have to say that Helen Mirren is one of the greatest female actors of this era.
I don't know how many other people in the same film can reveal innate and lifelong grace in madness, and deep pain, confusion and hatred in impeccable demeanor.
This is a story about Tolstoy's last years, it is also a story about the god-building movement, how a fanatical believer manipulates his idols in the name of faith, and it is also a story about love, which nourishes and hurts, and freedom and bondage, a story about understanding and estrangement between lovers.
I think it's already a good film before the film starts to shoot. Before telling the story, the author gives up the narrator's privilege to give a conclusion, puts the camera at the same height as the person in the story, records in parallel, and speaks in moderation. What falls to every living person is wisdom.
Tolstoy said he was not a Tolstoyist, just as Marx said he was not a Marxist. All doctrines are the creations of fanatical believers who entrust their own feelings. They are the result of taking out of context from the overall thinking of the thinkers, and then constantly expanding and explaining them. After such a process, the ideas of this kind of doctrine are no longer neutral. Thought has become a kind of value criterion, and it is often the moral criterion of being extremely domineering and giving up on me. I think that the doom of ideas, because it makes it no longer possible to be reflected, discussed, and challenged, and these are precisely the source of ideas and the guarantee for the development and perfection of ideas. The doom of the thinker is to become a god, and the love of believers is also a requirement, a kind of bondage and persecution. God must use himself to become the standard of living, and must give up the desire to be human, not weak, not hesitant, even death. A claim, a ceremony. What’s even more tragic is that becoming a god is a fatal temptation for thinkers. kind of glory. The most regrettable thing is that there are no thinkers who can prevent the alienation of ideas after they become ideology. The ideas that have become ism are no longer the creation of thinkers, but become the banner and weapon of believers. All thinkers can say is: I am not me. ownists.
PS: I think that the faithful believers of a certain doctrine have almost the same psychological characteristics as religious fanatics, the difference is that they choose Tolstoyism or Christ.
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