), the right chemicals (ecstasy, pot, coke and lager) and the right feel, from the time Jip (John Simm) and his friends in Cardiff, Wales, come up on Friday night to when they land softly on Sunday afternoon.
It hardly matters that Human Traffic doesn't have much of a plot. "There's very little story," agrees Kerrigan while in town recently. "There's only …