Others found it too stately and too bloodless. She humiliates her earnest husband Karenin (Jude Law) and is turn spurned by him. Knightley expertly depicts the transformation in Anna's character: how she at first flirts with the cavalry officer and is flattered by his attention but then how she soon becomes utterly in thrall to him. Then Vronsky begins his aggressive courtship. She advises her sister-in-law Dolly (Kelly Macdonald) to stay loyal to her husband Oblonsky in spite of his philandering ways and gives Dolly's younger sister advice about how to behave at the ball. When we first see her, she is self-assured and seemingly worldly-wise. Knightley excels as the beautiful socialite whose destructive love affair with Count Vronsky leads eventually to her ruin and suicide. He has talked about the film as portraying love in all its manifestations.
Wright has taken a stylised approach to his material, setting the majority of the film in a theatre on the grounds that the Russian aristocrats "were living their lives as if they were on a stage". Rereading the book in preparation for playing Anna on screen in Joe Wright's new film, Knightley was struck by the sheer animosity that the Russian author had for the heroine of his novel. "My God, he hates her!" Keira Knightley observes of Tolstoy's attitude toward Anna Karenina.
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