The film follows the lives of two young Dutch hustlers, Hugo and Goof, who inhabit Amsterdam's backstreets, getting stoned and preying on female backpackers for fun, thrills and self gratification.
The youths are 100% anti-heroes; their hustle is to seduce female tourists into bed and then steal their cash. However, the pair have a sick 'game' going on between them too - that is to rip-out a page from the girls' passports so to prove to one and other that they have made a sexual 'conquest'. A wall in the apartment they share is plastered with passport pages - without regard for the problems they cause to their unsuspecting 'victims' by depriving them of their official documentation.
The film is a fast moving black-comedy urban drama. It is very much in the style of "Trainspotting" and "Run Lola Run", accompanied by a heavy dance soundtrack and many moments in the film feel like a music-video, to very good effect. It is merry-go-round ride through a dangerous cityscape of naive fun-seekers preyed on by scumbags - but it somehow retains its comic edge, even though the storyline is dark, the activity not humorous nor admirable. This is because we see the story through the eyes of Goof and Hugo, and as such the movie works on this level - for had it been through the eyes of their 'victims' then it surely would have been a very different film.
As Hugo and Goof continue their deplorable 'game' and are in effect just a pair of low-life wasters dressed in trendy clothes, Lara, a Russian girl, comes in to their lives - and everything changes for them! Lara is equally as deviant and manipulative as both of them. Goof quickly falls in love with Lara and Hugo becomes jealous and fearful of the danger she poses to the dynamics of his best-friendship, partner-in-crime relationship with Goof.
As the boys relationship begins to crack, they begin to distrust each other - and Lara works out what their 'game' is and what their hustles are. She has hustles of her own and can navigate her way round the Amsterdam 'backpacker underworld' as easily as they can. A disastrous love-hate triangle then develops and reaches break-point consequences after Hugo rapes Lara - to 'prove' himself the dominant personality and take her as his own 'conquest' - and Lara then seeks vengeance on the pair climaxing in the story's edgy, fast paced finale.
The youths are 100% anti-heroes; their hustle is to seduce female tourists into bed and then steal their cash. However, the pair have a sick 'game' going on between them too - that is to rip-out a page from the girls' passports so to prove to one and other that they have made a sexual 'conquest'. A wall in the apartment they share is plastered with passport pages - without regard for the problems they cause to their unsuspecting 'victims' by depriving them of their official documentation.
The film is a fast moving black-comedy urban drama. It is very much in the style of "Trainspotting" and "Run Lola Run", accompanied by a heavy dance soundtrack and many moments in the film feel like a music-video, to very good effect. It is merry-go-round ride through a dangerous cityscape of naive fun-seekers preyed on by scumbags - but it somehow retains its comic edge, even though the storyline is dark, the activity not humorous nor admirable. This is because we see the story through the eyes of Goof and Hugo, and as such the movie works on this level - for had it been through the eyes of their 'victims' then it surely would have been a very different film.
As Hugo and Goof continue their deplorable 'game' and are in effect just a pair of low-life wasters dressed in trendy clothes, Lara, a Russian girl, comes in to their lives - and everything changes for them! Lara is equally as deviant and manipulative as both of them. Goof quickly falls in love with Lara and Hugo becomes jealous and fearful of the danger she poses to the dynamics of his best-friendship, partner-in-crime relationship with Goof.
As the boys relationship begins to crack, they begin to distrust each other - and Lara works out what their 'game' is and what their hustles are. She has hustles of her own and can navigate her way round the Amsterdam 'backpacker underworld' as easily as they can. A disastrous love-hate triangle then develops and reaches break-point consequences after Hugo rapes Lara - to 'prove' himself the dominant personality and take her as his own 'conquest' - and Lara then seeks vengeance on the pair climaxing in the story's edgy, fast paced finale.
