The Curse of Love is Lifted From Me - Anna Karenina | RomComs

[@m.joanhay522]

Wonderful actor Jude Law is almost unrecognizable, his handsome face undone!

[@bindiyamaru6092]

Love is just love... It's beyond physical pleasures... It's the feeling to be together, to talk to each other, laugh and cry with each other. Physical relations are only a small part. Most relationships that last long do so only due to love and not just due to physical relations.

[@mariaalano3077]

A woman is more vulnerable to her feelings, more blinded in love.

[@B501M]

Does it appear, to anyone else, at 1:38/1:39, like she's in two places at once ? by the intertwining white patterns & decor of the walls, it looks like she's at Vronsky's... yet, the blue of the room is also used as the backdrop for when she's at home, with her husband... I wonder if this effect was intentional? It just seems, to me, by the way the camera is angled, and the way she speaks directly at us, the viewers, it's like she's speaking to us, directly... not to Vronsky, nor to her husband... it's a very, very intimate picture of Anna... and the fact that she speaks directly to us {the audience}, is of pivotal significance... (We know that Anna is happy to be pregnant with Vronsky's child, yet we, as the audience, also get a sense of foreboding/eeriness, knowing that her happiness will be short-lived, by her own demise, of course)

[@kittykatz4001]

No. I think she is in the same place.

[@B501M]

"I'm sorry; its my demon" can anyone explain that [part] to me? i've never read the novel... but... anywho...

[@floratinuviel2762]

I believe she is referring to the part inside of her that is unpredictable and negatively influences her perspective so that she sees things from a dark viewpoint (jealousy, anger). We all as humans have this part inside of us, but it is braught out into being depending on what situation we find ourselves in. Anna is a very emotional and passionate woman and people like this tend to be more linked to their darker side (you could even look into the Myers Briggs "Shadow Type" concept to understand more). Because she finds herself in a tricky situation and she loves Vronsky so much, her "demon" (the negative side of her personality and thoughts) is braught out in the form of her being angry with Vronsky and telling him things she otherwise wouldn't.

[@nadlena]

I think it is her attacking herself for speaking up the truth as it really is. She calls this "demon" as women were taught to shut up and never disapprove or judge. I'd say she just expresses her observations and speaks out her emotions.

[@xxxx-re2sp]

@@nadlena I don't think so. Women, in her time and in the book, did speak their thoughts. What she referred to as "demon" was her jealousy. It was their (with Vronksy) code. It was in the book itself.

[@isaa1782]

In the book it's mentioned that they both started calling Anna's emotional outbreaks of jealousy, anxiety, anger etc. "her demon". I think they called it that since they saw it as something ruining their happiness without reason, and as Anna not really being herself in those moments like something dark possessing her (not literally obviously).

[@nicoletran6468]

A Pregnant Woman's hormones are all over the place... I see it here but she felt guilty for having her thoughts said out loud as she did.

[@brooklynsfinstallday]

Anna is terrible, I love a villain as much as the next person but she was awful to watch (Anna not Kiera)…. Depraved is the perfect word.

[@Liitebulb]

Men Had affairs in their marriage all the time. Too many excuses made for them. Then you're surprised when a wife does the same.

[@brooklynsfinstallday]

@@Liitebulb that’s the problem, sis to sis some of us gotta get over ourselves. Yes men have affairs too, this still makes an affair wrong. What makes her depraved is her sheer level of selfishness, desperation and the lengths she is willing to go to for carnal pleasure. And yes it was just hedonism.

[@AmyJiang]

I do agree, reading the book and to some extent the film as well shows a very unique twist, at first making us empathise with Anna being trapped in a loveless arranged marriage, seeking the prospect of freedom and bliss with a young and adorising new lover...Only to have it flip around in the second half and make us realise that Karenin did love her, in his own way, and her refusal to choose a side, both wanting the freedom and love from Vronsky and the luscious life and reputation that was bestowed on her thanks to Karenin, only made life more miserable for all parties involved. Her large ambivalence towards how her children would be seen or taken care of in the aftermath apart from in crucial moments when karenin makes it clear he's 'taking' something from her is also very telling-ultimately it was only about her always trying to seek more, that little something else that would make all the difference and change everything, but I think no matter what she found she would never have found happiness in the end.

[@brooklynsfinstallday]

@@AmyJiang Exactly, a lesson I got from the book was if you aren’t able to find happiness in yourself you will never find it in others. There needs to be some level of self acceptance (or religious) and Anna just never found it she just runs from her problems or drowns them out

[@AS-tn3wh]

@@AmyJiang Anna's already suspect even in the first parts of the book. It is hard to notice at first, but the first time we have seen Karenin in the book is after Anna had already fallen in love with Vronsky, and we mostly see Karenin through her eyes ...so her descriptions of Karenin and their marriage is unreliable at best.

[@nadezdapatusova8630]

Karenin has beennthe loving Anna

[@m.joanhay522]

Jude Law is the best in this film.

[@DeepScreenAnalysis]

Keira Knightley doesn’t have the sensuality to do Anna justice.

[@TrelliessRose]

How the F is this a "Rom com"?

[@kittykatz4001]

I have read the book many times: the book is not a romance, nor is it “light hearted,” as Rom coms are. Nothing comedic about this story.

[@ДмитрийФёдоровичКарамазов]

@@kittykatz4001 Stiva Oblonsky is somewhat comical.

[@kittykatz4001]

@@ДмитрийФёдоровичКарамазов He’s a Buffoon. I don’t think Lev Tolstoy was “deliberately” injecting comedy in his drawing of Oblonsky’s character. Oblonsky was a buffoonish villain, imo, but I don’t really think LT was going for comedic writing, but I see that you, like LT, are Russian, so I am limited to reading translations of LT’s novels.

[@anneg3065]

how could you push a pregnant woman?!?! I liked Karen up until this point...

[@azrasamsam5436]

Because he realized that he got insulted in society and society matters more than wife for a priest

[@muborakrustamova9753]

​@@azrasamsam5436 he didn't do that in the book....

[@azrasamsam5436]

@@muborakrustamova9753 well, if we read the book while story inverts

[@rocco24554]

She cheated on him and she pregnant with another a persons child. She lucky she wasn’t pushed downs. Couple flights of stairs

[@katyekel]

She completely deserved it. Her selfishness and depravity reached its limits and even a perfectly reasonable and calm man like Karenin is entitled to his own outbursts. All that happens to Anna are consequences of her own actions…

[@flightevolution8132]

She gets exactly what she deserves here, this is GREAT

[@kritipant2989]

Did I read the book wrongly ? When i was reading this scene, in my head, Anna was calmer and more thoughtful, but here she seems a bit bipolar.. I probably imagined it incorrectly, idk🤔

[@jennifergottliebel-azhari149]

Its Hollywood

[@Олимпиада-щ7ц]

Всегда жалела Каренина но в исполнении Лоу - нет ,он злой

[@IVR68]

Он и в половину не настолько злой, насколько мог бы по отношению к жене, беременной от другого, при этом продолжающей с ним встречаться.

[@Олимпиада-щ7ц]

@@IVR68 Вы правы . Это было впечатление первого взгляда. Просто не нравится Лоу. Сыграл прекрасно. Не могу смотреть дальше ,жалко всех ,кроме Вронского - здесь. Хотя он так юн.. и его жалко. Виновата его мать, плохо воспитала. Спасибо за внимание

[@IVR68]

@@Олимпиада-щ7ц мне трудно отделить фильм от книги. И жаль детей. Если Сережа ещё помнит мать, ее ласку, то Аннушка так и не узнает, как это, мамина любовь, хорошо хоть Каренин сразу полюбил девочку.

[@Олимпиада-щ7ц]

@@IVR68 да жальче всех. Прелюбодеяние страшное зло

[@helenamamaghani6287]

💔💔💔💔💔

[@orchidcapitalofitaly9780]

Hmm 9 comments?

[@thanksmuch8547]

Talk to Jesus Christ and ask for direction, after repentance.

[@queenberuthiel5469]

Hmmmm. 2 comments??

[@S_J_banana]

I can only see 1

[@theresaandrade8261]

@@S_J_banana KZbin is odd...I guess my comment now makes it the 3rd but its kind of weird that we all watched this random video on the same day lol

[@deadroomeyes8965]

so?

[@queenberuthiel5469]

@@deadroomeyes8965 Read the reply above yours. I commented this 4 months ago, out of curiosity, about the 2 hidden comments.

[@Ayeayeaye614]

Thank heavens the Patriachial age is passing and we are entering into the matriarchal age. Fear not there will be no burning of men at the stake .

[@kelseycaban1738]

Historically, matriarchy’s never last. I’ve seen what a matriarchy would look like today and it’s WAY more toxic than what you see in this movie.

[@savantsar]

Why can't we just be treated as equal?

[@renatoarauz7784]

Careful what you wish for

[@yourfanfictionhd]

Matriarchy is the beginning of a fallen civilization.

[@deadroomeyes8965]

@@kelseycaban1738 what matriarchies are you talking about?

[@chachichachi3557]

Hhhhhmmm 12 comments

[@gugurama9777]

Knightley is weak in playing, theatrical exaggerated acting doesnt fit cinema..

[@xthefordx]

the movie was literally set as a play...

[@farawayeye8423]

She’s always perfect

[@Lathrok]

You just didn't get the point of that movie did you

[@zitronentee]

Have you watched the movie? It's set on stage from the beginning. I'm surprised you didn't notice.