Hello !
This is my 50th post! wow !...just saying !
From January to February there's the winter session of exams. This means that I do not have lesson in order to focus and study for my tests. Being home this often, even in the morning when no one's around, means that I have the possibility to organize my days as I please. I started going to the gym, I restarted taking acting classes and, the rest of the time, I'm supposed to be studying.
Truth is that, if I focus really hard, I won't leave my desk for 4h or more, but the rest of the time, is not like I can spend my day out with friends, in every moment. I rediscovered the pleasure to be home, reorder my bedroom, try to learn how to play the guitar...and watch movies.
Recently I've seen so many movies, and the ones that I liked the most, I decided, are going to be the main topic of my next 2 or 3 blog posts. This ''reviewing'' of movies, may be something that I'll keep doing occasionally, or that maybe will end after this first post.
I'll talk about recent movies, if I'll go to the cinema and watch them, or old movies that I've never seen before, or maybe that I've recently re-watched.
I'd like to start with a movie released on 2012, but that I've seen only yesterday for the first time. Anna Karenina.
* From this point: SPOILER ALERT ! *
I'd like to start admitting that I had no idea what the movie was going to talk about. Although it naturally was mentioned many times in high school, call me ignorant but I've never really known and studied the plot of the original ''Anna Karenina'' novel, written by Lev Tolstoj (original title: Aнна Каренина).
From the beginning until the end, in exception for few scenes, the whole story is settled in an old theater. The background changes on the stage, as well as the objects on the dovecote and the place where the audience sits. The scenes sets in environments for high society members are all built on these parts of the theater. Differently, the places where to find the poor population of Moscow or other Russian cities where the novel is set, are the backstage, the dressing rooms, the ''bridges'' where the technicians changes lights etc. The change of scene are incredibly fast and, although the place is always the same, they recreate very easily every room and situations by adding few essential but specific objects.
The costumes are fabulous. Every dress that Anna Karenina ( Keira Knightley) wears is perfect ! In every details everyone's clothes are magnificent and I have absolutely nothing to say against them ! I can only wish that one day, maybe for a masquerade, I'll be able to wear one of those dreamlike-superclassyandrich dresses.
The story itself it's really interesting, you like the main character at the beginning, hating others. But than, after few but important twists of the story, you end up (or, at least, I did) hating Anna for what she does and for her behavior.
Parallel to the main love story, there's another interesting character that, I have to say, was my favorite one. Kostantin Levin. Differently from the others, He's the one who lives and sees the relationship with a woman as something based on love, true love. And, in fact, at the end he's the only one who marries the woman of his dream, Kitty, and ends up living with her a wonderful life.
The best scene, in my opinion, is the one in which Kostantin proposes to Kitty, for the second time, The first one he's bypassed by Aleksej Vronskij, but than, when he ends up with Anna Karenina, who cheats on her husband, Kitty remains alone, and that's when Kostantin tries again. They're both at Dolly's place (Kitty's sister) and they start talking using those wooden cubes with letters written on them, the ones that children play with. And they have a conversation like this, using the initial letters and slowly composing the whole sentences. With few words she apologizes and he proposes to her confessing her his love.
The photography is amazing, every scene follows the basic rules of composition, also in terms of colors, I enjoyed the contrast created at the ball where Kitty and Aleksej dance together, both wearing white, and, on the other side, we have Anna with a black dress.
I highly recommend this movie ! Hope you liked this new kind of post, and I wish you all a pleasant weekend !
Fede
