Eastern Promise

Hollis 2022-04-20 09:01:27

To be honest, I feel that I didn't understand this film. The director should not just want to express what I saw. All I can see is a statement of a story. It would be too simplistic if it were just that.
The male protagonist is the one in the history of violence, and the woman is the one from 21 grams and Mulholland Avenue. The two do not have too many emotional scenes, but their fates are inadvertently linked together.
The streets of London always feel dark and damp, and in the rare sunny weather, the dirty business of the mafia is also carried out. This is how London is seen in the film. The whole film is filled with this uncomfortable feeling. The atmosphere is a bit frustrating, I don't like this movie very much, in general.

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Eastern Promises quotes

  • Anna: My uncle has gone missing, since I told you about him translating the diary.

    Nikolai Luzhin: Your uncle is fine, he is in Edinburgh, in a 5-Star Hotel. I was ordered to send him to Heaven with a bullet in his brain... instead I gave him a first class ticket to Scotland. He is old-school, he understands things... exile or death.

  • Kirill: [about Nikolai] He is no driver, he is the undertaker.