"The Last Station" is also translated as "Road to the World". It tells the story of the love and hatred between Leo Tolstoy and his wife Sophia (daughter of a Russian imperial doctor) in their later years, the great Russian writer Leo Tolstoy.
Toon and Sophia had thirteen children. Descendants have a lot of comments on their relationship, but most tend to be positive. The film opens with Toon's assistant and secretary Valentine as the film's entry point. The mansion of the great nobles in the 19th century was romantic, elegant and luxurious. Every little detail of the room revealed exquisiteness and indispensableness. The bedroom was very large, and the windows were also very large. Come in, warm and harmonious. Toon and Sophia's faces were full of smiles, and their relationship was very good, no doubt. Valentine also strengthened Martha, who was also the loser of Toon. In the middle and late stage, because Sofia disliked Toweng's "radical" disciple Chekov, and because Toweng did not like Sofia's extravagant life, this was contrary to Toweng's compassionate attitude. So there are differences and contradictions between them. In the middle of the night, he left without saying goodbye, which made Sophia become furious, out of control, and even jumped into the lake to commit suicide, but Valentine came up. The technique here is similar to Joe Wright's Atonement, where the scenery gets darker as the story progresses, but it's different. I don't think The Last Stand ended up being a tragedy, because they didn't die in the fire of war with love and hope like Cecilia and Robbie did. At the end of the movie, despite everyone's obstruction and the cameras of reporters from all over the world who were waiting for the fall of the superstar to report the big news, Sophia rushed into the room with love and guilt for Toon, and the two lovers hugged each other with tears in their eyes. . In fact, in the last days of Toon's life at the railway station, he hoped to see Sophia, but this was blocked by the people around him, even his daughter. But in the end I think the ending was happy, Valentine and Martha walked together, Toon left in Sophia's arms...
The dividing line - Toon, as a bourgeois, renounced the bourgeoisie after the "Terror of Arzamas" in 1869, welcomed the arrival of the revolution. He left in 1910, nine years after the October Revolution, and Russia became the world's first socialist country. I think Toon's spirit in the sky is also gratifying, if there is a soul. Here I admire Sophia. If it weren't for his persistence, the ending might be very different, and thousands of tragedies will be written by future generations. Of course, I also admire Helen Mirren, who plays the heroine Sophia, who won the 82nd Academy Award for Best Actress for her role as Sophia. The wonderful performance of Christopher Plummer, the actor who plays Toon, especially Toon's appearance is so consistent with the image in the video material that it creates an illusion.
Of course my favorite is James McAvoy, who plays Valentine. I believe that many girls can't escape his deep blue eyes.
I think it's more appropriate to define this movie as a romance, just like ordinary couples in our lives, who have experienced love, misunderstanding and separation and finally reunited. But I believe that after watching this film, the desire to revisit Toon's works must be aroused. Of course, you can also see the reign of Tsarist Russia in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Tolstoy was a "mirror of the Russian Revolution", a "genius artist" with "the most sober realism". (Lenin Commentary) It is impossible to know Russia without knowing Tolstoy. (Gorky Commentary)
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