Shifty - This is a film embodies the new Crime genre in Britain on a low budget film brilliantly as it is not attempting to be something it isn't. This film shows the transition of British Crime, particularly in the early 2000s as this is when this culture started to become more mainstream as seen with any culture once it starts to be mirrored in film.
Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels - A Guy Ritchie directed film shows the Geezer archetypal characters which the British are more well known for. This film focuses on the cockney culture which is often portrayed in film, this was one of the first of this type to become a cult classic. This is the stage before Shifty demonstrating the another side to British urban crime which may be slowly dying out and losing relevance as the new culture among the youth in Britain is only recently becoming majorly popular in music and clothing, meaning possibly soon in film too.
Trance - This is a Danny Boyle directed film meaning it will have elements of British realism however this is very different from other British Crime as it takes on an almost spiritual storyline mixed with violence and a hazy mood. This is the opposite to Shift and Lock Stock where grittiness and the urban mise en scene is vital, most of Trance takes place in a home. This demonstrates the more experimental side of British Crime suggesting audiences do enjoy a complete change in style to common urban crime no matter which form of British culture it comes from.
These 3 films are the ones I will be focusing on during my research into the Transition of British Crime as I believe they show a variety of types of film, each different and with their own cultural influences.
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