La promessa dell'assassino

Exploring Humanity, Violence and All

IT is the kind of scene that comes to stand for the movie itself, like Travis Bickle's balletic slaughter in “Taxi Driver” or the rape sequence serenade in “A Clockwork Orange.”
Late in “Eastern Promises,” directed by David Cronenberg and in theaters now, is a four-minute, two-on-one gangster fight set in a Russian bathhouse in London. The tile quickly becomes slick with blood, curved carpet knives cleave flesh from bone, and yet, perversely, what's somehow more shocking is that the man under attack by two sweaty thugs in leather jackets is naked. [...]

di Katrina Onstad, articolo completo (9347 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The New York Times