More about Anna Karenina

So we are still talking about the movie Anna Karenina.

Louise noticed a couple of points that were very interesting.  But before mentioning them it is important to reintroduce a very important concept that most people TOTALLY forget. A movie is a movie, a book is a book.  Don't think the a movie is a book or a book a movie.  For Anna Karenina a 400 to 500 page book is compressed into a two and half hour movie.  They just can't be the same thing.

First Louise noticed how Anna was clearly very close with her son.  However the same can't be said of the movie.  Now maybe in the book this isn't the case, but in the movie it is stark difference.  I pointed out that before she leaves her husband, most of the time when she visits her son, it is staged as a framed picture.  It has these rick brown and gold colors and this perfect setting.  But after she leaves her husband and she visits her son on his birthday, it is on a bare a starkly plain stage.  (Actually it is the same setting from which Levin leaves the stage settings and enter the real world settings, hmmm meaningful?)

The second thing is that there was a define "Double standard" applied to Anna and for that matter Dolly with regards to infidelity. However, I felt this theme was present in a form of "See this is how they thought then or in this story, we aren't judging that view but presenting as part of everything we are doing here...."

Still all in all a Anna Karenina, good movie, memorable.  But Skyfall has guns and explosion.