The film reality and the sense of the stage are combined together. In the real picture, the feeling of the characters on the stage being separated from the scene at that time is cut from time to time, so as to better express the inner emotions of the characters, making the whole film more intense and romantic.
The protagonist Anna's belief in the supremacy of love touched me. At the beginning of the film, Anna travels from St. Petersburg to Moscow to mediate the emotional crisis between her brother and sister. Her brother was often unable to resist the temptation of young women, in whom he gratified sensuality, and perhaps some short-lived love, or rather passion, but he was still in love with his fading wife, which may no longer be called love. but a kind of affection. This time Dolly couldn't take it anymore and didn't want to reconcile with him. Anna persuaded sister-in-law that since the two of you love each other, why can't you forgive him and live a good life. "Love" is the most important thing in Anna's view, and it can overcome everything. When Anna fell in love with the young military officer Voronsky, regardless of her husband, children, status, reputation, public opinion, it is not surprising that she insisted on getting a divorce and staying with her lover. In the process, Anna also thought about compromise. When she had a fever after giving birth to her and Voronsky's daughter, she wrote to her husband, asking him to forgive her and return to her. She called Alexei's name in her dream. As Anna had expected, he came back. Alexei is a saint, says Anna. He is an MP and has done many good things for the country. From the very beginning, Alexei planned to cover up his wife. As long as Anna no longer has anything to do with her lover, she can pretend that nothing happened. This time he promised to take in Anna and the newborn girl, and promised that Anna, who was sick, would invite Vronsky whenever she needed. Anna lay on the bed, let her lover and her husband shake hands with her, and said 'My husband is a saint.' I think this move shows that Anna is grateful and appreciated to her husband, and maybe she once loved her. But after her illness, Anna was willing to divorce, lose her social status (because she was the wrong party, so the law would not recognize her remarriage with other people), lose the opportunity to spend a long time with her son, and be despised by the nobles in the social circle, she would rather Endure it all with the people she loves.
On the other hand, Vronsky is a shameless and greedy devil who only knows how to indulge his passion and lust, and is known as "love". He didn't really love Anna, he was just infatuated with that beautiful young woman for a while. At first he pursued the young and beautiful Kitty, who was eighteen years old, and fell in love with Anna from the first time he saw her, and immediately abandoned Kitty to pursue Anna. When Anna touched her pregnant belly and told Vollensky with joy that she felt the movement of the child in her belly, he was indifferent. He hesitated at first when Anna was scorned and insulted in public, and Vronsky desperately needed her name. At this time, his cousin the princess secretly encouraged him to go to Anna's side and tell everyone that she was his official wife and was cast aside by the social circle with Anna, but he gave up. In the end, Vronsky's mother wanted to prevent her son from staying with Anna, and let him date another princess who was in a relationship and spend the weekend together. He still went. Anna is sad, angry, hesitant, and desperate. The film depicts Anna's mood while inserting the scene of Woronsky and the princess having a romantic relationship, which shows his shamelessness, selfishness, and greed in a strong contrast. A strong sense of tragedy is highlighted.
Another character in the story, Levin, is an idealist who has always been in love with Kitty. In his view, love is noble and persistent, while only pursuing lust is greedy and unclean. Kitty grew up and matured after experiencing Voronsky's transference and divorce, and Levin's persistence and waiting finally exchanged for Kitty's love.
Anna, who was stubborn and impulsive, committed suicide in desperation without waiting for Vronsky to return. At the beginning of the film, when Anna and Woronsky first met, a railway worker covered in black carbon died while lying on the tracks.
At the end of the film, Silva stands silently outside the eaves smoking a cigarette due to the suicide of her sister Anna. And Anna and her lover's daughter was adopted by her kind husband. The camera cuts to two brothers and sisters playing in the wild flowers and grass, and Alexei looks at them with a smile. The little brother and sister's relationship is as good as the relationship between Sziva and Anna.
What Tolstoy admired was pure love and the courage to pursue it. Whether it is Anna, who is restless and vigorously pursues love; or Levin, who retreats into the countryside and waits for the person he has always loved, all are pure and noble. Of course, the author criticized that feudal, autocratic, male-dominated era, and made his own efforts for freedom, equality and women's rights.
When I was a child, there were two volumes of "Anna Karenina" in the first and second books. At first, my grandfather read it, and then my mother read it. I just listened to the name and couldn't get enough to read it, which seemed to be out of touch with real life. Russian classics. After watching the movie this time, I plan to read the two original books again, and I will definitely have a new experience.
2013.2.15
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