The old Prince Bolkonsky also is terrific. In my view, Denisov, though a minor character, is particularly brought to life. Each performance seems true to Tolstoy's characterizations, if not the idealizations people have conjured in their minds. As far as the casting goes, I personally thought Sonya was a little too plain, Princess Marya a little too attractive, and Pierre rather too skinny, but these physical quibbles are nitpicky. This adaptation captures brilliantly Tolstoy's view of how terrible the course of human interaction can run, and yet there is something magical to life. My God, I can only imagine that these reviewers would be better off watching Barney and Friends. Others seem to be aghast that there's infidelity, violence, and dishonesty. We are meant to see that in the end, the foolishness shouldn't matter.
Tolstoy meant for us to see how the lives of admirable men and women are yet filled with foolishness. Some of the reviewers seem to have gotten in their head that Prince Andrey or Natasha should be like gods and goddesses when Tolstoy could not have intended anything farther from that. War and Peace is a story of mortals, fallible, corrupt, and yet full of love and hope. The poor reviews that I've seen seem to betray either delusion or a complete misunderstanding of the book.
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