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Subject: Eastern Promises Mon 1 Oct - 0:29
Eastern Promises is an excellent movie. By far the best of 2007 (so far). Viggo Mortensen, Vincent Cassel, Armin-Mueller Stahl, Naomi Watts and the rest of the cast are excellent in this. I can't say there are any real faults in this film but it is very dark and violent and that is expected. It's based around the Vory V Zakone "Thieves in law" which is essentially the Russian mob. There is a lot of graphic gory realistic violence in this so don't expect stylized Matrix style fighting. This is not for the weak of stomach.
Spoiler:
There is a scene when Viggo's character Nikolai has sex with a prostitute. It is obvious that neither he or she wanted to do it but his friend Kirill (Vincent) forced him to do it to prove he wasn't queer though it is obvious that Kirill is gay since he insists he watches it. However, Nikolai eventually frees the prostitute from slavery.
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Subject: Re: Eastern Promises Sun 14 Oct - 20:38
I don't think I will see it. I can't really handle that sort of graphic violence. If it's like Sci-Fi violence... fine. But this seems a bit too realistic.
Still... Viggo!!! I heard that he learned Russian for this movie. And was hanging around in the part of Russia that he character was supposed to be from, in order to get the correct accent. Not exactly a safe part of the country, either.
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Subject: Eastern Promises 
Mon 1 Oct - 0:29
I can't really handle that sort of graphic violence. 
If it's like Sci-Fi violence... fine. 
But this seems a bit too realistic. 
I heard that he learned Russian for this movie. 
And was hanging around in the part of Russia that he character was supposed to be from, in order to get the correct accent. 
Not exactly a safe part of the country, either. 
