Guest blogger: Abdi MO1

A few months back, my brother convinced me to watch the movie Snatch; directed in a hyper realistic fashion by Guy Ritchie –Madonna’s Husband-. I actually ended up watching two more times because I couldn’t believe for one how fast the story took a turn, and second the way the characters behaved. Snatch, is a movie about a really HUGE diamond that gets stolen by Frankie four fingers –a thief that has a gambling addiction- and he brings it to London. As soon as he arrives the news of the massive diamond circulates through the worlds of bookies, bare-knuckle boxers, near immortal Russian’s, and Pikey’s. “Is that a Pikey campsite? I hate Pikeys.” (Tommy) The movie is an extraordinary wed of events that at first glance seem loosely connected through psychotic and often quite violent characters that inhabit that world. After the diamond is brought to London, the unknown forces that run London start to clash behind closed doors in order to gain control of the said diamond. Boris the bullet dodger, and ex-KGB operative who as legend would have it couldn’t die, and Brick Top; “you’ll owe him for life,” and Turkish –the unofficial main character of this movie. And last but certainly not least; Bullet- Tooth Tony – he can supposedly be shot and it wouldn’t harm him This bang-bang comedic thriller is played to perfection by an All-Star Cast starting: Jason Statham –Turkish-, Brad Pitt –the Pikey that somehow ends up having to fight for Turkish and Tommy, albeit and how they wanted. Benicio Del Toro plays Frankie Four Fingers, and rounding out the cast are Dennis Farina, and Vinnie Jones. That list actors may or may not be have been the final piece of information you needed to go to your Netflix account and watch this movie this instant, if you don’t have Netflix… well this isn’t for you now is it? I really don’t wanna have to tell you anything because for all the memorable moments in the movie, it is really short lived. You may be groaning about how dumb it’s gonna be but somewhere along the road of; Man eating pigs, silly fat bastards, the true meaning of “Proper xxx,” and why you should never mess with Pikey’s…you may actually catch yourself enjoying what deserves to be an amazing film.