Eastern Promises is a movie directed by David Cronenberg that focuses on the Russian mob.
It’s about a girl who walks into a pharmacy with track marks all up her arms, then collapses in a pool of blood on the floor. The girl ends up dying in childbirth, but a neonatal hospital nurse Anna (her father was Russian), helps deliver her daughter.
The fate of the baby is explored through a fascinating plot.
Just a good story!
Warning: it’s quite gruesome in places and the nudity is quite bothersome–and yet somehow apropros given that it’s a mob movie.
On another note, I was asked to be guest blogger at Kathy Temean’s blog. Kathy is an SCBWI rep from New Jersey whom I met in L.A. at the SCBWI convention.
You can read my guest blog post here: http://kathytemean.wordpress.com/2011/09/22/writing-muslim/
Sorry for the typos in advance! (I realized afterwards that my italics didn’t come through in titles!) I wrote it late last night.
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2 Responses
Patricia Tilton
22|Sep|2011 1Rukhsana,
Haven’t heard about “Easteern Promises” — sounds like a good story.
Read your guest blog on Kathy Temean’s blog and really liked your thoughtful advice and comments to muslim writers — but what you said really applies to any writer. I love multicultural books, and would love to write them, but just don’t feel I’m qualified. I would think you would need to spend a great deal of time with a particular culture. We adopted a 12-year-old boy from India in 1985, and his story is worthy of telling. But, I’m not sure I would feel comfortable telling it, even though I know more than the average individual.
Thank you for such so much insight.
Pat
Rukhsana Khan
22|Sep|2011 2Hi Pat,
Actually that guest blog post was culled from the workshop I did on writing about other cultures.
Hmm. Maybe fodder for another blog post.
Okay. I’ll write it one day, where I summarize the workshop I gave.
Glad you liked the post so much!
All the best,
Rukhsana