'Snabba cash' is a very renowned film, depicting the 'underworld' of Stockholm and how easy one can make money and how easy one can loose them, not least when dealing with persons with a 'spacious conscience'.
Johan JW Westlund - Joel Kinnaman - is a young student at The Stockholm School of Economics who for different reasons (mostly money aiming at giving him prestige among his rich fellow students in their very superficial world), becomes involved in the commerce of drugs.
Not at all unlikely as the moral among economists and economist students (or law students) seldom reach any higher levels.
At first he tries to live a double life, studying during day time and doing business with drug barons abroad the rest of the time.
After having read the book 'Swedish Maffia', I (Gunnar) recognize many of the milieus and the different gangs portrayed in this film.
I haven't read the book written by Jens Lapidus wherefore I don't know if he uses material from the above book or if it's the other way around or maybe a 'cross-fertilization'.
Lapidus 'regular job' is not writing but working as a lawyer, wherefore he probably used some material from the experience of - at a daily basis - meeting different clients within the 'criminal sector' in Sweden.
On the same time one wonder if the experiences of Johan Westlund stems from Lapidus own personal experiences as a law student.
The film is made in, or an attempt to be made in, an 'americanized' way - this in relation to a more Swedish tradition when it comes to thrillers - with rapid action and a straight forward story but it never becomes a nail-biter or even thrilling.
This might be due to the poor acting or dito directing, I don't know.
Joel Kinnaman won the 'Swedish Oscar' - Guldbaggen - for best male leading role, something in our opinion rather surprising as his acting in a stereotypical way.
Let's see how the American version turns out.
Johan JW Westlund - Joel Kinnaman - is a young student at The Stockholm School of Economics who for different reasons (mostly money aiming at giving him prestige among his rich fellow students in their very superficial world), becomes involved in the commerce of drugs.
Not at all unlikely as the moral among economists and economist students (or law students) seldom reach any higher levels.
At first he tries to live a double life, studying during day time and doing business with drug barons abroad the rest of the time.
After having read the book 'Swedish Maffia', I (Gunnar) recognize many of the milieus and the different gangs portrayed in this film.
I haven't read the book written by Jens Lapidus wherefore I don't know if he uses material from the above book or if it's the other way around or maybe a 'cross-fertilization'.
Lapidus 'regular job' is not writing but working as a lawyer, wherefore he probably used some material from the experience of - at a daily basis - meeting different clients within the 'criminal sector' in Sweden.
On the same time one wonder if the experiences of Johan Westlund stems from Lapidus own personal experiences as a law student.
The film is made in, or an attempt to be made in, an 'americanized' way - this in relation to a more Swedish tradition when it comes to thrillers - with rapid action and a straight forward story but it never becomes a nail-biter or even thrilling.
This might be due to the poor acting or dito directing, I don't know.
Joel Kinnaman won the 'Swedish Oscar' - Guldbaggen - for best male leading role, something in our opinion rather surprising as his acting in a stereotypical way.
Let's see how the American version turns out.
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