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Anna Karenina ( 2012 film) summary by Jitu Das

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy is a great novel about love and relationship. Its about passion and duties. It is about idealism, adultry and Russia. It is also one of the greatest novel in the world which could make you think about love once again and about how people change their life. The main characters are Anna Karenina, Stiva, Alexender, Alexi Vronsky,Dolly, Levin.
Anna is the wife of a minister who devoted his life to Russia, among people he is well respected, to the people he is like a saint. He is well mannered, he believes in god and forgiveness. But he was not as passionate as Alexi Vronsky who was young, who worked in military. Anna was not satisfied with her husband but she never knew that she could get what she needed untill she met Alexi in a ball. Anna came to Moscow to solve the marriage trouble between his brother Stiva and Dolly caused because of Stiva's adultry with the governess. But Anna convince Dolly to forgive Stiva and Stiva never changes. In a ball Anna met Alexi and they dance, which brings public attention because Anna was a married woman. Anna leaves Moscow and Alexi follows her to Petersburg. Alexi proposes his love and Anna could not help herself to resist the temptation of this love offered to her. Then there was nothing in morale that mattered to them, they were damned for what sweet love they had !
Meanwhile Levin comes to meet his old friend Stiva for the advice on the occassion to propose his love to Kitty, Stiva's sister in law. Levin is man of himself, he is an idealist in somethings, he is a wealthy land owner in the country area but he treats the people well. He believes in simple living but he was in love with Kitty, who was 18,beautiful, kind girl. When Levin proposed to Kitty, she said no because she hoped to marry Count Alexei Vronsky. Who fell in love with Anna.
After the Levin's failure in love , he visits his brother Nikolai, who have given up all his inheritence, he was an extremist, he believed in equality of people, he also regarded a prostitute named Masha his wife who took care of his degrading health because he drank too much vodka. Nikolai even asks Levin to marry one of his peasant girl.
Levin leaves the city, for which he had never much taste and returns home. He starts to work with his people and mows. Levin asks an old peasant who was owned by his father, but Levin never treated his peasants as such about how it could the grace of god that he is the master of them, Levin had his doubts about god and how he works. He buys new lands in the country. Meanwhile Stiva visits Levin at the country telling him that Kitty and Alexei are no longer going to be married.One misty morning Levin sees beautiful Kitty passing by road and returns to Moscow again to meet Kitty. Stiva arranges the meeting. Kitty says to Levin that she was foolish and silly. Kitty had changed after the heartbreak, she often talked to her sister Dolly she would never marry. But when seing Levin, as such a good man who only loved her she said Levin that she loves him. In the dinner Levin said that he believed in pure love and to love a married woman is a greed, a gluttony. People at the dinner table loughs calling him an idealist and Kitty nows falls in love with him completely.

While Levin was talking about pure love, for Anna love of Alexei was all that mattered above her husband, son and society. Was there any difference between adultry of Stiva and Anna. Anna loved only Vronsky while Stiva never loved only one. But society treated Anna badly and no one talked about Stiva maybe even Anna herself convinced Dolly to forgive him before.

Alexei's mother never approved of his relatipnship as no mother would, who was hoping that Alexei would marry young princess Sorokina. But this plan haunts Anna that she would lose Vronsky. This fear leads her to behave rudely to Vronsky and when Anna goes to opera, people starts to whisper about her scandals, which does eventually breaks her and when oneday princess Sorokina picks up Vronsky when his mother called for him, Anna feels like she lost him and gets frustrated by on her own, then she drinks laudanum, a tincture of opium and leaves the house and gets on train doubting his love to see if Vronsky went to see his mother or not. On the train she hallucinates about Vronsky and Princess Sorokina making passionate love. On the last station she loses her reasons and dies when she jumps under upcoming train saying god forgive me !.

Meanwhile Levin marries Kitty and takes her to country estate, where he finds his brother Nikolai and Masha staying there. Levin fears that Kitty would not like Masha staying there because she comes from such elite family. But what Kitty did was very surprising.She helped Masha in nursing Nikolai without hesitating which showed how great woman she was even though she came from such rich family.
One day mowing the field, Levin asks the old peasant about how does someone knows what is rightly. The old peasant says that one just knows it. Levin tells him that he believe in reasons, then the old peasant asked Levin about what reason he chose his wife. Then Levin realizes something and comes home, holds his baby and tells Kitty he understands. Kitty asks, "what do you understand ?" Levin says nothing.

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One flew over the cuckoo's nest film reviews &summary by Jitu Das film reviews

Just watched the "One flew over the cuckoo's nest (1975) film and it is really disappointing. The title gives you so much hope and spirit to fly but in the end that was all for nothing. This film is one of the most tragic film I have ever seen. The hindi film Kyon ki was inspired by this film.

This film is completely opposite of the great and my most favourite "Shawshank redemption". The tragedy of a story touches you and passes on to you a fraction of it and there is no escaping from it if you are a sensitive person.

What this movie is all about ?

I do not know much about the hidden meanings, if there is in the novel. But I do know that the death of Randle Patrick "Mac" McMurphy does not make the film great, but the hopes that McMurphy was rising in me in the begining. I thought that he will fly( escape) from the cuckoo's nest ( Mental institution), but he was not the one, but mountain sized Chief, who was pretending to be mute and deaf escapes after smothering lobotomized McMurphy with the pillow. I do not understand what McMurphy wanted to achieve there in the first place rather than going to jail. Was it a fun idea for him to go in mental institute ? I do not know
may be he did not know that mental institutes are not like jail or hospital, it is a trap and no one should ever play with that. That was the biggest mistake he did, I think. To play with sanity is only for the movies and theaters but not in real life.
Anyway, there the mean nurse Mildred, a devil woman who manipulates the patients by her inhuman behaviour, yes she is the woman who can not feel,she has no love, no kindness.

It actually shocked me to watch a woman like nurse Mildred, she is the most scary woman I have ever seen, even the ghosts women are not that scary. Who blackmails young Billy that she would tell his mother that he made love to Candy, brought by McMurphy, on the night, McMurphy planned to escape by making the guard, Mr.Turkle drunk. I do not know, why but in the morning nurse Mildred finds the hospital like a night club, and McMurphy sleeping on the floor next to the window, through which they were planning to escape. But still, on the morning he would have escaped because he punched one guard. When Nurse Ratched discovers young Billy sleeping with Candy, she blackmails him that he did a wrong thing by making love to that girl. Billy who is absurdly afraid of his mother, he even tried to commit suicide before when he fell in love. I wonder what a evil mother he had. But this time when the most evil woman Mildred blackmailed him that she would tell about it to his mother, Billy gave up on his life. Meanwhile McMurphy was trying to unlock the window with keys, and punched a guard. Billy gets afraid and he starts stuttering again, then in the office he cuts his throat with a broken class, while McMurphy was attempting to escape through the window, then a nurse shouts and comes out of the office with blood on her white nurse uniform, everybody rushes to the room, even the guard who was stopping McMurphy and Chief from escaping, but then again, McMurphy does not escape, rather he comes back and tries to strangle nurse Ratched, then a guard hits McMurphy on the head. McMurphy becomes captive again, he was lobotomized (
It consists of cutting or scraping away most of the connections to and from the prefrontal cortex, the anterior part of the frontal lobes of the brain.) Lobotomy is one of the worst, evil, inhuman discovery of science. The irony is that the originator of the procedure was given the great big Nobel prize in the field of Physiology of medicine on 1949, I guess at that time Hitler was not the only bad thing that happened.

This is why you can not let the scientists rule the world. We have the general idea that the benefits of science are great, the scientists are also great and good men. But are all scientists good people ? Then why such inhuman discovery was credited with nobel prize ?