Radix malorum est cupiditas - the love of money is the root of all evil. Alledgedly. But I was rooting for the villagers, I must say. perhaps it was the struggle against big corporations like the lotto who fleece the statistically-challenged and do their best not to pay out? (Just a thought, not necessarily my view.)
I was disturbed by the vehement anti-drug message in "Traffic". Not the dealers-bad-police-good message, but the one where everyone ODs or becomes addicted to heroin after smoking a joint. But then, any kind of didactic fim annoys me.