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Taking the story of a classic like Anna Karenina is at once an
appealing notion, rather like reworking Shakespeare in a modern
version, and a way to see it again. The issue here is that the revision
is just one story of the great novel; it's an adaptation of all the
previous film versions and therefore dispenses with the other more
interesting material in the novel to leave only the melodramatic and
increasingly psychotic romance.
What is shown in the TV series is typical in contemporary styling: the
usual camera angles, the settings in homes and airports, with standard
everyday dialog. The dialog in this version has a soap opera quality,
like Neighbors in its banality and ordinariness. Some dialog is clumsy
and akin to adolescent expression in its deliberate use of image and
metaphor but poorly written and the overall effect is inept. The voice
over narrator is less accomplished, both unnecessary and questions the
purpose of the drama as it fills in the back story of all the
characters.
This is a stale and cliché borne infested production which has
meretriciously yoked a great book in order to market itself and thereby
disguise its defects and lack of artistic value. It didn't need a
Russian novel at all; the old book serves no use at all because this is
simply a modern adultery story which is really just day-time soap
opera. The Russian writer Vladimir Nabokov had a Russian word for this:
poshlost, which in English means, kitsch, pretentious rubbish.
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Taking the story of a classic like Anna Karenina is at once an appealing notion, rather like reworking Shakespeare in a modern version, and a way to see it again. The issue here is that the revision is just one story of the great novel; it's an adaptation of all the previous film versions and therefore dispenses with the other more interesting material in the novel to leave only the melodramatic and increasingly psychotic romance.
What is shown in the TV series is typical in contemporary styling: the usual camera angles, the settings in homes and airports, with standard everyday dialog. The dialog in this version has a soap opera quality, like Neighbors in its banality and ordinariness. Some dialog is clumsy and akin to adolescent expression in its deliberate use of image and metaphor but poorly written and the overall effect is inept. The voice over narrator is less accomplished, both unnecessary and questions the purpose of the drama as it fills in the back story of all the characters.
This is a stale and cliché borne infested production which has meretriciously yoked a great book in order to market itself and thereby disguise its defects and lack of artistic value. It didn't need a Russian novel at all; the old book serves no use at all because this is simply a modern adultery story which is really just day-time soap opera. The Russian writer Vladimir Nabokov had a Russian word for this: poshlost, which in English means, kitsch, pretentious rubbish.