But Jude Law is always going to seem mischievous, I suspect, and Keira Knightley is, if nothing else and that case is open , a bright-eyed babe.
As her Anna Karenina opens in theatres, she is appearing topless on the cover of Allure magazine. Despite her outstanding and courageous work in A Dangerous Method , and her promise in one or two other films, Allure may be a more natural habitat for her than Tolstoy.
So the indefatigable picture business has attempted Anna Karenina once more, no matter that it has been filmed a dozen times already, proving how easily a great novel can feel like a novelette when put on the screen for a couple of hours.
Sir Tom Stoppard has been hired in for the adaptation this time, and he has done what every screenwriter has had to do in the past—cut out miles of Tolstoy. The staginess is mannered, tiresome and a way of distracting us from the absence of that essential passion that turns Anna from being a regular member of society to a maddened self-destructive. In his novel, Tolstoy never lost his grasp of a decent bourgeois woman, supposedly well placed as wife and mother, who notices somewhere close to 30 the pale flame that has seldom warmed her.
She has had a child; she endures an unrewarding marriage in a moribund society—in the novel, of course, Levin and Kitty are vital because of the alternative life and society they are trying to make.
Anna has to be of a mood that feels the downhill slope ahead. She is sad, a little tired and depressed, and on the point of discovering her own sense of doom. The only thing on her mind is punishing Vronsky for these supposed infidelities.
She bends down to the tracks, so a train car can run over her body. And exactly at the moment when the midpoint between the wheels drew level with her, she threw away the red bag, and drawing her head back into her shoulders, fell on her hands under the car, and with a light movement, as though she would rise immediately, dropped on her knees. And at the instant she was terror-stricken at what she was doing.
What am I doing? What for? Anna dies at the hands of revenge, killing herself to hurt Vronsky. Anna has tried to distance herself from the natural birth-death cycle--both in her refusal to have children with Vronsky and by thinking of her own death as a means to harm Vronsky.
Nowhere along the way does she share Kitty's understanding of life or Levin's strength of conviction. In many ways, she has brought about her own misfortune and spent her entire life suffering the consequences of her own actions. Browse all BookRags Book Notes. Copyrights Anna Karenina from BookRags. All rights reserved. Toggle navigation. Sign Up. Sign In. Get Anna Karenina from Amazon. View the Study Pack. Table of Contents. Plot Summary. Major Characters. Topic Tracking: Balance.
Humiliated by Karenin's generosity, Vronsky attempts to shoot himself. He is injured but does not die. Having tried to kill himself, Vronsky feels that some of his guilt in front of Karenin has passed away. Once he's recovered, he and Anna reunite to travel to Italy, so that Anna can recover her health. After touring Europe, Anna and Vronsky return to Petersburg. Vronsky begins carousing with old friends, but Anna is a social pariah. While Vronsky is enjoying herself, Anna is unable to reconnect with her former acquaintances because of the immorality of her current living conditions.
After a disastrous outing to the opera, where Anna was insulted to her face for her outsider social position, she and Vronsky head back out to the countryside.
The more Anna clings to Vronsky, the more he wants space to himself to hang out with his friends and pursue his interest in public affairs. He has no idea why she is being jealous and irrational. Vronsky sees that he gave up his place in the army to travel with her, so she should be satisfied with what he has already sacrificed.
Anna and Vronsky relocate to Moscow and live there as a married couple even though Anna still hasn't divorced Karenin. Vronsky is increasingly avoiding Anna as her neurotic behavior gets increasingly worse. First we were irresistibly drawn together, and now we are irresistibly drawn apart, she thinks. My love grows more passionate and selfish while his is dying.
It is not jealousy that makes me hateful but my unsatisfaction. As I demand that he give himself entirely up to me, he wants to get further and further from me. I know he is always faithful, but I want his love, not his kindness inspired by a sense of duty.
That is much worse than having him hate me. Where love dies, hate begins. Anna glances at the houses she passes, where live people and "more people, and all hating each other. She loved Seriozha, but exchanged him for another love and did not complain "while this other love satisfied her. Alighting at the station, Anna takes her place in the corner of the train to avoid other people. A porter brings a note from Vronsky saying he is "very sorry" to miss her note but will return at ten.
I won't let you torture me," Anna thinks, her words addressed not to Vronsky but to the "powers that made her suffer.
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