Anna Karenina

11/3-Week2 Life is a performance; Society forces people, women in particular, to focus so much on how that look and act in public. This film draws the connection between life and the stage by staging most of the film in a theatre, on the stage as if it where being performed for theatre. The music and choreography that underpin some scenes add another layer to this performance that is life. When Anna Karenina ruins here façade (performance) she finds that she is no longer accepted as everyone can see a glimpse of her private life.