Cyborgs a go-go (1/20/01)
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Snatch. [Guy Ritchie, 2001.]
Mr. Madonna follows the very amusing
Lock, Stock, And Two Smoking Barrels with another attempt to translate Tarantino into British: this, an extended caper movie in which a boatload of colorful lowlifes [Benicio del Toro is only first among equals] chase a diamond around London. I might attempt a summary of the plot, but it was far too confusing, and, anyway, this is really a film about accents: note in particular Brad Pitt’s portrayal of an absolutely incomprehensible Gypsy boxer. — Indeed, if there were a moral, it would be, Never trust a Gypsy. Or a Gypsy’s dog, for that matter.
____________Georgia on my mind (1/19/01)
