Leo Tolstoy

I saw the film Last Station, which is about the final years of Leo Tolstoy.

It portrays the love between Tolstoy and his Countess wife beautifully, despite many stories that represent him as having gone crazy and leaving the family behind in his final years.

In the end, the desciples do succed in pulling Tolstoy away from his wife to give the Russian people his strong and clean message of equality. But in return, the Countess is devastated.

It was very human that while Tolstoy is godified as helping the movement of Russia freeing the serfs, etc., his wife is a Countess, therefore they fought seriously over ideals all the time. It resonated with me because even so, they both cared for and truly loved each other.

I felt that you don't need to pursue your ideals 100% to the point that you abandon someone (like how the desciples persuaded Tolstoy), because there is no such thing as a perfect world for all anyway, and the future will always be a balance with the contrasting ideas at the best.

Overall, the love story was very sentimental, and I may have been crying for a long time while watching. It is a nice Sunday afternoon movie.

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