Life Is A Layer Cake (Don’t Stop Until You Can Breathe)

In the movie Layer Cake, London’s drug lord played by Michael Gambon before he was Dumbledore, explains to the Young Turk, played by a pre-James Bond Daniel Craig, the facts of life. The scene alone is worth the price of admission, it’s stuck with me after seeing the movie more than half a decade ago.

It’s something a lot of people don’t see. They just accept what they’re told. They’ve never been able to breathe that rarefied air, if they even realize it’s possible at all…