Love in Prague, the unbearable lightness of life

Franco 2022-04-19 09:02:33

His name is Thomas and he is a doctor. He took life lightly, and even had fun at work—he said to his patients: Take your clothes off. He saw Theresa, the bartender with the blush on her cheeks of a country girl, her beautiful figure wrapped in a heavy black swimsuit, swimming briskly past him.
Her name is Sabina and she is a painter. She believes that life should be light, along with work and love, light and light. She likes to wear a hat left by her grandfather and have sex in the mirror. What a joy! She doesn't want marriage.
She was Theresa, and her face was not as beautiful as Sabina's, but she had the flush of youth and health. She is shy and brave. She loves Thomas.



He and she moaned with joy at the 6 o'clock bell, and the day began. It was Sabina who knew Thomas best, from body to soul. They never sleep with anyone, including each other, only to see their intertwined bodies in the mirror, "like a monster".
Brave Teresa came to find him in Prague, but said she was just here to visit a friend—the same thing Teresa said many years later when she tried to cheat. She sneezed at him shamelessly, she was caught in the wind on the train, and he still said: Take your clothes off. He held her face like a doctor concentrating on examination, his eyes blurred, she was uneasy when he took off his coat, but he only leaned on her jade back to auscultate. However, her breathing began to be rapid, because his hand was already swimming in her short skirt. She finally ignored him and kissed him frantically. He was taken aback instead, but soon our old lover was burning love into bed...
His first time staying with a woman for the night.
He lost a lover because of it, but it didn't matter at least there was Sabina. Smart Sabina saw in the mirror Thomas, who was in love with a new lover, was looking at his watch during the climax. She quietly hid one of his socks. So Thomas had to wear one of Sabina's women's stockings. Thomas knew he was doing something stupid, no, not because he was wearing a woman's socks - but, he loved it. He said: Life is so light, and feelings are better.
The movie uses a long paragraph to describe a story that happened in a bar with friends such as Thomas, Theresa, Sabina, etc. Because this is almost a key that opened Thomas' new life: because the allusions of Oedipes that Thomas thought of in the bar became the reason for him to lose his job in the future; moreover, because he had to admit that he was a special The jealous Thomas finally decides to marry Teresa.
After marriage, Thomas is still romantic and uninhibited, and he can always meet different lovers. Teresa finally stopped taking it, and the war broke out. No one has time to take care of these little episodes, Teresa picked up the camera and rushed to the battlefield, Thomas kept her every step of the way to protect her. The war brought them back together again.
The war also made Sabina meet a new lover. He was cheerful, handsome, candid, and married.
However when he told her he was divorced. Sabina wept silently. It's moved, how much he loves her; it's disappointment, because he finally doesn't understand her; it's sadness, it's hurt to another woman.
All she wants is easy love, she doesn't want a heavy marriage. So she went, leaving him an empty room full of broken mirrors of her beautiful body. She loves mirrors, and mirrors love her. In the mirrors of all shapes is her seductive body in a black top hat.
Teresa, who lost her job, tried to photograph cacti and women nude, and the first model she chose was Sabina. She looked at her body with a bit of jealousy and even fear in her admiration, and she was helpless as she patted her. She knew that Thomas had stared at the same body once, and he had once traversed the same body. They parted with a loving kiss, and they understood and loved each other. They love the same man.
Sabina understood the pain of this woman, she finally decided to leave Thomas after a long time, even forever.
However, he didn't know that what he was going to face this time was the departure of two women, but no one worried him more than Tresha. After Thomas met Teresa again, the love scene, which was slow and then urgent, was a very moving expression of the happiness between the two of them who re-trusted each other and decided to cherish love. Only their pet dog watched the owner whisper each other's name for a long time in confusion.
But he still has a lover. In order to understand that he takes love very seriously and sex very lightly, she tries to cheat. Under a man he didn't know, she cried aggrieved, she regretted, she was afraid, she was worried about a man or even the policeman who cheated her.
So she would rather go back to the country with him.
Life is finally beginning to calm down. If it weren't for an accidental pub trip, they might end up like this. Yet it seems that where the story begins, it ends. Sabina receives a letter from "the most close friends" far away, and everything comes to an end.
As a passionate erotic movie, of course, there is no shortage of hot and lingering love scenes, but all of them make the characters' feelings more real and specific, show the relationship between characters and promote emotional development, and the understanding of characters and love is even more irreconcilable. lack of performance. No fuss about hypocrisy.
Although "Prague Love" is adapted from Milan Kundera's work "The Unbearable Lightness of Life", it is not as profound and timeless as the original. But the deep-eyed Danny Dee-Lewis is indeed the best choice for Thomas, and the heroine Juliet Binoche also brings the youthful, active and shy Theresa to life. In particular, the undercurrent of emotions in the film appropriately reproduces the language style in the original book. As director Philip Kaufman, he perfectly combines political morals and love stories, establishing himself as a master of Hollywood literary films.

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The Unbearable Lightness of Being quotes

  • Tereza: [referring to her dog] Karenin prefers Mephisto to dogs. She thinks other dogs are silly.

    Tomas: [Mephisto snorts and Tomas inhales the aroma of the food] Ha-ha.

    Pavel: Do you know why I love Mephisto? Because he's very bright, but, at the same time,

    [gesturing for emphasis]

    Pavel: he doesn't know anything! After all, he doesn't know that life is impossible here now. Nothing left here. The church is gone.

    [shrugging]

    Pavel: No place to drink beer now.

    [he drinks his bottle of beer very quickly]

    Pavel: It's good... very good.

    [slurping]

    Pavel: If you ever change your mind, it won't be easy to leave.

  • Tereza: I was forced to love my mother, but not this dog. You know, Tomas... maybe... maybe, I love her more than I love you. Not more. I mean in a better way. I'm not jealous of her. I don't want her to be different. I don't ask her for anything.