The film takes a clear stand on the side of Sophia, who insists on private ownership of property, maintains a neutral view of Tolstoy, the center of the dispute, and shows a critical and degrading attitude towards Chekov and others. For those who know a little about Tolstoy's life, the authenticity of this film is indeed a discount, so you might as well treat it as a family statement, forget Tolstoy and his great achievements for the time being, and look at Sophia's later years.
In the film, Sophia, a chattering and somewhat neurotic little old lady, is indeed annoying, impulsive, stubborn, and seriously ill. She turns over her diary and letters without asking for her husband’s advice, chasing Tolstoy’s affirmation of love, and often resorts to suicide. , It's hardly like the wife of a great man. Tolstoy became famous throughout the country in his early years. In his later years, he founded Peasant Education to write for the lower class and has become a "sage" in the entire Russian public opinion. The reporters comparable to the modern paparazzi were waiting, and even their family doctors carried a diary to record their words and deeds. What is not commensurate with the status of the great man’s wife is Sophia’s nonchalant expression of her waving pen and paper. She ridiculed the plundering of family property by Tolstoy’s followers, and expressed her resentment and contempt in the most straightforward manner. Eavesdropping on Tolstoy and Chekov's amendments to the new doctor's orders and walking across the balcony in pajamas in full view, can be described as reckless.
Valentin was actually inserted into Tolstoy’s house as Chekov’s eyeliner, but he was unanimously loved by Tolstoy and Madame Sofia. As a young Tolstoy believer, Valentin brought The admiring look approached the life of the great writer Tolstoy. James has always been shy, reserved, and with the natural frank gaze of the Scots. He played a role in his true colors. The little gesture of sneezing when he was nervous brought out a fledgling and innocent young man. We can see through his eyes. To the extraordinary life of an elderly couple. How much people admire Tolstoy, so much condemnation of Sofia, people blame Tolstoy's failure to abandon the life of the nobility and devote all copyrights to Sofia, thinking that she is the hindrance of Tolstoy. Being a great man is not easy, and being a great man’s wife is even more difficult. While she bears the halo of celebrity wives, she also bears the livelihood issues of the Tolstoy family in reality.
Tolstoy and his wife undoubtedly love each other. From the time they quarreled, they were able to cooperate with each other by appointment. After the argument, when they were able to understand each other behind their backs, we saw the tacit understanding of ordinary couples for decades. It is a pity that they are not ordinary husbands and wives. In the struggle between the two of them, Tolstoy believers with different thoughts were mixed. Their disposal of common property has become the most concern of the whole Russia, and it has become a dispute between faith and belief.
Tolstoy, who was in focus, repeatedly stated in front of Valentine that he was not a Tolstoyist, and more like being held on the height of a saint by his own thoughts. He and Valentine discussed his youth The girl who has lived in a slutty life has already escaped from the saint who advocates restraint and abstinence. In the end, he ran away from home more like a helpless old man who avoided the struggle, and even his death became a game between the two parties. A generation of great men could not see their wives according to their own opinions before they died, which in itself violated the principles of love and freedom pursued by the Tolstoyists.
After Tolstoy died, Valentin saw through the cruel heart of Chekov and others in pursuing the truth by all means, and completely broke away from Tolstoyism and ran towards the beloved Martha, or that he had different encouragement from the old couple. I truly practiced Tolstoyism. Those elevated and inhuman theories should have been forgotten. In this world, only love and being loved are completely real, and the frank pursuit of love and being loved is human. s Choice.
Sophia said at the end of his life: "I have loved my husband deeply in this life, and I am his faithful wife." For ordinary people, it is a fluke to grow old. How dare to talk about love extravagantly? It must be love and hate intertwined and struggle to the end of life, which can be said to be love or not.
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