Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels – review by Elise

Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels

– Black Humor of British Film

It is very hard for me to imagine that this is the director’s debut.

‘Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels’ is not a Hollywood blockbuster which is always flooded with sexy, heroism or saving the world. Full of British features can be found not only through the British accents but also the typical black humor. The plot is excellent and enjoyable because it just likes the domino which there one thing leads to another.

When I saw the film, the first 8 minutes I felt confused. There were only a group of people who appeared and said something then followed by another group of people. It seems like illogical and confusing. However when the plot developed to the scene that one of the main characters called Eddy was enjoying the high-stake card game with the loan shark, and not long ago, this loan shark just asked two thieves to steal two guns. The story became clearer for me and I can detect that there are some links among these two things and the film title.

Eddy were playing high-stake card game

Two thieves just broken into a house

Moreover what is really make a deep impression on me is the last scene when the three guys saw the price of two guns (around 500000pound) and another guy was just throwing them away in the river. 

They were looking at the price of gun and shocked~

He was tying to throwing away the guns~it is an open-ending

In addition, the next topic which I am going to talk about is the characters in this film. They are all special and with difference sense of black humor. Firstly, I would like to tell about the female characters. There are only four of them and most of them are insignificant: one is a show girl in sexy club; one old lady was robbed by the thieves; one is a female DILA and the most interesting one is a female drug addict who is the marijuana grower's girlfriend. She always dizzy ans sleepy and the only time she waking up was just before she died. What she have done is really surprising, she swooping down to a machine gun and there is only one person died.

Secondly, the movie is mainly man-oriented. Besides the four young man in the film, there are many interesting male characters can be find out like: a fat guy called ‘Nick in Greek’ who was involved in the case bafflingly; a gang boss who also sale porn products; two stupid thieves who came from Northern; a pair of father and son who liked to ‘solve problems for others’ and etc. What they have done in this film is absolutely remarkable.

Furthermore, another signature achievement of this movie is it score. Differnet music and songs appear along with the development of the plots. This make a higher-standard audio-visual enjoyment for the audience.

I just liast some of them which I written down:

'Hundred Mile High City' -> open  scenes

'The Boss' -> the father and his son turn up

'Police And Thieves' -> marijuana growers and the 'snow white' show up

'Liar, Liar' -> when they play card game and the gang boss was cheating

'Wanna Be Your Dog' -> after Eddy lose the game will be settled by the debate(50000 pound)

'Why Did You Do It' -> Eddy was explaining what had happened to his friends

'The Payback' -> they get back their money from the gang boss

These are all perfectly fit the plots and the lyrics seems like seamless.

Last but not least, this film is full of black humor, especially in the lines. I find one of the amusing lines is said by the drug dealer Rory:

Your stupidity might be your one saving grace. 
Don't uuh to me Greek boy!...
Is this some white cunts' joke that black cunts don't get?...
If you hold back anything I'll kill you!
If you bend the truth or I think your're bending the truth I'll kill you! 
If you forget anything I'll kill you!...
Now do you understand everything I've said? Because if you don't know I will kill you!!!

It is funny because this a guy is a bit neurotic, he got a glass table but no glass on the top. And many thing he has done can really me laugh. 

What's more, let take a look how do these call each others.

hatchet man of Harry

Two thieves

This movie not only make you enjoy the British black humor but also get something to learn. Because every time the father and his son show up, the father always asked him to fasten his safe belt.

Put your seat belt on!!!

To sum up, this is movie with amazing plots, stylishly shot, cool music and only talk about two guns + four women + several groups of men.

stylishly shot