British black humor

Rating: 8/10 (24 April 2020)

In a sense, the British sense of humor is very much like the weather in London, cold and damp, always a little obscure. It has been said that the British have a dry sense of humour, not because they do not laugh at their jokes, but because they love telling serious ones. As a result, the British have a bit of a rigid temperament and their sense of humor is always a little bit bashful, seems to be unable to break away from that bit of the so-called traditional reserved.
Guy Ritchie is a master of dark humor, and he's a bit of an outlier among British directors. His films are similar to quentin's in that they both have a strong sense of control over character cues and a dark sense of humor with exaggerated dialogue and plots and a bit of violence. It's a sense of humor that won't make you laugh, but will last forever.
The film opens with two seated men, Turk and his sidekick, jumping before they can say more, followed by a scene of a robbery by a group of outlandishly dressed men with fake beards. The comical poses themselves are full of humor, the clothes are full of guns and make people laugh, and the editing technique of the monitor shows the superb skill and creativity of the director.
The film then introduces all the characters one by one. On the one hand, it can be said that it is an explanation of the characters to the audience. On the other hand, it is like a show off by the director.
Indeed, the characters appear one by one, and always one leads up to the other. Although the film is always in a somewhat chaotic rhythm, the characters switch quickly, it will feel confused at first, because the audience needs time to figure out who is who, but the director is not confused at all, after watching the film, you will find that the director's thinking has been very careful and the story is always connected.
This is a story about diamonds. There are two main lines to the story.
First, the opening scene of the diamond thief four fingers frank took a giant diamond, he will take the diamond to New York to the boss ivy, but good gambling frank was scar Boris lured to the casino bet, Boris hired three gangsters to rob the casino and grab the diamond from frank's hands. Boris took the diamond and killed frank. Ivy couldn't wait for the diamond to fly from New York to London and hired Tony to help find the diamond. Although the diamond was finally found in the office of the gang, the diamond was a dog diao, random gun, ivy shot Tony.
On the other hand, the man named Turkey in the opening scene needs to find someone to fight in an underground boxing match, while the original fighter is beaten by gypsy mickey when he goes to buy a gypsy station wagon. Turkey can only ask mickey to do it for them, but mickey fails to fall in the fourth round as agreed to let local gang leader topp win money and nearly dies. Top discovered mickey's strength and asked him to play again. Mickey again failed to fall in the fourth round, but ivy was finally known by mickey's gypsy brothers.
The two main lines come together at the end. Turkey finds the dog that swallowed the diamond in the camp after the gypsies leave, and then goes back to the beginning of the film, where the man sitting opposite Turkey and tommy is ivy's man in London. Here the film comes to a screeched halt with the iconic quick cut of its third appearance. The audience is left with endless aftertaste.
A multi-threaded story is often a test of the director's skill. The film is a whole, and even if there are multiple threads, they must be combined together like DNA. The technique is not new. The characters are connected by chance encounters, and one pushes the other forward like dominoes, thus driving the story forward. And unlike pulp fiction story but leading role is a link between the change of tactics, the number of characters "snatch" more and there is no clear, primary and secondary story is complete, each group of meet the development of the plot fusion is very good, everyone is leading role, everyone have their own unique personality, so the audience can always see a group of crazy people performance and do not ignore any one.
Similarly, the director's excellent editing ability is also an important guarantee to master the multi-line story. Instead of a full-length editing game, the director USES only small clips to show his ability. There are four impressive:
One, lie in the echo of head tail. This technique is not uncommon, but this one is a little different, and the movie ends with a flashback to the opening scene that the audience still doesn't understand, until the old face of the diamond dealer appears and the film ends while the audience is still reminiscing.
Second, a pile-up of milk on the road. Take a look at each car and film what's happening to each of them. The director's editing is masterly, and this episode connects ivy's people to the mob, allowing the story to continue.
Third, ivy from the United States to the United Kingdom of rapid cutting. Closing the taxi door, taking the pills, Concorde, visa stamps, taxi lights on, it's pretty neat, pretty comic, and it sets the scene for the end of the movie.
Fourth, the dog chase rabbit and black fat taryn was hit cut together. On the one hand, it increases the comic effect of the film, on the other hand, it makes the film less bloody.
Guy is on the control have to surprise of the film, and at the same time, he doesn't focus on depicting a bloody scenes in the film, and in editing in dialogue with the actors in the story itself to represent black humor, therefore, even if the whole film is obscure dim, but what impress the audience is still the British cold black humor.