Anna Karenina

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We all secretly dream that our marriages will last forever, that our golden anniversary will be celebrated among family members and friends, our children will look up to us, our grandchildren will put us on the pedestal and treat us as an example. Ideals are hard to follow and a lot wake up somewhere in the middle of a relationship, bored, loveless, exhausted and fed up with the state of affairs. And this is the time when even the most innocent and conservative might fall passionately in love. Why the consequences for a love affair are still tragic for women and men go unpunished for the same exact sin? Don't we all have the right for a happy ending between high expectations and the cruel intentions of our beloved? Why society is your biggest enemy in terms of judgment and hypocrisy? 
About 150 years ago Leo Tolstoy wrote Anna Karenina, adapted frequently for film and theatre. I present you with two recent film adaptations, one with Sophie Marceau (1997) the other with Keira Knightley (2012). Will the future one be as universal as these two or will there be a positive change for women and times will make the concept outdated? 



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On the nature of pictures

*Every Google image belongs to someone and this someone should be noted. However, if pictures are scenes from the film they most probably belong to owners of the film/producers. I use saved screens of the Google compilation of pictures, thus the pictures of pictures, which I take, cut and edit myself (as a derivative use). They are used for reviewing purposes (fair use), not for diminishing the films' profits by stealing what rightly belongs to them. Copyright is tricky, let's get used to it.