amazing: Volensky: I love you. I love you.
Anna: Why? why?
Volensky: There is no why in love. cannot ask why, about love.
Three sentences, only eight words in total, vividly describe all women and all men, and the difference between love between men and women. It is profound, exquisite, condensed, and sharp. , It is breathtaking.
But after watching the whole film tonight, although I gave a four-star overall (most of the British media only gave Samsung, for a reason), the second half of the film is really disappointing. The screenwriter Tom stoppard is one of my favorite contemporary British playwrights, but the screenwriter of this film makes me feel that he seems a little bit powerless, maybe because he is old after all, 75 years old, maybe because of the director. problem. In general, the beginning of the movie is wonderful, and it seems like a feast; the middle part begins to be flat after Volensky's horse fall, and at the end, it becomes a superfluous and complete failure.
Of the three protagonists, only Jude Law’s performance was the most exciting, and he actually turned a villain into a positive character worthy of sympathy. And this movie completely subverted his always handsome image, showing his superb acting skills, the stylist even deliberately used baldness and beard to cover up his handsome appearance, ha ha.
The heroine Kayla was so bad that all the scenes were designed for her from beginning to end. As a result, she couldn't show even the most basic emotional changes in the characters. I only saw Anna panting for breath throughout the movie, as if she had tuberculosis. . You can go to see Greta Garbo's interpretation of Anna in the 1935 black-and-white film. That is the real grace and noble lady. Her whole body is shining with charming brilliance from head to toe. In contrast, , The Kayla version of Anna is simply a hairy girl who can’t be put on the stage, even like an aristocratic maid. When the master discovers the adultery, she trembles all over her body, she can’t even tear her eyes, she just breathes hard. Gasp, gasp again. .
Among all the female characters, the most exciting is Miss Mary. There are only three lines in total and she is so eye-catching, and her acting skills are absolutely top-notch. Especially when she helped Anna and Volensky cover when Karenin arrived, there was only one line in total, and she was the center of the entire movie screen! Even the protagonist Anna is completely invisible. If she was asked to play Anna in this play, it would be perfect.
As for Volensky, I don't know if it is because of the script or the actor's acting skills. The character image of the male protagonist in the whole movie is the palest, thin, and almost impossible to establish. He gives the impression of a handsome young man in the whole movie. He can't even talk about a playboy or an elegant lover, because he almost doesn't move at all, except to say that I love you, or I love you. He only does one thing in the whole movie, which is to say I love you.
However, these performance problems are not the most important. The most fatal problem of the whole movie lies in the intention of the second half: Tolstoy’s criticized Karenin has been incredibly portrayed as the lover of Anna. A holy messenger of Christ Jesus who represents true love (even Anna herself said in the play, my husband, what a nice, kind man he is!). Oh my God! ! I definitely don’t believe that such a mentally retarded adaptation was done by the screenwriter. Don’t say that Tom is one of the best master screenwriters in the history of contemporary British drama. Modifying Lao Tuo's original work, even any screenwriter with literary common sense will not do this, only the director can dare to do it. So the whole film was destroyed, and Anna died inexplicably.
The film is not over yet, but Joe Wright is over.
Well, the movie is over. In the last shot of the film, the director clearly demonstrated his view of love and life that he believed to be "correct": Karenin, who represents happiness and correct true love, "forgave" his cheating wife Anna and After his love rival Volensky, he gained inner peace, and sat peacefully and happily on the grass full of heavenly holy flowers, watching his son and lover’s daughter play and embrace in the flowers together, This is so happy.
At this point, we can affirm without any suspense: Director Joe White not only completely failed to read Tolstoy's "Anna Karenina", but also completely failed to read or even completely distorted and tampered with the poor drama master Tom. *The original script of Stoppa's "Anna Karenina". Do you still remember the touching dialogue and lines in the scene where Anna and Volensky met again and made their love?
Anna (panicly): No, no, I am married, I have a husband and children. . I shouldn't see you again. No...No...I am married, I have husband and child...I shouldn't see you again.
Volensky: It makes no difference. it doesn't make any difference.
Anna (still struggling): But this is wrong. but this is wrong...
Volensky: It makes no difference. it doesn't make any difference.
——Oh yes, this is truly, love.
Thanks Tolstoy, Thanks Stoppard.
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