{"id":211,"date":"2007-10-01T08:16:22","date_gmt":"2007-10-01T08:16:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alephnaught.wordpress.com\/?p=254"},"modified":"2007-10-01T08:16:22","modified_gmt":"2007-10-01T08:16:22","slug":"eastern-promises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/2007\/10\/01\/eastern-promises\/","title":{"rendered":"Eastern Promises"},"content":{"rendered":"
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We saw “Eastern Promises” Sunday morning.<\/p>\n

Eastern Promises<\/a> is David Cronenberg’s latest movie.\u00c2\u00a0 Its a bit of a departure for him.\u00c2\u00a0 The movie is set in London and involves the Russian Mafia.\u00c2\u00a0 A young woman is rushed to the hospital – she dies but gives birth to a baby girl.\u00c2\u00a0 The young doctor finds her diary tucked in a pocket and takes it.\u00c2\u00a0 From there the story builds to a dramatic and effective fight scene (warning – there’s male nudity here!) that’s all Cronenberg.<\/p>\n

The film is shot in a very harsh high-contrast style that fits nicely with the story (this too is a trademark, I think, of his films).\u00c2\u00a0 The rain (which is so common in London) also adds nicely to the depressing aspects of the story.<\/p>\n

Its a short film (running just over 1 1\/2 hours) but it was worth it I think.<\/p>\n

\"\"\"\\"Eastern<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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We saw “Eastern Promises” Sunday morning. Eastern Promises is David Cronenberg’s latest movie.\u00c2\u00a0 Its a bit of a departure for him.\u00c2\u00a0 The movie is set in London and involves the Russian Mafia.\u00c2\u00a0 A young woman is rushed to the hospital – she dies but gives birth to a baby girl.\u00c2\u00a0 The young doctor finds her […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[43,51,95],"class_list":["post-211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","tag-david-cronenberg","tag-eastern-promises","tag-movie"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2w3Qj-3p","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}