flee to heaven

Darion 2022-03-23 09:02:57

Because I have seen Zweig's "When the Human Stars Shine", I will find that everything is so familiar when I compare my memory of "Escape to the Sky".
It can be regarded as the movie version of Escape to Heaven. Leo Tolstoy's deathbed escape is undoubtedly one of those historic moments. It wasn't until that moment that he dared to truly break with the life he had been hesitant to live in for years. And the walls of the waiting room that separated Leo Tolstoy from the horde of journalists that surrounded him like vultures seemed to declare the distance between his ideals and this ugly and beautiful reality. But the fragile walls of the small waiting room also waited for the "juvenile"'s final ideal and final peace, like the last piece of sanctuary being guarded.
Sophia is not a bad person either, in fact she truly loves him, although perhaps twisted into possessive and controlling. Although she is narrow-minded, paranoid, and stubborn, she is just an ordinary person bred under the background of the times.
As for the technical aspects of the film, let's put it aside.
If the world does not have the conditions to realize your lofty ideals that are too noble and beyond the times, then...the only way is to flee to heaven. Even so, until the last moment, he still wanted to see Sophia, and their daughter was not completely stone-hearted. It's just that everyone seems to have something they have to insist on based on their own position and beliefs.
As for the expression of opinions in the film itself, it seems to be more cautious. It just lets the wishes and opinions of various people collide with each other. As for what is obtained, let the viewer judge for himself.

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The Last Station quotes

  • Sofya Tolstaya: Oh, Leovochka, why do you insist on dressing like that?

    Leo Tolstoy: What do you mean, like what?

    Sofya Tolstaya: Like a man who looks after the sheep!

    Leo Tolstoy: It wasn't meant to offend you.

    Sofya Tolstaya: You're a count, for God's sake!

  • Leo Tolstoy: Despite good cause for it, I have never stopped loving you.

    Sofya Tolstaya: Of course.

    Leo Tolstoy: But God knows you don't make it easy!

    Sofya Tolstaya: Why should it be easy? I am the work of your life, you are the work of mine. That's what love is!