Doctor Zhivago

I recently caught Andrew Davies' version of Doctor Zhivago on Masterpiece Theatre; this is the version starring Hans Matheson and Keira Knightley. I had neither seen the original nor read Boris Pasternak's book which it is based on. I didn't know what to expect, except that it was some sort of romance. I was very disappointed by the time I finished viewing the 2-part miniseries. How can you call a married man (Yury) lusting after and having an affair with a woman (Lara) who is not his wife (Tonya) a good romance? Yury never should have married Tonya, whom he did not truly love. Tonya's life was a tragedy... to marry a man who didn't love her ... to raise their son Sasha on her own while her husband Yury went off to war to lust after Lara (his head nurse) ... to find out about his affair with Lara while she was pregnant with their second child no less! And Lara, well, she's no angel. She should never have seduced a married man.

Ironically, the actress who plays Lara is named Keira. The name Keira, or Kira, sounds like the name of a woman who would seduce a married man into lusting after her, even while the married man's wife is pregnant with his child. Married men should not lust after women who are not their wives, nor should they obsess about women they work with.

Sam Neill did a good job of portraying Komarovsky.

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