Spontaneous Musings

I very much agree with what you say about Anna Karenina. I did read the book a long time ago, so might think differently now, but for what it's worth I thought that Levin and Kitty were perfect, and even more so Anna's brother, but the three main characters(Anna, Karenin, and Vronsky) all seem very different from the characters in the book. Anna in the book is a little more ditzy than Knightley's Anna, though equally self-absorbed. Vronsky in the book isn't so strikingly young, and seems more of an old-fashioned cad than the movie one, who's kind of a sweet kid (even if thoughtless in some ways). Jude Law really was the amazing one to me--his Karenin was very sympathetic, much in contrast to Tolstoy's.