【Watching notes】Rich metaphors, perfect use of stage play

Drake 2021-12-18 08:01:10

1. Please don't talk to me about the original work, I'm just talking about my personal viewing experience.

2. The scene is centered on the theater stage. The whole theater is both in and out of the play. The characters can smoothly and instantly realize the change and connection through the shuttle in the background and the up and down of the background props, which is also true and illusion.

3. It can be said that it is a cross-cultural high-risk bold production, but the setting of the theater stage seems to give the story enough overhead, so there is no need to ask for power and responsibility.

4. All the exquisite, concise and smooth scene switching is very pleasing. It only takes one flight of stairs from the snowy night to the banquet hall. The illusory feeling of time and space like a stage play greatly improves the compactness of the whole work, which is appropriate. The oppression is very comfortable.

5. The slightly comically consistent movements of the clerks and serfs are full of Russian singing and dancing.

6. Workers with black faces and indistinct faces were buried under the wheels where Anna and Wolensky met for the first time. The valves of love and lust were completely broken, and Huohuo scurried like a train in the countryside, like a nightmare. The blessing of the devil appears everywhere in the movie until the end of death.

7. Anna, who has a husband in the name of "saint" and appeared in a solemn black dress, had a ecstatic dance with the white-clothed Volensky at the Katie Ball. The crowd stopped and lost their color. Like a beaded golden thread, the sparks of sin and beauty dazzled all beings.

8. Anna abandoned the dignity of being a minister and followed the wild life of a man on horseback. The gypsy life she came into contact with at the time became a metaphor for apostasy under the background of the bill that her husband participated in.

9. The parting fear of "transfer" is the most lethal of all confession temptations. The first love that follows is full of the beauty of dancing. The second time in the blue sky and green fields is the pastoral song, and the third time. It seems to be divine like a religious oil painting.

10. Her husband's last respect and protection for her failed to rein in Anna's out-of-control horse rein, and her beloved son's sentence "No one in the world is better than you" pierced the tears; she still gave birth to a lover to grind. Pearl, she was as weak and honest as an open mussel on the sick bed.

11. Anna, who had ruined all her escape, gradually appeared hysterical, fear and doubt increased day by day, and Wolensky did not want to break the boat with her, he was still a passionate hummingbird, keeping an approachable distance from all other women.

12. Anna and Volensky can no longer be the golden thread that strung everyone's eyes, and the stoppage of everyone's actions can no longer be dissolved.

13. Worensky's horse fell and broke his spine during the race, and was unwillingly end his life; Anna was despised in the theater, and Worensky did not show up to save her.

14. After the derailment, Anna has always been like a phoenix on fire, her bright red hair accessories stinging everyone's eyes, a red dress finally accompanied the destruction of her fragile ideal of love, like a winter rose falling under the railroad tracks.

15. Levin, an enlightened and kind serf-owner, marked the end of an era. The glimpse of his lover on the haystack in the morning renewed his courage; and Katie showed amazing tolerance for this low-status and complex family. Harmony and bravery are great comforts.

16. The two are timid and courageous temptations, a little bit of confession, how romantic the confession of Scrabble on the table is!

17. The mutual understanding between elder brother Obranski and his sister-in-law Dolly, and the incident that Levin finally figured out, "not falling in love with someone because of reason", seems to be a soft comfort to Anna.

18. Anna is like a sweet poison, and no one can realize her ideal of love.

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Anna Karenina quotes

  • Count Vronsky: I love you!

    Anna Karenina: Why?

    Count Vronsky: You can't ask Why about love!

  • Nikolai Levin: Romantic love will be the last delusion of the old order.