More cultural exposition than story in this very funny race relations', social class and state of the nation comedy. However, trying to pack too much in to its 93 minute running time, the film tends to skate over issues of personal identity and culture rather than fully explore them.
Nevertheless, the movie's depiction of a country sharply divided along racial lines is extremely accurate and very telling, as the turf wars within and between drug dealer gangs matches the racial and religious tensions between the various Asian communities and Whites. Yet, the cultures are also shown as unavoidably mixed.
The humor helps make the movie's more depressing content (junkie mums, pedophiles, alcoholism, etc) bearable; while enabling us to focus on that very content so we can understand it – and ourselves, as British - better.
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