Continuity mistake: When Anna handles the diary of Tatiana over to Nikolai at the fast food restaurant, Nikolai's right hand does not have the big tattoo.
Eastern Promises (2007)
Ending / spoiler
Directed by: David Cronenberg
Starring: Naomi Watts, Viggo Mortensen, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Aleksandar Mikic, Josef Altin, Mina E. Mina, Sarah-Jeanne Labrosse
Nikolai (Viggo Mortensen) is a FSB mole in the Russian mob and plans to replace Semyon (Kirill's father) as head of the family. At the hospital, he tells Anna (Naomi Watts) that her uncle is in Scotland. Anna and Nikolai stop Kirill (Vincent Cassel) before he kills the baby; Kirill wanted to kill her because when the police compare the baby's DNA with Semyon's DNA that will prove that Semyon raped Tatiana (the baby's mother) and he'll go to jail. Nikolai says good-bye to Anna and she adopts the baby. The final scene implies that Nikolai is now in charge of the family.
Alex
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Suggested correction: I don't think I can confirm this mistake. The hand that takes the diary in close-up is the left one, and when he uses the right hand, the tattoo is there. It's a faded tat to begin with, so if the streaming quality when you watched it was not optimal, it may be a detail easy to miss or that blurs out with compression noise. But it is there.
Nikolai Luzhin: Sometimes, if things are closed, you just, open them up.
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