“So you've
read the diary. How can you keep doing what you're doing?”
“I'm
just a driver.”
A young pregnant girl is brought into the hospital where
Anna Ivanova (Naomi Watts) is a doctor. Unfortunately the girl dies but her
baby daughter lives. Anna finds the girl’s diary among her few possessions she
had on her. The girl’s name was Tatiana and she was fourteen years old. Tatiana’s
body looks horrible with bruises and track marks and marks of neglect all over
her. Anna is determined to find the girl’s family. The diary is written in
Russian. At first Anna goes to her Russian uncle but he is hesitant to
translate it. Anna found a card for a Russian restaurant in the diary so she
takes it there and asks the owner if he knew the girl and if he could translate
it for her.
The restaurant owner Semyon is not a nice man. He part of
a dangerous Russian mafia in London. His son Kirill runs around town doing
whatever he pleases drinking all day and going to prostitutes. Kirill is driven
around by another Russian named Nikolai (Viggo Mortensen). Nikolai acts as
Kirill’s bodyguard as well making sure nothing bad happens to him and that he
is kept out of serious trouble. Nikolai sees Anna come out of the restaurant
and talks to her about the motorcycle she rides.
Anna’s uncle eventually translates the diary and tells
his niece that Tatiana had been in a bad situation and had been raped. She had
been raped by Semyon who then, along with his son, repeatedly shot her up with
heroine. Semyon has also read the diary. He orders Nikolai to take care of the
uncle.
There is more to the story but I do not want to give too
much away.
Eastern Promises
was alright. My two youngest brothers love the movie. The youngest one is fifteen
and he was watching the movie with one of his friends. I was heading downstairs
to my dad’s office to work on some papers and I heard a voice that was very
familiar. The Russian voiceover belonged to Tatiana Maslany. I knew she was
attached to Eastern Promises. I
thought she was actually in the movie but she was just a voiceover with a different
girl playing the character of Tatiana at the beginning. It was cool to hear her
voice especially because one of the characters she plays on Orphan Black is Ukrainian which to my
ear sounds very close to Russian. I thought the story would be more interesting
than it was and that there would be a little more action. There was one scene
where Viggo Mortensen fights naked in a bathhouse and that was the only action
scene. To me Eastern Promises was
dull. I cannot see why my brothers love it so much and they have seen movies
that are lot better than this story wise.
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