"The Last Station" - Characters Created, Love Spreads

Summer 2022-04-22 07:01:47

Because the creative team is unusually British, the film can only be said to show the death-bed story of a Russian great man belonging to the world from the perspective of multiple characters from the perspective of contemporary people. Even if the actors do their best to get rid of British English pronunciation, there is a British feel to the film throughout.

Of course, this method is not uncommon in British and American films. I am just very concerned about how the Russians see the British writing their films. What deserves admiration is that they do not unilaterally express a single emotion of a certain character with too much affection. Among them, five main The characters are all portrayed as contradictory bodies, which poses a certain difficulty for the narrative of the film, but the smooth script and transitions make everything natural.

Valentin Bulgakov, played by James McAvoy, is a bystander and implicit promoter of the whole event, while he also suffers from self-doubt to self-awareness.

Sofya Tolstoy, played by Helen Mirren, is one of the most complex characters, as a wife and a co-owner (in fact) of Tolstoy's copyright in her inner self-knowledge , A role like her is not completely positive, but in today's society, she has the opportunity to be put in order. However, the film does not have a particularly biased praise, but only uses an objective perspective to show its emotional but deep emotional expression.

Christopher Plummer's role as Toweng doesn't have much, but it also shows the non-deified side of the great man before his death.

The other supporting casts, Masha, Sasha Tolstoy, and Vladimir Chertkov, are all equally plump, all struggling between their beliefs and their humanity.

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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!