FREE ON CINEGEEK.DE Danny Boyle - Shallow Grave


Today, it is not only one of the most original black comedies, but also the initial spark of British cinema in the 90s. By Danny Boyle, who also did Trainspotting. Have fun with our "Corona Cinema"!

FREE ON YOUTUBE  What is actually the most unworthy murder in British film history? A truly undignified murder must always be committed by a bourgeois murderer. ...a doctor or a teacher. The murderer must live in a semi-detached house, completely unremarkable. But then the neighbors hear strange noises. What neighbor would ever suspect that the nice gentleman next door is murdering? Not out of passion, but out of convenience. Like covering up an adultery. They often kill with poison. The problem remains now how to dispose of the body that bothers him? In a bathtub full of acid or chopped up in the backyard? The respectable working neighbor hangs out with body parts outside the door during a full moon. In Danny Boyle's Shallow Grave, the victim kills himself with drugs before the nasty roommates get a taste of it. The roommates are disgusting yuppies. A doctor, an accountant and a journalist from Glasgow. They take great pleasure in humiliating and mocking those who apply for the room in their flat share. Only Hugo (Keith Allen) manages to impress them and moves in. Hugo is as repulsive as Juliet (Kerry Fox), the doctor, for instance. Hugo moves in and is found dead the following morning with an overdose. Dressed up as if he was applying for the perfect murder. The nasty roommates react angrily - until they discover a full suitcase with money. Does anyone even know that Hugo moved in with them? Exactly. Nobody knows. They decide to dump the body and keep the money. They follow all the steps outlined earlier. The head is cut off the body, then the bones. No one is to be able to identify the deceased. The severed parts are cremated, the rest buried. But Alex (Ewan McGregor) and David (Christopher Eccleston) don't want to get their hands dirty by cutting off a head. Let the doctor do it. After all, killing is part of their profession, they think. Cutting up a dead person is not easy. We learn this by having director Danny Boyle backlight the scene. The nasty roommates get paranoid about what they did and David, the accountant, moves into the attic. He drills holes from above to monitor everything underneath. Entering the attic is not advisable... Everything that makes for a very unworthy murder is there and has even been adapted to the taste of the time (drugs instead of acid). Shallow Grave can be celebrated as the start of the new wave of British cinema in the 90s. Yet Danny Boyle's cult film does not make it easy for us, because we hate every single protagonist. All the roommates of Shallow Grave WG are obnoxious - and yet we have to fear being discovered with these assholes. Performance of the police inspector (Ken Stott). He stands in the tradition of the investigators, who mumble down their questions seemingly unfocused, all the while. Before such investigators leave, they turn around again and repeat the seemingly unimportant question. The inspector is the only likeable character in the whole movie. Paradoxically, we still side with Alex & Co. As mean as it is, we unfortunately take the perspective of the obnoxious roommates and sincerely hope that their dissected corpse never shows up...