What differentiates Tolstoy, Victor Hugo, Dostoievsky from many writers is that their books are not only an artistic work, but have reflections, not being art for art, but art having a purpose. It is not limited only to entertain, but to teach.
In Anna Karenina, Tolstoy opposes the adulterous couple who are Anna and Vronsky with their model couple who are Kitty and Levin. Tolstoy was inspired by the suicide of adulteress Anna Stepanova Bibikov for the suicide of Anna who, full of guilt and regret for abandoning her son, kills herself. While Hollywood ignores even the logic of real life to create fantasy escapists for audiences like Isabella of France and Willian Wallace in Braveheart. They never met in real life.
Tolstoy, different from the garbage that is published today, does bring moralistic messages to reflect, that is why I value and criticize the promiscuous human conduct. Anna killed herself because of guilt, she could have been abandoned by Vronsky after he met a beautiful French girl and abandoned Anna. Remember Gwynplaine when he was seduced by Duchess Josiane in the man Who laughs, then regrets it. Ana simply regrets her choice and realizes that she made a bad choice when she was abandoned.
Love (1927) is from the tradition of great books turned into cheap feuilleton like The hunchback of Notre Dame (1923) that ignores Victor Hugo's messages about not trusting seducers like Esmeralda did with Phoebus for a cliché ending for the audience accustomed to feuilleton low quality and shallow.
The film ignores the messages and reflections of the book for a superficial "happy ending" for an audience not accustomed to reading classics, but pulp fictions.
Review of Love
