When I watched the play, I read about half of the novel, so I was spoiled by the reunion of Andre and Natasha and Andre's death. The first time I saw it, I felt that the filming was rushed, and I was not moved. The novel was shelved when Natasha and Andre broke apart, and it took about two weeks to calm down and read it again.
Calm down and feel that Andre's dazed sentence "This is really you?" in the play is very touching. The group of shots when he was dying, the last person walked away, beautiful. But after all, in the novel, Andre is indifferent and detached at the end, and will not miss the beginning with Lise and Natasha at the last moment. When I read the novel, I was shocked by this indifference and detachment, and couldn't help but imagine my own death. The TV series is poetic, but it does not portray Andre's soul.
James Norton's appearance is worthy of the extremely handsome in the novel, but he is not cold enough, he is just melancholy. Ah, how beautiful it would be to imagine a stern, handsome and pathetic Andrei, and I wish he wasn't as old as the Soviet version!
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