Anything To Declare?

“Yeah, don’t go to London.”

I would like to declare that this is a wonderful film, and should be enjoyed to it’s fullest, but because of its fast pace, most reviews have said that the plot is just too hard to follow because of Guy Ritchie’s “Stream-of-consciousness directing techniques”(Craddock 867), it would help viewers understand the interweaving plot if it is broken down, one must be aware of the story in the story, within the story…

First we start with Frankie Four Fingers stealing an 86- carat diamond. Then he calls in a diamond dealer, Cousin Avi, to sell him the diamond.

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Borris The Blade is hired to steal the diamond from Frankie,

introducing the story of Sol, Vince, and Tyrone.

Borris hires Vince and Sol to rob a “four fingered man with a briefcase at a bookies.”

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Sol and Vince bring Bricktop into their life by robbing his bookie.

Tyrone is able to kidnap Frankie and the three of them steal the diamond from him, but Borris takes the diamond from them. When Bricktop confronts them for robbing his Bookies, they promise him the diamond, and spend the rest of the film finding the diamond and losing it again to Tony and Cousin Avi.

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The other story is about Turkish and Tommy. All Turkish wants to do is buy a Car-a-Van from the gypsies, this introduces them to Mickey, a bare-knuckle boxer, who agrees to fight for them through Bricktop’s underground boxing ring.

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But instead of taking the dives in the fixed fight like he’s supposed to, Mickey continues to knock out his opponents unleashing Bricktop’s fury onto the three of them.

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Cousin Avi contacts his cousin, Doug the Head in London and comes down to find Frankie after Frankie never checks back in with him. The cousin’s hire Bullet Tooth Tony to help them find Frankie or the diamond. This takes them around town, through Bricktop’s boxing ring, and into Sols and Vincent’s way battling with them and Borris for the diamond.

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Going into the film with the knowledge of these intertwining stories that come together in a circular plot through twists of fate with a giant 86-carat diamond as the central motif, fill in with little quips of British humor, such as Bricktop not taking sugar in his tea because he is “sweet enough”, and you’ve got one heck of a film, I hope this synopsis helps you follow along and enjoy Snatch.

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