She had an affair and is pregnant with the other man's child, what did she expect her husband to do? "Here, bring your lover to our home and I'll just step out of the picture? Take our son and go be happy?"
1:10, did I hear that right or completely misinterpret that? It sounded like, "You do it with him, why not with your husband?" What was that little outburst, I sort of missed it I think.
I started watching this thinking her husband was dull and didn't love Anna but I was completely wrong. He's a good man and he's very wise. I'm not saying that what Anna is doing is okay but what her husband did for her... i can't even wrap my head around it.
i think anna wants too much of her husbend, he may not love her in the way she would like, but she can hardly expect him to be ok with her cheating and having someone else's child and bringing the other man into the house like that. she should think about the consequences for his and the child's future if such a crime was to be known by their society at the time
Adultery, cheat are wrong. I get compasion about Anna, I think is a terrible thing be married to someone no loved but, for each action there is a reaction, consequences. People who cheats must think in this, nothing is free, everything has a consequence.
I think Anna was strong and had a lot of backbone. She went against the rules and began a sexual relationship with a man out of her wedlock. It was pretty much normal for men to keep a mistress yet if the wife cheated on the husband she was cast out among many other horrid things. I like the fact she fought against what society thought for the wants of her heart.
@joshstoph I agree. they are trying to show how noble, simple, and good a peasant's life is compared to the hollow life of the aristocracy. I tire of that theme.
I can't watch anymore. turgid. I can't see why this Anna would fall for Vronksy and why this Anna hates Karenin (who is likeable?) In the novel (and the 1997 movie, which I think is superior), Karenin is hateful and rigid.
@ShakespeareHamlet this production of anna karenina is so oddly done. it seems that pbs is trying to make a statement about women's victimization by a male dominated society. it misses the point of the story I think.
@griwstyle according to the regulations of the time, a woman was not allowed to get a divorce so it was impossible for anna to divorce his legal husband.
i'm halfway in tears.... her husband is such a bastard! i HATE him! she's pregnant, and the child isn't his, and she loves another man, why keep her there?
do you even understand what you're saying? this was the 1800s, besides adultery was wrong then and it's wrong now, her husband could have reacted much differently, and so would my husband if i was cheating on him and having some other man's child!!! marriage is meant to be forever, not good enough until you find another man that makes you horny...maybe her husband doesn't sit around all day & confess his love for her nonstop, he loves her his own way..but what do i know...
Ok, so yes, what she did was on every level wrong, wrong, WRONG, but we all know marriage is rarely forever now, and even then people split apart. He did what he did for looks, for social status. He loved her, yes, but not as a wife, more as a.... Trophy. And when I posted that, I hadn't seen the whole movie, so my feelings are obviously different than that now.
@albania1980 Anna's and Karenin's marriage was problematic from the start. They essentially married because they were expected to. Karenin was too old to be unmarried and Anna was an eligible young girl who needed to be married. They essentially live as roommates and their marriage is quite dead. They don't discuss things, don't talk to eachother, and they certainly aren't sleeping with eachother. It takes Anna's near death for them to realize that they do love eachother in their way.
@albania1980 And there is the fact that in the book he is a very honest man that wants to leads a good life. The fact of Anna cheating him has nothing to do with the fact that is is not lovable. He is not lovable for her.
She had an affair and is pregnant with the other man's child, what did she expect her husband to do? "Here, bring your lover to our home and I'll just step out of the picture? Take our son and go be happy?"
diamondnora 2 weeks ago
1:10, did I hear that right or completely misinterpret that? It sounded like, "You do it with him, why not with your husband?" What was that little outburst, I sort of missed it I think.
Demithegoddess 1 month ago in playlist Anna Karenina
I started watching this thinking her husband was dull and didn't love Anna but I was completely wrong. He's a good man and he's very wise. I'm not saying that what Anna is doing is okay but what her husband did for her... i can't even wrap my head around it.
kiminji100 2 months ago
@kiminji100 I'm right with you. Compare this to the awful Othello who kills someone he claimed to love and it turned out he was very wrong.
Now here, Karenin's wife IS cheating on him. And she's being spiteful to him at that. And yet here he stands calmly keeping control of his emotions.
Neither Karenin nor Dolly deserved the pain their spouses gave them.
And Anna and Vronsky are indifferent to the pain they caused the guiltless Kitty.
eternalhalloween1 2 months ago
7:58 REJECTED
woodmaster413 7 months ago
The adultery issue in this story makes me want to be sick. More than ever i wish adultery was punishable as a crime.
JFDA5458 11 months ago
i think anna wants too much of her husbend, he may not love her in the way she would like, but she can hardly expect him to be ok with her cheating and having someone else's child and bringing the other man into the house like that. she should think about the consequences for his and the child's future if such a crime was to be known by their society at the time
parisgala 1 year ago 3
Adultery, cheat are wrong. I get compasion about Anna, I think is a terrible thing be married to someone no loved but, for each action there is a reaction, consequences. People who cheats must think in this, nothing is free, everything has a consequence.
analizluna 1 year ago 8
I think Anna was strong and had a lot of backbone. She went against the rules and began a sexual relationship with a man out of her wedlock. It was pretty much normal for men to keep a mistress yet if the wife cheated on the husband she was cast out among many other horrid things. I like the fact she fought against what society thought for the wants of her heart.
Photofly89 1 year ago 6
Why in the world did they add this part with Levin dancing and kissing? I don't recall that being in the book?
joshstoph 1 year ago 4
@joshstoph I agree. they are trying to show how noble, simple, and good a peasant's life is compared to the hollow life of the aristocracy. I tire of that theme.
steventhestudent 1 year ago 3
@joshstoph me neither! I was trying to recall if it had happened but nope.
dreamybear1 1 month ago
I don't find Karenin hateful or rigid in the novel. (See Part Four, Chapter XIX) Anna is a petulant, self absorbed child.
ladyinyellowshoes 1 year ago 5
I can't watch anymore. turgid. I can't see why this Anna would fall for Vronksy and why this Anna hates Karenin (who is likeable?) In the novel (and the 1997 movie, which I think is superior), Karenin is hateful and rigid.
ShakespeareHamlet 2 years ago
@ShakespeareHamlet this production of anna karenina is so oddly done. it seems that pbs is trying to make a statement about women's victimization by a male dominated society. it misses the point of the story I think.
steventhestudent 1 year ago 2
she was meant to be with Vronsky,and normal women would leave her huspand and be happy in a new life
griwstyle 2 years ago
@griwstyle according to the regulations of the time, a woman was not allowed to get a divorce so it was impossible for anna to divorce his legal husband.
alphanokoko 1 year ago
@griwstyle Would normal woman also leave her child?
kavtoM 1 year ago 3
i'm halfway in tears.... her husband is such a bastard! i HATE him! she's pregnant, and the child isn't his, and she loves another man, why keep her there?
butterflygottafly 2 years ago
do you even understand what you're saying? this was the 1800s, besides adultery was wrong then and it's wrong now, her husband could have reacted much differently, and so would my husband if i was cheating on him and having some other man's child!!! marriage is meant to be forever, not good enough until you find another man that makes you horny...maybe her husband doesn't sit around all day & confess his love for her nonstop, he loves her his own way..but what do i know...
albania1980 2 years ago 21
Ok, so yes, what she did was on every level wrong, wrong, WRONG, but we all know marriage is rarely forever now, and even then people split apart. He did what he did for looks, for social status. He loved her, yes, but not as a wife, more as a.... Trophy. And when I posted that, I hadn't seen the whole movie, so my feelings are obviously different than that now.
butterflygottafly 2 years ago 3
@albania1980 I so agree with you. Just because he doesn't love her the way she wants doesn't mean he doesn't love her with all his heart (c).
HermannV08 1 year ago 2
@albania1980 Anna's and Karenin's marriage was problematic from the start. They essentially married because they were expected to. Karenin was too old to be unmarried and Anna was an eligible young girl who needed to be married. They essentially live as roommates and their marriage is quite dead. They don't discuss things, don't talk to eachother, and they certainly aren't sleeping with eachother. It takes Anna's near death for them to realize that they do love eachother in their way.
Cybele1986 11 months ago 3
@albania1980 And there is the fact that in the book he is a very honest man that wants to leads a good life. The fact of Anna cheating him has nothing to do with the fact that is is not lovable. He is not lovable for her.
brunofujii 7 months ago 2
What song is it that Nikolai plays?
LunaLT 2 years ago
@LunaLT I want to know too. I'm guessing it's Bach.,
IseultCharms 1 year ago