Three flatmates offer a room to a dangerous thief who has ran off with a pair of gangsters' loot. When they find this guy(whose name is Hugo, claiming to be a writer)dead from, I'm guessing, overdose, they chop up his body and bury it so they can share the money.
Juliet(Kerry Fox)is a doctor whose uses her feminine whiles to pit "chartered accountant" David(Christopher Eccleston)& newspaper reporter Alex(Ewan McGregor)against each other as greed becomes a seducing emotion overwhelming all three. When Alex and Juliet go on a mild spending spree, David goes berserk, hiding the remainder of the cash up in the attic and hermits himself up there drilling holes in the ceiling so he can watch the other two intently. Soon, the gangsters find their flat, but David has completely turned a bit wacko awaiting them to enter his lair. What will ultimately push these three into complete turmoil is when the police start fishing.
The film gets really grim as David never quite recovers from chopping up and burying Hugo's body(he lost a "drawing of straws"). We see three people plotting against each other until certain violence erupts as paranoia and corruption come to the surface. We see right from the very beginning as these three are interviewing possible candidates for their flat how crude and rude they can be. It doesn't surprise that these supposed friends could harm each other over A LOT of mullah.
I say that if you don't like dark, dark comedies where people turn on each other or change twistingly into a different person then stay away. It's visually exciting thanks to Boyles' impressive camera-work and the writing is a psychologically nasty piece of work. One question that did poke around in my brain was why they just didn't divide the loot amongst themselves and remove any form of angst or aggression.
Juliet(Kerry Fox)is a doctor whose uses her feminine whiles to pit "chartered accountant" David(Christopher Eccleston)& newspaper reporter Alex(Ewan McGregor)against each other as greed becomes a seducing emotion overwhelming all three. When Alex and Juliet go on a mild spending spree, David goes berserk, hiding the remainder of the cash up in the attic and hermits himself up there drilling holes in the ceiling so he can watch the other two intently. Soon, the gangsters find their flat, but David has completely turned a bit wacko awaiting them to enter his lair. What will ultimately push these three into complete turmoil is when the police start fishing.
The film gets really grim as David never quite recovers from chopping up and burying Hugo's body(he lost a "drawing of straws"). We see three people plotting against each other until certain violence erupts as paranoia and corruption come to the surface. We see right from the very beginning as these three are interviewing possible candidates for their flat how crude and rude they can be. It doesn't surprise that these supposed friends could harm each other over A LOT of mullah.
I say that if you don't like dark, dark comedies where people turn on each other or change twistingly into a different person then stay away. It's visually exciting thanks to Boyles' impressive camera-work and the writing is a psychologically nasty piece of work. One question that did poke around in my brain was why they just didn't divide the loot amongst themselves and remove any form of angst or aggression.