I didn't intend to write a book review, because I felt that the book was so detailed that I needed to re-read it to understand it better. How and when all the thoughts and feelings in the book have changed, I just read it for the first time and didn't get it at all.
However, yesterday, because I re-watched the 2012 version of the movie "Anna Karenina", I felt uncomfortable. This morning I woke up feeling uncomfortable and my chest was congested. I wanted to take a look at the thoughts and opinions of netizens, but I found that there is no one who thinks the same as mine. (This is also the reason why I didn't want to write a comment after reading it for the first time, because I always felt that I didn't understand it and didn't understand it properly)
But now I can't help it and want to vomit. Even if my perception deviates from the original intention, I have to say it.
The thing is that I watched the 12th version of the movie last night and wanted to watch other versions of the movie, so I opened the 1997 version. At that time, because after watching the 12th edition, the rest time was not enough. So I only watched the first few minutes of the 97 version (well, I won't talk about the casting problem), and decided to jump through some of the scenes in the book to see how this version of the movie was made. It turned out that this jump was good - I saw a scene that terrified me:
In the picture, the hero and heroine (I don't want to call them Vronsky and Anna) are sitting face to face in a restaurant (it seems to be in a restaurant), and I was puzzled at the time: "Huh? He is still in the book. The plot of the two eating out? (Or the previous plot)" So I continued to watch it, but after the male protagonist glanced at the opposite female protagonist a few times, he stood up, walked towards the opposite female protagonist, and then—directly When the female protagonist's clothes are peeled off, the picture is extremely wretched, and the male protagonist's expression is also rather wretched.
When I saw this, I quickly pressed the pause button. Did not continue to watch.
I was startled. Who are these two? Is this "Anna Karenina"? Vronsky did not dare to do such a thing to Anna at all! He has never done such a rude thing to Anna! Anna also wouldn't like such a wretched person who would strip people's clothes just a few times.
I was very angry when I saw this clip, so I won't say more here. I also wrote my anger at the bottom of that video. What's surprising is that the score of this film is not low... I think the public now has an attitude of "as long as the old version is good! The new version is super bad!" I don't know where this attitude comes from, I didn't want to say it before. I'm too lazy to say it, but this time it really made me feel bad. (One more word: no matter how bad the old version is and how good the new version is in comparison, they will blow the old version to the sky and demote the new version to the ground.)
So, when I was in a bad mood and I encountered this resentment again, I tried to find comfort in the comment area of each version. However, as I said above, almost everyone agrees, but none of them agree with me... (I haven't read the long review yet, I'll look at it later)
The first thing I want to say is what I want to say most after watching such a big circle:
one. Abusive and misunderstood Vronsky - "Abandoned forever".
1. A lot of people are saying that this is a story about "lust is not love, and lust destroys people".
I'm sorry, I'm an emotional cleanliness person, and sometimes I can be a little arrogant. I have always been more violent than others when dealing with this kind of thing. (What's more, in many cases, people are praising the romance in a certain movie or a certain story, but I only think it is lust, and I don't see the shadow of love)
But this work, I'm going to say, I even think -- Anna and Vronsky, are true love.
First I have to question: where is the erotic part?
It's just a scene in the 12th version of the movie. There is only one sentence in the book. During this period, most of the descriptions are the two of them getting along and talking. (Not to mention what the 97 version played, it has absolutely nothing to do with the original)
I wanted to watch version 13, but I also saw someone in the comments saying that Vronsky would stalk and hug each other after a few meetings. Well...I don't know what these directors mean or if they have any prejudice against Vronsky, I even suspect they might just hate the character.
Let me cite Vronsky's attitude towards Anna in the book:
(1) When Vronsky met Anna at the train station, he went to Oblonsky's house uncontrollably and pretended to inquire about things (inquiries about the banquet, there was no need to make a special trip to ask about it), and saw "There was a look of shame and panic on his face" when Anna on the stairs saw him.
(2) Let's look at the second meeting again, at the dance, this time from Jidi's perspective. Yes, Vronsky used to be a swinger among the flowers, and this time he found Jidi, even though he felt that a "pure and lovely" girl like Jidi could bring him the "god of gods" that he did not have in the luxurious and debauched life before. The feeling of "refreshing", he felt that he "became pure" because of this... Is this feeling special enough for him? It's enough to guess that his attitude towards Jidi should not be the same as he used to treat girls, although he just "seduced girls because he didn't want to get married" - but, for such a "scumbag" as him, that's enough. Even so, in the eyes of a sufficiently "special" Jidi, when Vronsky was talking to Anna, this is how:
"Where's his steadfast demeanor and poised look? No, every time he speaks to her now, he bows his head a little, as if to kneel before her, but in his eyes he sees nothing but obedience. and apprehension."
"The expression on his face is something Jidi has never seen before."
Tolstoy's detailed description is really good, and I really felt the kind of affection that flows between them in the beginning of these chapters. Especially Vronsky, because at the beginning, Anna had been avoiding Vronsky.
2. The biggest attack on Vronsky - "beginning chaos and abandoning it".
As mentioned above, I suspect that the directors are prejudiced against Vronsky? I don't know, I'm biased against him anyway. And the prejudice is deep. Because I didn't read the book, I watched the movie a few years ago, so after watching it, I always remembered that it was Vronsky, a selfish person who provokes Anna and then abandoned her. So when I was reading, I always looked at him with contempt. So at the beginning, after Vronsky fell in love with Anna, he showed a series of emotions and behaviors that made me feel "innocent". I was a little surprised, but I thought it was fake, or self-consolation was a temporary novelty. So while I was a little surprised that he was really so careful with Anna, I thought in my mind: "Cut, see what's behind you".
So I read the end of the book with a prejudice against Vronsky.
Besides, in the 97 version of the movie (I guess other versions should be the same), when the two met for the first time, it seemed that Vronsky was immediately fascinated by Anna's noble and glamorous beauty (this version of Anna Personality has changed...). In this way, it is estimated that it will also bring people, "Oh, I'm interested in sex", and it will also bring people the feeling of "only lust" (this version only). I'm guessing that other versions might also make this mistake. So here is the description of the book again: Vronsky was not attracted by Anna's beauty or appearance at all - after all, he had seen too many beautiful and charming women.
See when he and Ana pass by:
"He suddenly felt compelled to take another look at her. It wasn't because of her beauty, or the charm and charm of her whole posture."
"Vronsky noticed a repressed anger on her face, passing from her bright eyes and smiling cherry lips..."
"She deliberately withdrew the brilliance in her eyes, but it was against her will, and it flickered again in her vague smile."
He is attracted by the energy and enthusiasm that Anna can't hide in her heart (I also think Anna is so attractive!!). Even in the 12th version, which I thought was a good shot, Vronsky was a little too bold with Anna, such as kissing hands on the train and looking directly at Anna; looking directly at Anna on the stairs. In the book, he did not dare to do any of this. In the long paragraph before, the words he used the most when he met Anna were probably words like "submission" or "frightened". Even by the end of the first book, he had been with Anna for a long time, and when he saw Anna's back, he still "looked at her fascinatedly".
Seeing that Anna was leaving Moscow for Petersburg the next day, Vronsky followed uncontrollably, and after seeing Anna with a "submissive and ecstatic" expression, Anna reprimanded him and refused. Afterwards, what he thought while sitting in the train "seeing nothing":
"The energy he was wasting and distracting from before is now focused on one point..."
"He discovered that the whole happiness of life, the only meaning of life, was seeing her and hearing her voice."
Of course, these are the previous pages, and they are still before Anna. So I still looked at Vronsky with contempt. Although I was still a little surprised at his love. Because in my prejudice against him, isn't he a cold-blooded person who plays with others?
"It's all just the so-called novelty, although it makes me look like 'really like it'. But it's because his fox tail hasn't been shown yet" - that's what I told myself at the time.
I won't say more after that. I have been watching the development of the relationship between the two of them in this way of "surprised by Vronsky's admiration, and then immediately denied him and despised him". I also wondered from time to time: "Is it about to show his true face here? Is it about to change?" But what I didn't expect was that I always held a contemptuous attitude until the end, I always wanted to see him show his true face, and then to the He uttered undisguised contempt - finally he could sneer openly - but I didn't expect that until the end, I didn't get what I wanted, and instead, because of this deep prejudice, his ending brought me a deep sense of stunned.
After reading the entire book and thinking about it carefully, I realized that Vronsky really wanted to be with Anna. Although there was a sentence like "feelings faded" in the middle, but this sentence immediately changed to "but I love her more now. I found that I didn't really love her before, but now I love her all" (main idea). And in my shock, he committed suicide for Anna. (attempted)
I didn't understand at the time, how could a fake man do this? There must be some other reason..."Maybe I didn't understand or didn't see it", I thought.
In the end, he and Anna finally escaped Petersburg and were "really" together: he wanted Anna to divorce and stay with him; he hoped and worked hard to legalize (marry) Anna's relationship with him; The daughter's surname is her own... this kind of thing. I didn't wait for his "change of heart".
I even thought a few times: "Why haven't you shown your true colors after all this time?"
I saw the ending with such a great prejudice against him, and I didn't see the "despicable feelings" I expected. On the contrary, his appearance in the end shocked and saddened me.
Let's talk about it in the "true love" below.
two. Anna's tragedy.
First of all, Anna is a very—very—very attractive woman. I felt her energy as soon as I saw her on the set, as Vronsky felt. She was warm, bold, and full of energy, and she was nothing like other women in high society.
While watching the movie (12th edition), I thought that her final suicide was because of social hostility and abandonment by Vronsky, and finally stepped into the railroad track in despair and calmness. In that case, although it is a tragedy in the literal sense, but for me, it is not so regrettable. Because I've always been very open about death. I think if you really despair of the world, and calmly want to die - for me, that's a "release". I thought it was a story where the whole "world" was bullying her. And everyone in this story is very hateful. (Don't count Karenin, I didn't think he was bad when I watched the movie)
I have long admired the great psychological description of Anna before her suicide. I also thought it was a rational complaint and calm talk of a desperate person before her death. But when I really saw it, I didn't expect that it was a long period of morbid thinking and disordered thinking. At that time, Anna was no longer sober, her mind was disordered and even a little crazy. After seeing this, I thought to myself: "Isn't it about to commit suicide here?!" Sure enough, she was here, jumping off in a state of extreme unease, pain, and confusion. up the rails. Even after she jumped off, she wanted to stand up after realizing it, and even read a chaotic monologue of "What am I doing?". But in the next second, she was crushed.
This ending was not what I thought, I never thought that Anna would be mentally disturbed. It never occurred to her that Anna committed suicide in such an extremely awake state. This...makes me very uncomfortable - that's the real tragedy for me. And I didn't read this book with the idea of seeing a tragedy. So it directly led to a vague feeling of discomfort buried in my heart after reading it - this discomfort never broke out, until after a while, I revisited the 12th version of the movie - until the end of Anna lying on the rails - that feeling did not break out. It burst out of my chest in an instant.
Lying on the track was not a rational decision she made in a sober and calm state. Dan Fan - Dan Fan at that time someone put his hand on her shoulder, sincerely said to her "Hey, what are you doing?" and then pulled her back. She will slowly come back to her senses and gradually wake up so that she will not go to the rails! (Although she may not wake up and think about death later, but that's a story later)
1. One of Anna's desperate situations - moral bondage and fatal guilt.
Thinking back slowly, in fact, Anna was already a little "confused" when she was giving birth. And her unnecessary jealousy appeared earlier than this, but it was not serious at that time.
Then let's push it forward -- and think about it --
In fact, after Vronsky appeared in front of her and she fell in love with him, her mental state had begun to show a tendency to decline: her dreamlike journey on the train to Petersburg was very "Psychedelic". She vaguely noticed her feelings for Vronsky, but she had to abandon him and leave. On the way home away from the city where Vronsky was located, she felt happy secretly when she recalled the scene with him, but she interrupted her thoughts from time to time and sheltered herself in a panic: "I'm okay? I have nothing to do with him..." Indeed, up to this point, she had been avoiding him, and she really had nothing to do with him. But she has already moved her heart, so: the pain of having to leave him, the tearing and struggling of self, the secret sweetness that tasted love for the first time, the moral sense and self-blame of persuading herself... All kinds of thoughts are entangled in her. In her mind, this journey home made her confused and exhausted. (I only felt "psychedelic" when I watched it, but I didn't understand what it meant)
Anna said repeatedly in the book, "What's wrong with me? I'm right!" At first, I agreed with it, but later I felt that she was a little bit indifferent to others: at least she hurt Karenin Yeah, and it's pretty ruthless.
But when I watched the movie yesterday, before she finally died, Anna cried out, "Forgive me! God!" I was stunned for a few seconds, thinking about her words, thinking that she had always thought she was "guilty" from beginning to end, That's why I have to shout this sentence in such pain until I die... Thinking of this, and looking at her corpse that has lost her expression, the mess that was stuck in my heart suddenly burst out, and I actually burst into tears. .
What's wrong with Anna? She did nothing wrong! I really think so now.
At a young age, maybe 18 years old, she was introduced and married to an old man who was nearly 20 years older than her. I used to think she was quite heartless towards Karenin. However, when I was young and didn't understand anything, I married an old man who was 20 years older than me because everyone said it was time to get married, and this man was so rigid and observant. He only saw the upper class in his eyes. If the rules stipulate that what is good, then he also thinks it is good; if it stipulates that what is bad, then he also thinks it is bad. He also reads books and has his own opinions: but he reads books because everyone has read those books, and he has opinions because everyone has his own opinions, and he said the clear-cut opinions, but they never flowed through his own mind. It all exists because "you must have a set of your own opinions" - his behavior is more like a machine than a rigid one (just today, when I flipped through the book at random, I saw that Anna also described Karenin like this) .
In short, he has no ideas of his own, only the officialdom and the so-called upper class in his mind. He never thought about or thought about his own life, he wouldn't even realize it, so he could live such a gray life with peace of mind and peace. But this is actually not his fault. He has been nurtured and grown up in this way since he was a child. He was immersed in such an environment. He has been in the officialdom for so many years, and he really needs to take care of his own face and "decent". In fact, this cannot be said to be his fault, it is the fault of the times. In other words, if a lifeless person like him lived with him, they should be considered "happy". Like the lady who finally came out to save him. (Karenin also suffered from official isolation, but the appearance of the lady saved him. Surprisingly, in Anna's story, none of them ended well.)
But Anna is different. As mentioned above, Anna is the kind of person who clearly wants to hide her exuberant vitality, but that vitality is still revealed in her eyes, in her mouth, and in her vigorous and light steps - a person full of vitality and extremely rich. Charismatic man.
And Anna, who is full of vigor and love for the world, spent nine years with a gray person like Karenin, and still gave birth to a child for him. Her world therefore followed Karenin into "rule-based" black and white or gray. Her life was so bright and colorful! But she has to stay with him in the gray world, and she even needs to suppress her vitality from time to time to be more "integrated" with that world. What a harsh and terrifying confinement it is.
Thinking about it this way, after staying in such a world for nine years, no one would hate Karenin very much. Although he is a good guy. But we don't say: "Oh, he's a good guy, you can stay with him." Or "He's a good guy, so you marry him." People who hear this now may have question marks on their faces, I want to ask "Are you okay?"
But in that era, in that society, it was such a fate that greeted Anna. At that time, she was still young and didn't understand anything, so she was pushed into marriage by society and the people around her. Since then, she has lost the color she should have. She never knew what "love" was, and never met "love". But in Moscow, she met Vronsky, and Vronsky met her.
When I read the book and read it, I thought many times that if Anna hadn't married yet, or Anna had met Vronsky before marriage, what a happy couple they would have been! Every time I think about it, the word "true love" pops up. But that was a passing thought, because at the time I still thought Vronsky was a "cold-blooded bastard", so I was always waiting for the next paragraph in this swaying thought, waiting for someone who could scold this guy. time.
2. Anna's desperate second - society, that is, public opinion - was abandoned by the world.
Why is Anna "crazy" so fast in the later period? Because she was abandoned by society. Completely abandoned.
Humans are social animals. If you are abandoned by everyone, it will be a horrible situation like hell.
But Anna still wanted to straighten her chest and hold up the sunshine in her heart: she has been constantly trying to find a way and hope that she can continue to live with sunshine. But she has repeatedly hit a wall: she can't socialize normally, she will be pointed at by others when she goes out, and even if she goes abroad, she has to avoid the people of her own country so as not to be recognized. When dealing with foreigners, she also concealed her relationship with Vronsky... These all made her mentally exhausted, and it was mentioned many times in the book that what she hated most was covering up and lying. In order to stop lying, she opened up about her relationship with Vronsky and followed him, but her life continued to cover and hide.
There is also the third desperate situation that Anna encountered - the issue of women's independence.
A very unfair phenomenon is: the same "derailment", Anna ended up in such a miserable situation, but Vronsky can continue to socialize. Vronsky can still go out and have fun, socialize, even participate in political events, etc., oh, and introduce him to high-end girls.
So the life after leaving the country is: Anna sits at home day and night, watching the morning and sunset, and can only wait for Vronsky's return after nightfall - Vronsky who just returned from the social field proudly.
It can be seen from the book that women at that time had no independent status, but all women who appeared and got married depended on their husband's assets to support their families. They had no jobs and no independent source of income. Even socially, Anna knew all the people in Karenin's social circle. It can be said that there is no place for women to be independent from beginning to end.
And it was precisely because of this that Anna was so thoroughly abandoned by society. As long as she has her own job, her own workplace intersection, and her own social circle and true friends - she will not end up in such a miserable end.
Although she made various attempts in the later period: such as reading books, studying (speaking well about architecture) and other meaningful things... But people always have to communicate with people. All the efforts she made were no match for the accumulated daily "silence and desertion", "loneliness" and—
"A person".
Her path to this world is blocked. She really is "one person".
So she completely entered her last desperate situation - mental morbidity and psychological distortion.
When she saw Vronsky returning home, she would be full of resentment, and she would attack and blame him for no reason, and then she would blame herself for treating Vronsky in this way. She became extremely narrow-minded and irritable, and would often ask Vronsky where he had gone, who he had met, and why he came back so late... These insignificant things became the source of her daily concern and even the resulting quarrel.
Vronsky was indeed very tired of this. Who wouldn't be tired? Because Vronsky really hasn't flirted with any other girl since he's been with Anna, and he's really only focused on her, but as I said, human beings need to socialize - he also needs to go out to socialize Ah. So this became one of the frequent quarrels between the two. Anna has changed. She is developing in the direction of morbidity, she is walking on the road of decay. After we read Anna's thoughts and mental state at the end, let's go back and look at Anna at the beginning - the contrast is so great that it makes people sigh. It was society—and her own conscience—that weighed down her. I guess "conscience" might be hard to notice, right? Anyway, I just finished reading the book and didn't notice it. (Looking at the comments, I feel that many people also didn't notice it)
As long as Anna has a little less conscience, such as not caring about whether her son is with her (it turns out that she was right to worry, after she left, Karenin adjusted her son to go in his direction, losing her original brilliance), decisive and refreshing It's not impossible to get divorced and live happily with Vronsky. With a little more conscience, she could, like everyone else in high society, just keep an underground affair with Vronsky. Seriously, what are you doing, cheating is fine. That won't come down to the end. (But that wouldn't be true love, and it wouldn't be what Anna did)
A very ironic point is: having mistresses and lovers is a very common phenomenon in the upper class, and even everyone is normal by default. But only Anna and Vronsky are serious, they want to be together.
So they became the laughing stock and the object of scorn for everyone.
So, the more she went on, the more morbidly she pestered him, became angry with him, became jealous of him, and became jealous and suspicious of anyone of the opposite sex. She kept talking about "love", but in the end, it wasn't love anymore, at least, it wasn't just love that she had been clinging to. Love is second, people must live first, what she is desperately holding is a life-saving straw. And this life-saving straw - it was Vronsky. Because in her world, he is the only one left. But she didn't know about it, and she didn't have the leisure to think about it. She called this morbid and painful torture "love". The love between her and Vronsky still exists, but now it is a crisis of life and death, and the problem of survival must be solved first. She has experienced so much pain, from the society, the world, the people, and her own torture and guilt. She was overwhelmed, and her spirit could no longer bear it. She needed to take medicine every day to fall asleep. I really liked this in the 12th version of the movie. There is a scene where Anna is painfully putting pills into a cup, while Vronsky is lying on the bed and sleeping soundly.
I think this detail is very appropriate, and also reflects the description in the book. Did Vronsky not love her? no.
5. The source of Anna's tragedy - a major tragedy for me:
Two people in true love are obviously together, but because of the above complex factors: they cannot understand and help each other.
Did Vronsky not love her? no.
I don't think Vronsky could understand her at all. He couldn't understand her daily pain at home; he couldn't understand her painful thoughts about her son (he didn't even have any feelings for that kid, that's normal); he couldn't understand that he brought her out and put everything All the good stuff was given to her and she was still unhappy; he couldn't understand her growing hysterical and distrustful of him - even if he really didn't care about other women anymore; he couldn't understand that she strange at times and disliked because of it; but he still had a love for her, though it was sometimes tortured and doubtful. He thinks that she is only like this if she is not divorced. He is still thinking about ways to get her divorced and marry him, and she will return to her former happiness and enthusiasm... He really made a plan for marrying her in the future. and arrangements, and are working hard for it. It's just that he can't understand her. The two of them are completely different.
In the last time when Anna was about to commit suicide, Vronsky made the act of "going out without telling her" for the first time, and was worried, guilty and afraid for it. But he was really tortured by the sick Anna, so he comforted himself like this. After she got used to it, she wouldn't always quarrel with him because she went out. After they quarreled for the last time, he thought it was another inexplicable hysteria and vexatiousness, and he would slowly reconcile when he got home at night. But he didn't know that the quarrel was a goodbye.
When I saw this, I was surprised that Vronsky still showed no signs of changing his mind or abandoning it. Until the end, Anna died. I was still in shock, but I quickly convinced myself: Look, this guy will feel relieved when he sees Anna's death, and he won't even shed a few drops of tears. He turns around and arranges with his mother Go get married! (See how deep my prejudice is)
It turned to the next chapter: two months later, when I saw Vronsky again, I was surprised to find that he was not married, nor lived the luxurious life he could have lived.
He was shocked by a huge blow, and became vicissitudes, decadent, and lifeless. The spirited and attractive young man of the past was gone. Vronsky now thinks that his life is meaningless and disgusting, and that only going to war is meaningful: "It is useful to die on the battlefield."
I only knew in my memory that after hearing the news of Anna's death, he rushed to the body like a madman. I just realized that he has lost the vitality he used to have. The man who used to be ambitious about the world and life has now become lifeless and even disgusted with himself.
He never changed his mind, and he was not happy in the end.
Instead, the light of his life faded with Anna's disappearance.
When he inevitably heard others say Anna's name again, his entire face twitched, sobbing and resenting himself. He tried his best to recall seeing Anna on the train for the first time, trying his best to recall the happy time they had together... but none of this existed... as he said, it was also destroyed.
Ana sacrificed a lot. Vronsky didn't? He has, too, and for him, he's basically sacrificed everything he could have had -- he'd given up the Legion he loved; he'd given up the high position he so ambitiously wanted -- he'd refused for Anna's sake Every opportunity to improve; giving up years of local social circles (and he loves to be social - he and Anna are both charismatic socialites); estranged and even broken with family... but he always has other options , although these options may not be what he wants most. But he can still try his best to communicate and interact with others normally. It's just—he couldn't understand Anna's extreme pain. How could he understand what Anna went through without experiencing it? People cannot empathize without experiencing the same thing.
Another thing about this book that makes me feel tired is that everyone basically doesn't say what they want to say. Everyone is not doing positive communication. Anna tried to grab the life-saving straw many times, and she even wanted to hold Tao Li as the last "someone other than Vronsky to talk to - that is, the connection with this world", but unfortunately, her pain was not conveyed to her. Tao Li, she hesitated in the pain and torment of constantly stepping forward or stepping back, and finally did not really take this step, and Tao Li - to be honest, she did not do anything positive to help. She was only thinking about herself after that.
The ending of this book was completely different from what I expected. What I thought was a tragic ending, to me, is actually not a tragedy. But the book's ending, for me, was truly tragic. It surprised me, chaotic, and heartbroken.
Because I can't help thinking that Anna and Vronsky could have been happily together...they always loved each other...and they could have been...
I was just imagining the two of them together: Anna wasn't married, she met Vronsky; Vronsky also met Anna, who fascinated him. The two were happily together - married. What a cheerful sight it was! Anna was still so bright and full of energy, maybe chasing the children in the yard and running happily, but what about Vronsky? He may be leaning at the door and secretly looking at Anna with a smile in his eyes, and when Anna finds out, he will laugh and rush over to pick up the playful children and join their "team"; they may even often "feed dog food" in front of the children ', while Anna blushed and Vronsky slyly told the children how lovable their mothers were—
Well, in short: I think he'll be redeemed by Anna.
three. The sense of tragedy and "uncomfortable" the whole book gave me
In addition to the above tragedy. I found that the characters in Anna's line basically didn't end well.
Anna's mental disorder lay on the rails, and Vronsky lost the meaning of life. Karenin did not end well either.
Karenin was subjected to cold violence from the officialdom after Anna openly ran away from Vronsky. The peaceful and orderly world he had held on overnight collapsed. So that in the end, he met a lady who was the same as him (maybe even more rigid than him), followed her and believed in a religion he didn't believe in before, and then he could be regarded as returning to a "stable" life. But is that happiness? - I don't think so.
There is also the poor son, who first lost his mother and was later educated by his father. Seeing that he has changed from a cute and innocent child to a "worldly" and "Karenin-like upper class" rules... This child will change in the future. It's hard to say what it will be.
It is a pity that at first, because of my a priori misunderstanding of this book, I have been exploring the development of the plot with a self-righteous attitude, wanting to express contempt or ridicule to those "hateful people" at the end (and these The first thing I stared at in "The Damned" was Vronsky). As a result, the direction and ending of the whole book completely deviated from my conjecture about it (it was precisely because I had the deepest misunderstanding of Vronsky, and the ending shocked me the most was also Vronsky) - in the end, I found that there was no such thing as No bad people and no one did anything wrong...they were all doing what they thought was right. No one hated Anna to the core, they were just doing things that were in line with the moral values of that era. What's more, what would we do if we don't have God's perspective on this matter in modern times? (Not to mention that there are many readers with God's perspective who are scolding Anna.) I'm afraid they are not much smarter than them, right?
Several points before, when I sum up, I always feel that "it is a problem of the times". Now to this final conclusion, I still think that it is the wrong times.
There are no wicked men in the book. What's more, Karenin, Vronsky, Anna, and the younger son are not bad people, but they all ended up miserably.
This is the last sigh that got me stuck in my heart.
After reading this book, after watching the 12 editions of the movie, I will recall the plots in the book one by one. A deep sense of powerlessness has been rippling in my heart.
Humans, why did society become like this? The problem is, I haven't found anyone to blame in this society.
Four. Finally, let's talk about the look and feel of the 12th edition movie.
Finally speaking of movies, the first time I saw the 12th edition of the movie, I didn't read the book.
I followed Anna's perspective the whole time, so I misunderstood the direction of the story and Vronsky - Anna's final suspicions and fantasies about Vronsky's morbidity, I thought it was true.
When she saw Vronsky hiding the telegram, she thought it was Vronsky's derailment, and she questioned him when she exited. But as Vronsky said, it was Karenin's reply about the divorce. And Vronsky didn't tell Anna because he was afraid that she would worry about it again-of course he could see her anxiety. It's just that as I said above, and as some readers probably do too - even with God's perspective - they don't know that Anna is "terminally ill" in the end. This was the case with Vronsky. He thought that Anna was anxious and worried because she was not divorced, and became more and more unstable, and became more and more distant from the original energetic girl. What he wants to solve is divorce. In the end, he wants to go out and take a carriage to find his mother. He arranges everything, his career, funds...prepare and plan for future marriage...he does all these. Full of plans. It's just that he didn't expect that as soon as he went out this time, Anna would say goodbye to him forever.
Vronsky traveled with the girl downstairs because his mother had to let them go with him before agreeing to Vronsky's request for an official document. The main reason why Vronsky is so busy with his position is to settle down in his future life (of course, including a very important workplace, he is responsible for all such huge expenses, and he is responsible for it very well), and go further with Anna plans to marry. But——Later Anna was already "terminally ill". When she sees a person of the opposite sex, she will feel that Vronsky has something to do with it, not to mention that Vronsky's mother hand-picked it?
In the movie, the girl she saw with her head raised at her provocative smile was an imagination, and the Vronsky cheating scene she saw on the train was also an illusion.
That's why I say it's a complete tragedy - Vronsky is still waiting to marry her, trying to prepare for the marriage. Anna was already heading the other way.
In the movie, there is a scene of Vronsky looking back in amazement after Anna lies on the track. I hadn't read the book at that time, and I didn't pay much attention to this scene. At that time, I thought that I didn't want to see this "heartless man" at all. Let's see what it means this time.
But it stands to reason that Vronsky shot himself for Anna and his slump after Anna's death at the end, these are the main scenes, how could they not be played? However, when I was watching the stills, I seemed to see the shooting scene that was not in the movie. I thought it might have been filmed, but I didn't put it in. Before watching the movie for the second time, I also thought: How could it be possible to finish a book so long and detailed in two hours.
But I want to say that this version of the movie is very appealing to me, and I am very satisfied. Basically, it follows the original book completely, except for some minor deficiencies. For example, Vronsky didn't show Anna's boldness and vitality well at the beginning, but I don't think other versions seem to match it. Maybe Anna's charm is difficult to show. Given that many people on the Internet are hacking Kelly, I won't say much. (I have a good impression of Kelly.) Also, I think the relationship between Vronsky and Anna at the beginning is better and more detailed in the book.
One more thing to add: the movie was shot from Anna's point of view, and I didn't read the book at the time, so of course I followed Anna's point of view - and I was misled. So I think this movie is made for people who have read the book, not people who watch the movie without reading the book (such as me before).
Well, back to what I think is the good point of the 12th edition movie - some small details .
1. Vronsky
(1) There is a scene where a guilty Anna asks Vronsky if he feels happy. Vronsky softly draws a circle on Anna's stomach with his finger and softly says "my happiness is you". This obsessive and submissive look fits the feel of the book.
(2) In the later period, the two had already lived together. As soon as Anna saw Vronsky coming back, she morbidly blamed him for no reason. Vronsky stayed where he was and asked, "What's wrong?" Anna ignored his question. After saying this, he scolded him again, and Vronsky repeated the question in a helpless, soft and cautious tone: "What's wrong?" Seeing that Anna ignored him, he quickly took a few steps and pulled away. The topic—thinking that it would divert her attention and make her happier... also fits the Vronsky feeling in the book. When you read it and it matches the feeling in the book, it makes you feel even more uncomfortable.
(3) In the opening scene, Vronsky asked Anna if he wanted to go to another country, and when the camera swept his face, there were tears in his eyes.
(4) When Anna suddenly quarreled with Vronsky for no reason when she returned to the country, Vronsky looked at Anna anxiously and worriedly, and when Anna calmed down, his worried and almost pleading expression reiterated to her again. The love for her, as well as the moist and distressed eyes at the end (the details of this expression are not in the book, but I think it is good).
(5) The last time he quarreled with Anna, Vronsky went out tiredly and returned to the door to speak to Anna, who was morbidly suspicious of her, with tears in his eyes.
Vronsky, who loved Anna so much, never expected that Anna would step onto the rails after he left - not to mention he in the book also thought that they would be reconciled as before, and he was still full of plans. How to legally marry Anna - let Anna return to the original happy state as soon as possible. Here he is still making plans for future happiness, but there is already dragging the abyss and pulling him down to the peak. The movie didn't play him madly rushing to the railroad tracks when he heard the news, nor did he play his slump and give up his life since then... But I can make up my mind... Those pictures, just thinking about it, make people feel unbearable.
two. Anna
When I watch a movie, I watch it with the memories and lingering warmth in the book, so I will always superimpose and compare the picture on the screen with the black and white words in my mind, and appreciate it. Maybe that's why, after watching the movie, I understand a little bit more than I just finished reading the book. (It's a retrospective too)
While watching the movie, the plot progressed to the back, and I wanted to stand by Anna's side many times: I put my hand on her shoulder briskly, and said to her, "Hey, there's me." "Can we be friends?"
Anyway, I am a person who has opened the perspective of God, and I am not a person from that era - I don't care what people in that era think of me, I am full of affection for Anna - I want to stand by her side and let her re-evaluate. Gain confidence and let her know that not everyone in the world (except Vronsky) has abandoned her. I can mix arms with her, go shopping for food on the street, and discuss the latest inventions or books; I can go with her to the clothing store to accompany her to buy clothes, and I will directly and taunt the clerk who is cold-faced towards her. Go back, and then the two ran back to the street, and suddenly burst into laughter...
How nice would that be.
I want to say that I like Anna very much, and even in my mind, "I love Anna" will come up. This is strange to me, because I have never really understood what the word "love" means, and I have never understood how it can be understood by other people? I've never understood what it was. But this time I closed the book, watched the movie, and quietly and distressedly recalled Anna's life. I want to say: I love Anna.
And because Vronsky loved Anna, I also liked Vronsky.
There is also a strange place, when I just rewatched the second day of the movie, when I was the most uncomfortable, my mind always came up with their stories. In the end, I always tried to persuade myself, "These are all in the book! It's not real!" I have always been able to distinguish between works of art and reality, and I always look at them separately when I appreciate them. But this time, it was really a bit "uneasy".
Oh, I'm sorry, and finally pull back to a content in the book.
Fives. On the original intention and purpose of Tolstoy's writing
I've heard people say that Tolstoy had something akin to "misogyny." So Anna was written to death on purpose.
I don't know this, so let's not talk about it. But I have always heard that Tolstoy really wanted to write a depraved woman to ridicule at the beginning, but it was only when he wrote about his feelings for Anna that the direction of the characters changed. (Although I didn't see Anna's debauchery and depravity from the front... On the contrary, I feel that the morbidity in the back will make most people dislike her even more)
These are all heard, I do not know the exact facts.
But thinking back carefully, Anna always had a nightmare in the later period, and that nightmare was to announce her death over and over again. And the movie is more direct (and thus made me understand this point in the book earlier... otherwise I might have skipped this message in a daze): after Anna and Vronsky met The sooty worker, while Vronsky kissed Anna at the same time—the worker was run over to death. This is basically to indicate that Anna and Vronsky met each other or had feelings for each other, and the death omens occurred at the same time.
Thinking back to the big characters on the title page at the beginning of the book: "It's me who seeks justice, and I will repay." At the time, I thought this line of characters was really handsome, but now I think about it, isn't it--Isn't this just talking about Anna? Could it be that Tolstoy wrote this just because he wanted Anna to be punished?
But—as I said above, I don't think Anna is wrong. (It was derailed, but what was wrong was the era when she was forced to marry the "old man") If this is the case, I will feel very unfair! Why? Why punish Anna like this?
Then there were so many derailed people in the upper class at that time, euphemistically called mistresses or lovers, whatever. In the upper class, it is the default "unspoken rule" that no one suffers retribution (most of them are just lust, without the slightest moral restraint). How many affairs did Oblonsky have? See how miserable he made Tao Li suffer in the end? ...these people were not punished. Why is it Anna? Why is it Anna and Vronsky? They both really love each other and want to be together. The misery of the two of them also brought Karenin along with him. This poor man, who has been guarding his own square and regulated world all his life, watched his regulated world crumble little by little. Although I can only convert to religion in the end, I can find some "safety" again.
Hey. Maybe I still have a lot of things I didn't understand. This is the first time I read the book and revisited the movie.
After reading the book for the second time, I should write about the second impression. Maybe then there will be many different understandings.
Final addition: This first draft was written last Friday, June 21st. Because at that time, my head was hot and I wanted to write down my thoughts. Basically, I wrote what I thought of and wrote it down at once. After thinking about it, I will take a good look at the frame. As a result, it has been released today. (When I thought of opening this manuscript in the middle of the day, I felt a little evasive. This book really hurts me.)
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