Great love is silent, wrong love is noisy

Lexi 2022-04-22 07:01:47

I don't want to hide my prejudice. Almost as soon as I read the DVD introduction, I felt that this film was a mistake. It was clearly a hymn to Mrs. Tolstoy. Out of love", which looks like a gift dedicated to his wife. A film adapted from the biographical novel of the same name, trying hard to add flesh and blood to historical figures to make them plump, but because it tries hard to highlight the theme of love, it is also a kind of love that makes people look upset. Efforts are all half-hearted, and no matter how hard the performance of the characters suspended in it, it is inevitable that they will be downcast.

Starting from Toweng, the image in the film is tall and mighty, with silver beard and white robe. When you look at it from a distance, he looks like a saint, three parts like Tagore and four parts like Jehovah. For someone like me with a wide nose, thick lips, and small gray eyes, there is no happiness in the world waiting for him. In his later years, Gorky described his appearance: thin and gray-haired. The director seems to ignore this fact and try his best to give Towon a born appearance, but he can only make the protagonist detached from the whole film.

In contrast, Sophia, the heroine, Mrs. Toon, is real and powerful. She makes a big fight every ten minutes and commits suicide every half an hour. I once had a purely fictional impression that Toon's wife should be the butcher's daughter, otherwise he couldn't be so hysterical. After watching Somerset Maugham's "Masters and Masterpieces", Tolstoy was always at home, and it turned out that his wife was born in a famous family, and his father was a physician who was well-known in the upper class, which made people quite surprised. The most unacceptable part of the film is that all Sophia's anger and quarrels are attributed to love, which is a bit like giving a slap to a candy. Obviously the director and the original author both believe in such a love, that is: how can you see a rainbow without experiencing wind and rain? This kind of wind and rain is a mutual torture type of wind and rain. They believe that love can be sublimated in quarrels and quarrels again and again, and finally Toon's death in Sophia's arms is a proof.

I can't understand the love, that's the main reason for not liking the film. An elderly man was asked by his wife, like a bomber, not to donate his property every day. Even if he had left a manor for her and the children, the latter still didn't want to let him go. The reason? Because love, I love you, you have to give me everything, otherwise I will be entangled with you.

How can a man who writes for mankind beg such a wife? How can he be soothed? On such a basis, anyone who overturns the case for Sophia is digging the horns. Besides, according to Somerset Maugham, Mrs. is not a fuel-efficient lamp, and at the age of 52, she once fell madly in love with a young composer, which made Toon annoyed, and wrote a letter saying that she wanted to fly away.

Eating a hen's egg, then visiting the hen, and deifying the hen into a phoenix is ​​the most disgusting place of all biographers. On this basis, I sincerely recommend Maugham's Reading Essays, at least he politely restores the truth of many writers.

In addition to the idea of ​​the film, the bad layout is the rhythm. The reason why Tolstoy is Tolstoy, an epic existence, is not because of his moral value, but because there are only two Tolstoy and Cao Xueqin in this world, and only they have the means to make a big stroke, The figures are vividly displayed on the paper, and the transformations come and go without a trace, and they naturally become a world. From this point of view, this film, like a tribute to Tolstoy, did not learn the essence of Town, the inexplicable secretary role, the inexplicable secretary messing with women, all seem superfluous, boring and tedious, is it highlighting a kind of This kind of intention: These men and women in this world need to be directed by Toon before they can live clearly?

Oh, no, Toon, who died at the inexplicable station, was also living in a miserable state.

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Extended Reading
  • Maximillian 2022-03-25 09:01:18

    I'm an unquestioned Sophia supporter, I can't stand those supporters of public ownership. How can the role played by James look superfluous, and dig deep into the character characteristics and contradictions of the characters directly from the Tolstoys, will it die?

  • Deja 2022-04-24 07:01:19

    It turned out that Bulgakov also worked as Tolstoy's secretary. Maybe Tolstoy didn't know what his ideal was until he died, and he was dragged down by his ambiguous teachings after all, and fell on the last stop of his life. Maybe he has always understood what true love is, but his ideals prevent him from fully showing his yearning for this kind of true love in front of others, and he has been in an unresolvable contradiction all his life.

The Last Station quotes

  • Valentin: Love and be loved. That's the only reality there is in the world.

    Masha: He said that?

    Valentin: Yes, Tolstoy said it, but l'm saying it.

  • Leo Tolstoy: "Your youth and your desire for happiness reminds me cruelly of my age and the impossibility of happiness for me." When I was courting Sofya, she was so young and pure, it seemed impossible that I'd ever have her. I didn't want to tell her how I felt and I wanted to tell her nothing else. So I wrote down a string of letters and asked her if she could decipher them. She looked completely confused, thinking it was a game or... I gave her one clue. The firs two Y's, I said, stand for "your youth" and then the most miraculous thing happened. She simply spoke the phrase, my phrase as if she had read my mind. In that moment, we both knew we would always be together. For those first years, we were incredibly happy, terrifyingly happy.