Sunday, June 30, 2013
THE RUSSIANS ARE COMING
Today's movie was David Cronenberg's
with Vigo Mortensen, Naomi Watts and Vincent Cassel. Great actors all.
This is a seriously violent film with a beautiful beating heart at the center.
Mortensen got a nomination for this one and is the moral center although he is, apparently, a Russian thug in the Russian equivalent of the Mafia. He is the "protégé of Cassell who is the son of the London branch of the family. Also a homosexual who has a crush on Vigo.
Watts comes into it as a nurse who saves a baby when the mother dies in childbirth. She also finds a diary on the mom's body.
From there we take off into a series of interwoven connections and, to be frank, some coincidences you don't want to scrutinize too closely. It doesn't matter.
This film has one of the most upsetting fight scenes I have ever seen and there are a lot in my history. Enough said.
I have seen this before, it is a 5, and I forgot the intensity of a lot of scenes and the way that they play out.
The editing is superb. The acting is clear and direct. The London shown here is the dirty side posing as the respectable side. A teen prostitute ring is involved.
Mortensen has never been better and his partnership with Cassel brings two favorite stars together.
It is still a 5. I will see it again.
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