![]() ![]() ![]() Celebrating the complexity of the relationship between a reader/audience and the character, Knightley herself opines, “Within the pages of the book it’s so massively open to different interpretation anyway and partly because does write from inside head but often he doesn’t. With ANNA KARENINA, we are given the gift of Keira Knightley. ![]() Thanks to Wright’s breathtaking and sumptuous visual creativity, Tom Stoppard’s keenly insightful and constructed screenplay and, possibly the best performance of Keira Knightley‘s career, ANNA KARENINA is easily the Best Picture of the Year and Knightley joins the very limited list of Best Actress Oscar contenders. Adding a touch of magic to the written word is the lyrical nature of Tolstoy’s construct – a lyricism that is FINALLY (after 25 film versions and countless plays), thanks to director Joe Wright, beautifully translated to the screen under the guise of an operetta, the very nature of which has a musical ebb and flow that mirrors the story and whirling twirling emotional gravitas and beauty that is inherent to it, fueling the majesty and importance of the film in an historical context. It also painted her as morally conflicted young woman, undoubtedly arising from her marriage at 18 to a man 12 years her senior (Alexei Karenin) and 10 years later the need to spread her wings and “find her bliss” in the arms of another. She was a woman ahead of her time in terms of individuality and forward-thinking equality that gave true perspective to the “what’s good for the goose is good for the gander” mindset. Part and parcel to that theme is the issue of love as each of the characters is looking for love, needing love, craving love and each has his or her own definition of what love is.Ī wordsmith beyond compare, with ANNA KARENINA, Leo Tolstoy told a story of family, focusing on the changing times and taboos and the railing against the outdated doctrines of male supremacy by one, ANNA KARENINA. For anyone who has braved a reading of the Tolstoy novel, at its core, the story of ANNA KARENINA is first and foremost about families and love families and their lives set in the socio-political climate of 1870’s Russia where aristocracy was still king and industrialization was encroaching upon the insular nature of the Russian world. ![]()
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