Polonaise

Polonaise (2002) is one of the better Dutch tv movies of recent years. (IMDB link) It is set in the near future, when traffic jams are so standard that there’s this entire economy built around it. There’s traffic jam radio, a traffic jam dating service, traffic jam hairdressers, etcetera. Hold that thought.

This morning it started to snow and by 10 AM there was quite a nice layer of crispy white snow. It’s even worse back home, I just read about there being 60 traffic jams with a total length of 800 km. (Side-note: the French call 800 km of traffic jams in France ‘black Thursday’, but do consider the relative size of France and the Netherlands and decide who should not complain...)

So I switched on the Dutch radio, and they had sent several reporters to drive into the traffic jams and report on their progress.

That made me think of the movie. And laugh.