Let’s leave it up to Mr. Ritchie himself to describe the films apparent social commentary.

“The social commentary is everything that I’ve been talking about. The social commentary is how the face of England, and I suppose in turn England no longer has the identity that we previously understood it had. It’s become international like New York has become international. So the commentary is how, I suppose, identities shifted, cultural identities have shifted. I mean, if you take New York and London now they’re so much more similar than they used to be. It’s a commentary on that. It’s a commentary on how crime has shifted. It’s a commentary on how business is conducted. Previously people could offer, lets take the example of, a million pounds for a house and then an oligarch would come along and would say, ‘Look, just to take it off the market and save any haggling I’ll offer you twenty million.’ That wasn’t necessarily uncommon. It suddenly became, ‘It’s going for a million.’ ‘Well, I’ll offer two million, three million –’ and then you go, ‘Ah, fuck it. Look, here’s twenty million.’ Now they did that with football teams. They did that with football players. They did it with every sort of cultural manifestation that we had. It’s that these exponential bids would suddenly come into the occasion. That had a tremendous cultural effect on the way that everything was manifest. So we’ve tried to reflect some of that within the movie too.”

Is it wrong that I find that very, very funny?

And that I find the trailer really funny too? I think it has been too long since Ritchie actually made us remember why the hell we ever gave a damn about his work in the first place (”Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels”) but as predictable and familiar as the trailer is, could it mark the return of Ritchie as we once knew him? Will “RocknRolla” be a return to his former, vintage glory or just another failed attempt? Can this man ever come up with something unique and non-familiar? Is his marriage to Madonna really over? Is he a robot? Does my head hurt after watching that trailer? I can only answer that last question. And even that’s only a maybe. Dang.