Film Review: Eastern Promises
Eastern Promises
Directed by David Cronenberg. Written by Stephen Knight.
Starring Viggo Mortensen, Naomi Watts, Vincent Cassel, and Armin Mueller-Stahl.
2007.
[NOTE: I don't want to give the feeling that I'm just burning old material without adding anything new (which I am), but I like the succinct minimalism of these notes. They say everything of real pertinence that I would have mentioned. I will just add one more thing: Eastern Promises functions as a piece of genre defamiliarization, as the gangster movie without a single gun. SPOILERS ahead]
Initial dissatisfaction of reveal that Viggo had been working undercover
but with ambiguous look on his face in the ending
a real companion piece with A History of Violence
the duality of man... both good and bad sides
who is he at the end?
but reversed from A History of Violence
Directed by David Cronenberg. Written by Stephen Knight.
Starring Viggo Mortensen, Naomi Watts, Vincent Cassel, and Armin Mueller-Stahl.
2007.
[NOTE: I don't want to give the feeling that I'm just burning old material without adding anything new (which I am), but I like the succinct minimalism of these notes. They say everything of real pertinence that I would have mentioned. I will just add one more thing: Eastern Promises functions as a piece of genre defamiliarization, as the gangster movie without a single gun. SPOILERS ahead]
Initial dissatisfaction of reveal that Viggo had been working undercover
but with ambiguous look on his face in the ending
a real companion piece with A History of Violence
the duality of man... both good and bad sides
who is he at the end?
but reversed from A History of Violence
Labels: david cronenberg, defamiliarization, film review, genre, viggo mortensen
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