deep-rooted violence

Devyn 2022-01-25 08:07:20

I still don't understand why it is more appropriate to translate it as "Murder of the Giant Tower", or "The Promise of the East" or "The Far East Contract". Writing here, I found that the last two translated names are worrying at the box office in the vulgar Chinese film circle.

Having watched several of the director's plays, I feel that the style is strong and alternative, and it hits people's hearts very bluntly. Unfortunately, my heart is a bit soft and not hard when it comes to all video products. Wasn't impressed.

This movie is similar. The sudden throat cut at the beginning of the chapter is extremely frightening and makes people sick. Later, the throat cutter urinated on the tombstone in the sunny cemetery, and was solved in the same way, and the neck was cut by a sharp blade. , blood oozing out until the close-up of the surging, I do not feel the pleasure of retribution at all.

One of the protagonists fights with two black-clothed killers in the bathroom, but it is extremely brilliant. The state of reality and life and death, as well as the rhythm of life and death turning, is thrilling... In my movie viewing history, I have left a classic scene. This scene is also bloody, but the difference between it and the Chinese movie is deliberately rendered, and the design of Fu Hui is thoughtful.

Others are mediocre, of course, it also deserves the praise it already has. The paradox here, I can only say, doesn't quite fit my taste.

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Extended Reading
  • Ludwig 2022-04-21 09:01:36

    Why undercover again?

  • Guy 2022-04-22 07:01:05

    The man who does not meet his eyes at first glance, the more he looks at it, the more he finds it tasteful.

Eastern Promises quotes

  • [first lines]

    Azim: He says "Christmas." So I say to him,

    [in Russian]

    Azim: "Should we go shopping?"

    [English]

    Azim: The kid's 16. He says, "But uncle, it's Christmas."

  • [last lines]

    Tatiana's Voice: My name is Tatiana. My father died in the mines in my village, so he was already buried when he died. We were all buried there. Buried under the soil of Russia. That is why I left, to find a better life.