Even old - our love

Patsy 2022-04-19 09:02:40

what is love?
...
a chronicle of the famous Russian writer Leo Tolstoy.

The elegant and tranquil farmhouse is like an oil painting, the story is slowly advancing, the background familiar to the people you are familiar with, and the two-line narrative adopted by many biographical films, the story is full. After all, good things always make people want to stop.

Love, lucky people never miss it.

The main line of the story is the love between Tolstoy and Sophia. Even if he is old, he can still tell his sincerity when he is sitting on the bedside. If you believe in love, it will not go far. Tolstoy's disciples obviously don't think so, Sophia said: "They can't even read a single word of the master, they don't believe in love!"
And another clue to the story, when the young valentin first arrived at the manor, and the beautiful The sexy masha fell in love, they were together, spent the time when valentin first arrived, and no doubt the masha taught valentin what love is. Body and soul meet, comfort each other, breathe each other. The unique slow motion of this kind of literary film, mixed in the plot, makes all the unsmooth plots look so beautiful.
The story begins with Tolstoy's unbearable quarrel between his wife Sophia and his disciples, and the climax is approaching step by step. Sophia is hysterical. She peeks at her husband's diary. Out of dissatisfaction and resentment, she shoots three times at Chekov's portrait. The convulsive cry did not exchange for pity, but more disgust. A woman's fragile and lonely heart hurriedly explained in the film, her loneliness, her love, desperate, she didn't understand and didn't want to understand It was her husband who was helpless because she never realized what the husband around her wanted. Years can change Sophia's face, but the waywardness and madness in her bones will never change.
Sophia is the queen here, but the halo fades, she's just a confused woman with white hair.

A slow motion point to Tolstoy leaving home. In the night, he turned his back to the manor, stared deeply and then turned around. The night outlined his outline with vicissitudes and weakness. He knelt down, with a kind of nostalgia, impatience, and reluctance, and left silently. At that moment, an old figure of a literary master passed through the monitor, which made people unable to help being moved. There was no glory and prestige. It was as if everything happened in the corner park and the protagonist was just an old man.

It's hard to imagine what a romantic movie would look like if it left the emotional setting. Fortunately, when Sofia reunites with the weakened Tolstoy, the tight embrace represents time and love. What is all the past, gossip, let them go with the wind, after all, we are mortals, even if we are masters, we will not escape from the mundane...
"The Last Station" restores a flesh-and-blood writer Lev Thors Tay, in addition to the leisure of literature, there is something else that we are looking for, and now we have found it.
Let's end with the sentence that started the movie.
"Everything I know...I only know because I love..."
——"War and Peace"

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The Last Station quotes

  • Sofya Tolstaya: Oh, Leovochka, why do you insist on dressing like that?

    Leo Tolstoy: What do you mean, like what?

    Sofya Tolstaya: Like a man who looks after the sheep!

    Leo Tolstoy: It wasn't meant to offend you.

    Sofya Tolstaya: You're a count, for God's sake!

  • Leo Tolstoy: Despite good cause for it, I have never stopped loving you.

    Sofya Tolstaya: Of course.

    Leo Tolstoy: But God knows you don't make it easy!

    Sofya Tolstaya: Why should it be easy? I am the work of your life, you are the work of mine. That's what love is!