Anna Karenina - The story
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- Опубліковано 5 січ 2025
- Anna Karenina is acclaimed director Joe Wright's bold, theatrical new vision of the epic story of love, stirringly adapted from Leo Tolstoy's great novel by Academy Award winner Tom Stoppard (Shakespeare in Love). The film marks the third collaboration of the director with Academy Award-nominated actress Keira Knightley, following their award-winning box office successes Pride & Prejudice and Atonement.
The timeless story powerfully explores the capacity for love that surges through the human heart, while illuminating the lavish society that was imperial Russia. The time is 1874. Vibrant and beautiful, Anna Karenina (Ms. Knightley) has what any of her contemporaries would aspire to; she is the wife of Karenin (Jude Law), a high-ranking government official to whom she has bourne a son, and her social standing in St. Petersburg could scarcely be higher. En route to Moscow Anna makes the acquaintance of Countess Vronsky (Olivia Williams), who is then met at the train station by her son, the dashing cavalry officer Vronsky (Aaron Taylor-Johnson). When Anna is introduced to Vronsky, there is a mutual spark of instant attraction that cannot -- and will not -- be ignored.
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In cinemas February 14
I love the line towards the end of the film. “If only she’d broken the law. But she broke the RULES.” Incredible, how women are in so many ways subjected to the virgin/whore dichotomy. Yes, Anna really did screw over Karenin, and his pain is keenly felt in Law’s performance, but Vronsky’s love for her is just as palpable. And she evens says it, when her children know what love is like, they’ll forgive her sins.
I wanted to see if I would be saying those words if it were a film about the real Anna Karenina.
Anna Stepanovna Pirogova is the one who inspired Anna Karenina, she was not an adulteress, she was in a relationship with a man who promised to marry her when she was replaced by a younger woman.
She committed suicide not because of social disapproval, but because she was abandoned.
The story of Anna is so tragic. I just finished watching the movie. So forgive me if I get things wrong for all the book lovers out they’re. But this story of ‘love’ is so tragic. She was with a man. Which in her time was a very good man. He had money, he provided her with a very good life, and she had a child she loved so dearly. But she was bored, her marriage had no “passion”. Even tho I believe her and her husband could have learned to love again and that they’re was still something they’re she didn’t see it. So this of course charming, well liked man comes. And out of everyone and everything chooses her. Saying that he ‘loves her’. I hated the fact that he was so obsessed with her at first without even knowing her. The red flags were they’re and he is definitely narcissistic. He had the traits. He finds someone he likes, he idols them and is obsessed with them for awhile, then he abandons them and moves on to the next obsession. It made me mad that she just threw away her life without even really knowing this man. Saying her “children would forgive her once they understood love.” That bull crap. Because what Anna has wasn’t love. It was needing to get away from a society, a life she felt stuck in. And it was him and his stupid narcissistic self choosing her to obsess over and making her feel special. You see they didn’t love each other they love how each other made them feel. LIKE YOUR REALLY GOING TO ABANDON YOUR CHILD AND LIFE. You have to realize back then when Anna had a affair and left with him instead of staying with her husband it’s ruining her life. She’s casted out of society. In return of what she thought was a happy life instead is a trash and worse one. She’s lonely, has no friends, rumored about, made a laughing stock, has a child she doesn’t want, can’t see the child she actually loves. While he(too lazy to spell his name) is out living a very similar life to what he had before her. He is partying, laughing having fun. He ALSO let Anna go and embarrass herself at a PARTY not wanting to go with her. JUST TO SHOW UP and FLIRT with another girl PRETENDING like Anna DOESNT EXIST. THEN CHEATS ON ANNA AND LEAVES HER FOR THIS NEW GIRL. See what I mean so this is what I meant by he’s narcissistic. He moved on from Anna and made this new girl his new obsession. (I hope he trips on a knife tbh) I don’t know if he ever loved her or she ever loved him. It’s hard to say and in this situation love is a very thin line I can’t tell if they crossed or not. Anyways Anna who is abandoned by the way and can’t go back to her ex husband bc she divorced him just as her stupid self realizes the “love of her life” cheated on her. So she’s left with barley any options. Really none she doesn’t have anyone or anything. I mean theyres still light at the end of the tunnel. But she just throws herself at a train and get killed (reference to when she first met “the love of her life” a man threw himself in front of a train and died” anyways immediately Anna regrets it and realized she made the wrong decision and dies. Someone had a theory the reason she really killed herself was to punish herself. Not bc she felt like she had no options but she felt like she deserved to die. Anyways at the end of the movie your actually really sad. I HATE Anna and wanna slap the crap out of her. But I can’t help but feel bad for her. BUT I STILL WANNA MURDER HER WITH MY BARE HANDS. The whole time you want they’re love story to work. Bc that’s life and we all secretly want the same thing. Someone good looking to just come along and choose us. We feel for Anna. But the reality is a lot of the time that person isn’t the right person. A lot of the time these relationships can be very toxic. And a lot of the time if you have to sacrifice so much for someone then maybe just maybe that’s not love. It’s also a realization that the grass always looks greener on the other side. She’s thought she would be happy but she was as sad as ever. She had wasted her life on this man who didn’t even really ever love her. And realized it too late. It’s sad because we want the story so badly to go one way. We all want to believe that they are soulmates and this affair will turn out fine and Anna will be happy. But the sad reality is that doesn’t happen. That this is life ad most of the time when people throw themselves to quickly into love they get they’re heart broken. The ending leaves you wishing you could turn back time for Anna, wishing things would go different, wondering if he had ever really loved her. It’s really sad. It makes me hurt. If I ever met Anna I think I’d just hug her and hold her for a second. IF I EVER MET HIM ID MURDER HIM THE SELFISH DISGUSTING MAN WHORE. I wanted so badly for him to change his ways and love her really love her. But THE REALITY OF LIFE IS MOST PEOPLE DONT CHANGE NO MATTER HOW MUCH YOU WANT THEM TOO!! The selfish prick I swear. Anyways this is just my thoughts.
Yes! Thank you for explaining it, I didn’t really understand it when I watched it, and I feel like everyone would learn something about this. Thank you!
he didn't cheat on anna at all. she was IMAGINING him cheating on her because she was starting to go insane from being cast of in society. her insecurities caused him to pull away from her, causing her to become more insecure. she craved passion and excitement and thus society punished her. also because she was a girl, she was viewed as a "slut" whereas he continued to be a normal person, which was an unfair gender role that has continued throughout society even in modern times
Thank you so much for explaning to me this movie tht made me feel like crap . Im writing a novel on youtube if your interested .
@@silentnovelist1481 really?
Sorry but you were not watching the same movie as we did. I agree with a comment above, he didn't cheat on her, you can clearly see the way they do it is to show shes imagining that he is cheating on her, he did love her as he did many things which others wouldn't when they are not in love, he wasn't narcissist, the actual narcissist is Anna, she leaves her family thinking about herself only, she cheats on a very respectful faithful husband, does not think for one second the amount of people she is about to hurt e.g. her brother, husband, kids, kitty, everyone. She keeps becoming more Insecure and making arguments with the guy she's with currently but also she isn't divorced, she is going through divorce, is not finalised.
This Anna is more convincing that previous movies.
They didn't get the main ideas of this story, levin is autobiography of Tolstoy himself who searched for happiness in ideal family but didn't find it and was unhappy and Anna who was very brave to admit her true love, stand against society and be loyal to love till the end inspite of all society's prejudices, it didn't match with reality of life, and she was also unhappy . So one of the ideas is whether you try to make your life proper , to make a good family according to morality or whether you stand against all the rules and pursue your own happiness against morality you still will be unhappy in any case. Karenin in book was shown as a man who never loved and he was unable to love Anna, he only was worried that all should be according to the rules and conventions of society
That's how you interpret it. The way I saw the book,is Anna Karenina is a cowardly,irresponsible idiot who ruined her life.
@@tiaaaron3278 I agree with you
Kitty and Levin achieve happiness while Anna increasingly unhappy and self-centered was paranoid with Vronsky. She was not a victim like the woman who inspired her, Anna Stepanovna Pirogova. She was not an adulteress, she was a housekeeper and lover of a neighbor of Tolstoy who was a widower and promised to marry her. but he abandons her to marry a younger woman, and Anna as his namesake in the book kills himself by throwing himself under a train.
No film will ever get the book, the thoughts, the fine emotions, the inner fights, the beliefs Tolstoy told us.
Maybe the very long serials in Russian which are very close to Tolstoy.
When I read the book (in German) I had the impression that Karenin loves her but in a very idealistic and stiff way.
She wanted to be loved as a woman.
His access to save the marriage was the law and the society rules. And that was useless on this stage of estrangement.
This was a good movie; it's on Netflix so yay!
No one is talking about a mother who abandoned her son and vilified a man who scraped her up from the dregs of life
I really want to see this now O_O
Did you watch the 1997 Anna Karenina with the requisite Sophie Mrceau, Sean Bean, filmed on location in the splendour of
St.Petersburg, filled with Tchaikovski music of the era. This 2012 movie shows Anna desperate for love, him looking almost like a teenager fitting into the role of young officer having an affair with a rich married society woman, almost a must then.there was no mature love.
Liked the film but they deviated from the book in so many ways. The characters don't always have the personality of the characters in the book. I guess with the book being over a thousand pages long they had to cut a lot things out, that's understandable, but I loved the book so much that I wish it resembled it more.
I've recently watched a version in Russian,( wiht english subtitles) and the characters seem to be more "Real" as they are described in the book. The film is very long, more than 3 hours ( 2 parts) and there are more scenes including about Lievin, his thoughts and his life in the country (very beautiful) and even some dialogues in french just as in the book. The link is just below. I am searching for a version in french. ua-cam.com/video/Y5YutODgC0k/v-deo.html
Did vronsky cheat? I was so confused
Levin is my least favorite character in the world
What? While the reason I continue reading the book was him hahahha. But I didn’t watch the film maybe in this movie he was cringe
No no no , not an English version ! That was the worse Anna Karenina ever made!