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eastern promises is one of those movies where the symbolism was goddamn perfection - i could go on and on abt:

• usage of red as the main thematic driving point - of the direction where true power was and will trickle towards.  red in the blood when the baby was born (red stained on the dead mother’s clothes and her diary, passed from hand to hand) hinting at the eventual justice they had, red awash at the party in the monster’s den - and lastly, red on nikolai’s tie for the power that he inherits. (and for the blood and deeds that stains his hands.)
• blue and yellow also play into it, less obviously - blue mostly as a safe haven, yellow as the utter opposite.  Blue at the hospital where safety and kindness was, where anna was (consistent during the whole movie); blue on nikolai’s shirt so we still connect with him as the protagonist despite what he does.  you could even say blue as the sweetness of death where the vor’s long arm could not reach you. [kiril’s dead friend in the icebox - remember how blue that scene was?]
• amusingly, the two scenes with hairblowers (nikolai warming up the corpse / anna using the hairblower as it was fucking intended to, aka drying hair ) was ‘supposedly’ an accident of symbolism/parallels - yea sure.
• if this movie was abt anything else other than power, i will eat a fucking cactus.   #this movie was all about power plays [#between the son/father/interloper] #earned power [nikolai] versus given [semeyon] versus born with [kiril] #and how that power can and will rot you from the inside out
  • this movie in no uncertain terms said power will turn you into a monster.  as much as nikolai was the protagonist - he was a monster by the end of the movie, too tainted by the others to truly be apart of them. 
  • and you know who stood firm in all of the horror and resisted this? 
  • anna.  it was her deeds that started and fucking finished the justice for the dead, not nikolai.  he was her tool, if anything.
  •  (whups that was a tangent)
• this entire fucking scene