Eastern Promises

The director we chose to do is David Cronenberg who has a unique style of trying to put you as close to the film as possible. He does this in Eastern Promises a movie based on a russian mafia family in London by using many close up shots on faces and shots from characters perspectives when they are talking to other character. (As shown on the right)

From the opening of the film to the end we see him use this trick when two characters are interacting he will switch from a close up shot on the face of one to a close up shot of the others face. This engages us more in the film and makes it much more entertaining to view. This film was a very dark film purposly because I believe he wanted to set and overtone on the mood since the story was not a happy one. Whenever we saw shots of the russian mafia during dinner or meetings it was never a close up shot. He wanted to give us a third person perspective whenever something bad was happening or being plotted. I believe he did this to give us two perspectives on the good and bad characters in this film. By using close ups as two characters talk it engaged us more in what was being said, but when the russians talked we were never that close to give us a divider of the two sides in this movie. (As shown on right)

Using this unique style it gives the movie a more interesting feel and perspective. Throughout the duration of the movie this difference is even more obvious. Without this style the films story would have not been enough to make a good movie, but because it uses so many tricks it sets itself apart from other films.