Love

Paris 2022-04-22 07:01:47

Sophia, oh, this kind of neurotic, hysterical woman, when everyone, including her daughter, was against her, I really thought, no, I actually felt like I was standing behind her in the camera, and she fell to the ground, No one saw but I was helping her up, and when everyone laughed at her I just wanted to stand beside her silently.

The film opens with Tolstoy lying quietly on the bed, Sophia, wearing a white cloak, crept to Lev's bed amid the sound of cocks, she just curled up beside him, called his name, clinging to him, She was afraid that he would leave her.

He belongs to her. She has always thought so in her heart, because she loves him, and he loves her too. Love is so selfish, and when you love, you can't wait for the other person's whole body to belong to you. And Lev was a believer who wanted to write for all of humanity, so there was a conflict. They were arguing and fierce, even in front of a lot of people Sophia scolded Lev: stop writing, push dishes off the table, curse him loudly, curse the followers. It was they who pushed Lev to donate all the copyrights, and it was they who made their husband and wife fall out.

When the selfishness of love collided with Lev's writing beliefs, it seemed as if love also had an irreparable rift. But when Lev signed the copyright transfer agreement, Lev murmured: It was I who betrayed her, and I couldn't say it.

How can I forget, when he first met her, she was so young and beautiful, the most important thing is that she can say everything he wants to say with only two words, she understands him, she understands his inner thoughts . At that moment he knew that he would be with her for life.

Eventually he ran away from home. In fact, he had always understood her hysteria, understood and could forgive her unreasonable troubles, but in his later years he wanted to stay quiet too much.

He left her just to choose a way of life that suits his mood in his later years, and it has nothing to do with whether he still loves her or not. He has always loved him deeply, and it was still her name that he called when he was in a coma.

In the long married life, if Lev is a free and playful kite, if there is any deviation between them, there is an invisible thread that has been held in Sophia's hand, and that thread is true love.

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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!