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*PREVIEW* Britainology 63: Layer Cake (2004)

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Comedy

4.6851 Ratings

🗓️ 25 June 2023

⏱️ 11 minutes

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For this month's first Britainology, we watched the 2004 UK gangster movie LAYER CAKE, featuring a much younger Daniel Craig, a very Essex'ed-up Sienna Miller, and a very unknown-at-the-time Tom Hardy. And it's a good movie! Which we enjoyed! And had a lot of fun talking about, especially as regards it being a snapshot of peak Blair years Britain. Get the whole episode on Patreon here! https://www.patreon.com/posts/britainology-63-85010160 *STREAM ALERT* Check out our Twitch stream, which airs 9-11 pm UK time every Monday and Thursday, at the following link: https://www.twitch.tv/trashfuturepodcast *WEB DESIGN ALERT* Tom Allen is a friend of the show (and the designer behind our website). If you need web design help, reach out to him here:  https://www.tomallen.media/ *MILO ALERT* Check out Milo’s upcoming live shows here: https://www.miloedwards.co.uk/live-shows and check out a recording of Milo’s special PINDOS available on YouTube here! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRI7uwTPJtg *ROME ALERT* Milo and Phoebe have teamed up with friend of the show Patrick Wyman to finally put their classical education to good use and discuss every episode of season 1 of Rome. You can download the 12 episode series from Bandcamp here (1st episode is free): https://romepodcast.bandcamp.com/album/rome-season-1 Trashfuture are: Riley (@raaleh), Milo (@Milo_Edwards), Hussein (@HKesvani), Nate (@inthesedeserts), and Alice (@AliceAvizandum)

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0:00.0

So this is definitely an early 2000s film.

0:02.2

There's a degree of like the way that it's shot, the way that it's edited primarily

0:06.6

that has a kind of like, I mean, it's not, what's the right word?

0:10.6

Like, it's not jarring.

0:12.8

It's not confusing.

0:15.6

But there's a stylistic choice of like the fading shots, the juxtaposing shots, like showing scenes that are

0:22.4

happening with other people while, like, for example, you're following Daniel Craig's

0:26.1

narration of his own life, and yet it's also kind of showing the counterpoint of like dumb

0:30.7

flash geese or idiot gangsters, et cetera. To me, like the shots with like their fucking on

0:37.2

without skipping ahead in the plot, like a scene kind of gliding into the next where like it focuses on an object and then that then immediately transitions to another scene with other characters, stuff like that.

0:48.3

To me, that's the only thing that made it seem really dated.

0:51.4

Other than that.

0:52.5

And of course, a version of London that's not falling apart, you know?

0:55.4

That's true.

0:56.0

And also...

0:57.6

Sort of 2004, probably, like, kind of you're getting to the point where it's, like,

1:01.6

high watermark of quality of life in Britain, maybe.

1:05.7

Like, it's that kind of era.

1:07.5

Well, much like Love Actually, you see them building, uh is it, 33 St. Mary Acts, the Gercin.

1:14.7

It's under construction in some of the like the setting shots that take place,

1:20.5

establishing shots of London. So maybe that implies that by building the Girkin, they incurred

1:26.1

God's wrath, that it was too erotic of a building,

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