Their dream is not to change the class, but to become a substitute for a higher class.
Two Smoking Guns is a crime comedy film written and directed by Guy Ritchie and starring Jason Fleming, Dexter Fletcher, Jason Statham, and Nick Moran. The film was released in the United Kingdom on 28 August 1998.
The film tells the story of Ed and his friends who participate in the underworld gambling game but owe a huge amount of money, planning to rob a group of drug dealers, who rob the drug supplier on the same day, accidents occur frequently, and finally turn into a completely unpredictable farce.
In 1995, Gehrig directed and filmed his first feature-length work, Two Total Smoking Guns, which won him the Best Director Award at the 11th Tokyo International Film Festival, which defined the "black" style for him, after which Gehrig's works did not jump out of this category, but continued to explore the stylistic performance of this genre with the blessing of black humor and violent elements.
"Two Big Smoking Guns" is a work that has been passed down in the name of a classic to this day, and the film is superior in external expression and internal narrative structure.
The first thing to mention is the external form of expression of the film "Two Big Smoking Guns", that is, the visual style that the audience captures for the first time, there is no doubt that this is a black comedy, but at the same time it can be called a gangster film with a certain light comedy nature.
There has always been no shortage of these gangster youth groups in the British land, and "drugs", "usury", these negative products of wandering in the gray area have been deliberately proposed, and have become a witness to show small people wandering at the bottom of society and in the gray corners.
And the final success of these protagonists in the film actually alludes to a point, that is, the victory of the grassroots, they are forced to live in a non-benign living environment, and can only obtain success in self-perception through the evil deeds such as "violence" and "fraud" given to them by the environment.
Since the first Industrial Revolution, industrial symbols and the spirit of resistance have actually been deeply rooted in the marrow of the British people, and in general, from a political point of view, the Labour Party, the second largest party in the British Parliament, was established in London on February 27, 1900, and was initially called the "Labour Representative Committee", and after a period of development, it was renamed the Labour Party in 1906.
Although in the present, the Labour Party is gradually alienated from the trade unions and has become more and more closely related to the middle class, at the beginning of its establishment, it undoubtedly represented the relevant interests of the working masses.
In general, that is, the daily life of ordinary residents, we start from the football culture of the United Kingdom, we can look at the fan culture brought by the two industrial cities of Liverpool and Manchester United, and the reason why football matches attract the majority of workers' fans is nothing more than to get spiritual entertainment after tiring work.
It is precisely for this reason that the team representing the workers and grassroots culture has won the support of the majority of workers fans, and has become a cluster of some individual extreme fan culture, while chelsea, which represents the rich area of London, has been tepid until the Russian rich have gradually entered the Premier League big6.
Although these factors may seem unrelated to Two Smoking Guns, they are cognate, and grassroots culture has its own channels of propaganda in Britain from the beginning, on the other hand, the widening gap between rich and poor in capitalist society, and the hippie culture of the 1960s and 1970s, are one of the factors that fuel the waves.
So we can actually quote the characteristics of hippies to outline the spiritual core of the black appearance of "Two Big Smoking Guns": to reflect their opposition to nationalism and elite classes in the early form of the commune and the poor lifestyle of wandering or the bottom, who advocate non-traditional religious cultures and criticize the values of the middle class in Western countries.
Secondly, is the internal narrative structure of the film "Two Big Smoking Guns", that is, the well-known multi-line narrative or circular structure, the plot of the film will no longer be repeated, we can know from the process of enjoying the film that the overall narrative tone of the film is multi-linear, each story unfolds at the same time, fuse each other, and finally collides at the "climax", with a violent, high-speed narrative style to further increase the excitement of this collision, and finally package the film as the creator of hormones.
We can understand this as a manifestation of lamenting the impermanence of fate and the possible prediction of life, and it can also be understood that this is to further increase the absurdity of the film, but it should be noted that these settings exist to increase the sense of reality, put the inner thoughts and actual actions of the characters on the table, and create a reasonable space for the next collision.
Therefore, the movie "Two Big Smoking Guns" can be called "absurd reality", when the absurdity and reality are integrated, the impact it brings is extremely huge, the bright and beautiful surface of society is easily torn apart, and the absurdity contained in it, the fact that there is no survival logic without wealth and status has been exposed.
"Two Big Smoking Guns" is also known as a classic for these two main reasons, and the most extensive grassroots class will never end the dream of counterattacking and gaining wealth and eventually gaining social status, but when in a capitalist society, the essence of this dream is undoubtedly the greatest irony.
They went through the gray areas of society, gained the final wealth through acts despised by orthodox society (the difficulty of expressing the class jump), obtained the primary conditions for the class jump, and in the process pulled down the "middle class" and eventually replaced them.
From the warrior who slaughtered the dragon, to the new dragon, behind them, there are countless new "hippies" and "grassroots", who go forward and follow, and finally, in the greatest irony of presenting social groupness, complete their "dreams". Born of irony, finally irony, irony to the extreme.