British crime comedy about class hatred Unexpectedly good British crime comedy/drama a bit Guy Ritchie-style, entirely devoted to the theme of class revenge.
Danny, an ordinary working-class guy, decides to raid a rich house, but not to rob anything, but simply punish its owners - the family of a banker who got away with the crisis of 2008. Danny assembles a team, and together they break into a house that amazes their imagination: seven toilets, a swimming pool, a fountain in the yard, classical music plays in the background.
The head of the family expresses undisguised hatred for the children of the lower class, and his smug statements that he himself earned all this and deserved wealth only fuel hatred even more. The boys tie the father, mother and daughter, and offer the banker a game of roulette, putting his wife’s life on the line. Everything that happens is recorded on a video camera, with the mandatory reading of the manifesto on the demands of social justice. No one is going to kill them, just scare them and teach them a life lesson. Things don’t go according to plan when Danny’s accomplices are seduced by the rich’s expensive possessions and begin to pursue their personal, more mundane and less global goals.
All the dialogues in the film one way or another on the topic of politics, a lot of subtle moments and successful jokes. For example, one of the chapters of the film is called “Sweeping”, in which water literally seeps through the floor to the next floor of the house, while the main character in despair asks: wasn’t it you who promised that goods would seep to us from top to bottom?
The film continues the line of class hatred in modern mass cinema, like Strippers, At Any Cost, and others. In general, it is gratifying that the theme of the 2008 crisis has not been forgotten and continues to serve as an occasion for an entire generation of Americans to demand equality and justice.
8 out of 10