Skip to content
The Catholic Leader
  • Home
  • News
    • QLD
    • Australia
    • Regional
    • Education
    • World
    • Vatican
  • Features
  • Opinion
  • Life
    • Family
    • Relationships
    • Faith
  • Culture
  • People
  • Subscribe
  • Jobs
  • Contribute
No Result
View All Result
  • Home
  • News
    • QLD
    • Australia
    • Regional
    • Education
    • World
    • Vatican
  • Features
  • Opinion
  • Life
    • Family
    • Relationships
    • Faith
  • Culture
  • People
  • Subscribe
  • Jobs
  • Contribute
No Result
View All Result
The Catholic Leader
No Result
View All Result
Home Culture

LAYER CAKE – Criminals with class consciousness

byStaff writers
21 August 2005
Reading Time: 2 mins read
AA
Share on FacebookShare on Twitter

Starring: Daniel Craig, Tom Hardy and Sienna Miller
Director: Matthew Vaughn
Rated: MA15+

MATTHEW Vaughn was the producer of the tongue-in-cheek gangster films, Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and Snatch.

The anticipation was that Layer Cake would be a similar knockabout gangster actioner with some razzle-dazzle stylistic touches.

No, on all counts.

Rather, it is a smooth and well crafted production with a script that has its satiric moments but is ultimately a rather serious show.

Daniel Craig immediately introduces us to himself. He is the self-made drug dealer, a man about town, who is ambitious for the fine things of life, has a cover as an estate agent, the completely modern amoral man who has made his pile and is about to leave the business prosperously.

He seems to be offering the handbook for the successful, respectable criminal. And we tend to believe him.

But, life is not like that, especially among British gangsters. The crime world is a layer cake and you had better remember which layer you belong to.

There are the local bosses, nouveau riche types who bring their working class manners and violence to their new place in society. Kenneth Cranham is expert at playing this kind of role and is very persuasive here.

There are the lower class idiots who presume that they belong to higher levels, do deals, act precipitately and violently, get everyone entangled in their mess and are quickly dead. Jamie Foreman portrays one of these.

Related Stories

Nuncio take in the sights of Queensland’s far north

Cardinal Joseph Zen appears in court in Hong Kong on day of prayer for China

15 killed in Texas school shooting

Then there are the local equivalents of the consigliore who are in the background, do a quiet killing or two, act as brokers in drug deals and who live in unobtrusive comfort. Colm Meaney portrays one of these.

At the top are the successfully ruthless who outwit everyone else, no matter layer they come from, and survive. And this is Michael Gambon.

Put it all together, plus some emotional complications which play havoc with plans, and you have Layer Cake.

ShareTweet
Previous Post

MILLIONS – Calling on the saints

Next Post

Australia get ready

Staff writers

Related Posts

Nuncio take in the sights of Queensland’s far north
News

Nuncio take in the sights of Queensland’s far north

25 May 2022
Hong Kong
World

Cardinal Joseph Zen appears in court in Hong Kong on day of prayer for China

25 May 2022
15 killed in Texas school shooting
News

15 killed in Texas school shooting

25 May 2022
Next Post

Australia get ready

Excitement spreading

Big brother protest

Popular News

  • 15 killed in Texas school shooting

    15 killed in Texas school shooting

    0 shares
    Share 0 Tweet 0
  • Archbishop calls for prayers in “troubled times”

    0 shares
    Share 0 Tweet 0
  • US bishops applaud San Francisco prelates pastoral response to Pelosi’s decades of abortion advocacy

    0 shares
    Share 0 Tweet 0
  • Nuncio take in the sights of Queensland’s far north

    0 shares
    Share 0 Tweet 0
  • From a humble start Albanese is sworn in as new prime minister

    0 shares
    Share 0 Tweet 0
Search our job finder
No Result
View All Result

Latest News

Nuncio take in the sights of Queensland’s far north
News

Nuncio take in the sights of Queensland’s far north

by Staff writers
25 May 2022
0

Pope Francis’ delegate to Australia has found time for sightseeing during a busy trip to Far North...

Hong Kong

Cardinal Joseph Zen appears in court in Hong Kong on day of prayer for China

25 May 2022
15 killed in Texas school shooting

15 killed in Texas school shooting

25 May 2022
Archbishop calls for prayers in “troubled times”

Archbishop calls for prayers in “troubled times”

24 May 2022
Myanmar military burns houses, destroys a village

US bishops applaud San Francisco prelates pastoral response to Pelosi’s decades of abortion advocacy

24 May 2022

Never miss a story. Sign up to the Weekly Round-Up
eNewsletter now to receive headlines directly in your email.

Sign up to eNews
  • About
  • Advertise
  • Contact
  • Contribute
  • Jobs
  • Subscribe

The Catholic Leader is an Australian award-winning Catholic newspaper that has been published by the Archdiocese of Brisbane since 1929. Our journalism seeks to provide a full, accurate and balanced Catholic perspective of local, national and international news while upholding the dignity of the human person.

Copyright © All Rights Reserved The Catholic Leader
Accessibility Information | Privacy Policy | Archdiocese of Brisbane

The Catholic Leader acknowledges Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people as the First Peoples of this country and especially acknowledge the traditional owners on whose lands we live and work throughout the Catholic Archdiocese of Brisbane.

No Result
View All Result
  • Home
  • News
    • QLD
    • Australia
    • Regional
    • Education
    • World
    • Vatican
  • Features
  • Opinion
  • Life
    • Family
    • Relationships
    • Faith
  • Culture
  • People
  • Subscribe
  • Jobs
  • Contribute

Copyright © All Rights Reserved The Catholic Leader

0
    0
    Your Cart
    Your cart is emptyChoose another Subscription
    Continue Shopping