"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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Extended Reading
  • Deja 2022-04-24 07:01:19

    It turned out that Bulgakov also worked as Tolstoy's secretary. Maybe Tolstoy didn't know what his ideal was until he died, and he was dragged down by his ambiguous teachings after all, and fell on the last stop of his life. Maybe he has always understood what true love is, but his ideals prevent him from fully showing his yearning for this kind of true love in front of others, and he has been in an unresolvable contradiction all his life.

  • Milton 2022-03-29 09:01:07

    Tolstoy wants to realize his great love for mankind, and his wife Sophia wants to keep the love between husband and wife forever young. Who can judge the importance of others? Who is qualified to say so? Love is the only priceless every All kinds of love should be cherished, and there will be no regrets when you reach the end of life

The Last Station quotes

  • Leo Tolstoy: "Your youth and your desire for happiness reminds me cruelly of my age and the impossibility of happiness for me." When I was courting Sofya, she was so young and pure, it seemed impossible that I'd ever have her. I didn't want to tell her how I felt and I wanted to tell her nothing else. So I wrote down a string of letters and asked her if she could decipher them. She looked completely confused, thinking it was a game or... I gave her one clue. The firs two Y's, I said, stand for "your youth" and then the most miraculous thing happened. She simply spoke the phrase, my phrase as if she had read my mind. In that moment, we both knew we would always be together. For those first years, we were incredibly happy, terrifyingly happy.

  • Title Card: Everything that I know... I know only because I love. Leo Tolstoy - War and Peace