I knew about the movie "Prague Love" because a friend told me when I mentioned in a community that I was reading the book "The Unbearable Lightness of Being."
I love this book so much because I think the life he wants to describe is the life I want - Thomas' carefree attitude, Sabina's bohemianism, Teresa's pragmatism and Franz's The enthusiasm of the characters has left a deep impression on me, not only because of the characters' characters and their uniqueness, but also because of their attitude towards life.
In the original book "The Unbearable Lightness of Life", Thomas, as a representative of "lightness", his life has never been defeated by the world, his body and soul are separated, he keeps his soul to himself, and Returning the body to God, in sex with different women again and again, what he wants to obtain is not all a kind of physical pleasure, but a unique beauty.
Yes, Thomas calls this search a kind of beauty. He can always find their unique qualities in different women. In the movie "Prague Love", Thomas regards Sabina's beauty as a symbol, while The surrogate for this symbol is a hat, so you will find that Thomas looks at Sabina with interest and tells her: I like the way you wear the hat.
Thomas' attitude towards life is to seek. He is unwilling to confine himself to a woman. Every woman is a new world for him. In the process of this search, he experiences a sense of pleasure and conquest. , he is life is so light that he doesn't even care about himself.
Like Thomas, Sabina's philosophy of life is feminist. When Sabina met Franz, she had sex with him, largely to satisfy her own physical needs, she longed for a person, Desires for new things, so in the story, Sabina never stays in one place for too long, because her life is too light, and she needs this change to accept her own lightness.
When Franz saw Sabina again and said that he would go with her, Sabina was very moved, but she finally chose to move away from Franz, why is this?
Sabina's life has abandoned "heavy", and family and children mean this kind of weight to her. Franz chose a divorce for her. She was moved by Franz's efforts, but it could not be destroyed by it. her own life, so in the end she chose to leave Franz.
Thomas did not evade the weight of life, and it was getting heavier and heavier. The appearance of Teresa made Thomas' eyes shine. He was far more interested in her than in her body - when the physical communication passed to Spiritually, love occurs.
Love is actually very simple, he is just a hint of spirit, Thomas is deep until this point, but Teresa's "heavy" overwhelms him, Thomas loves Teresa, he doesn't want to lose her, but Also unwilling to lose his chance to explore other women, he wants to keep his "lightness", but Teresa rejects his "lightness".
Teresa's "heavy" comes from the influence of her own family. Her deep-rooted marriage thought imprisoned the light part of her thoughts. She couldn't accept Thomas' behavior of looking for a sexual partner again and again, and finally chose to leave him.
So, what is Teresa for Thomas?
Thomas' love for Teresa is actually a kind of love from the heart, a pure "light" love. Thomas's soul belongs to himself. He dominates the love for Teresa's soul, while the body The communication between them made the love between them more intense. In this love, Thomas combined lightness and coincidence into one, and changed himself for Teresa.
Even when Teresa left him and returned to Prague, Thomas chose to pursue her and find her. Thomas loved Teresa emotionally, but the way he loved was too "light". As for Teresa, she couldn't understand.
So what about Sabina's love, who does Sabina love?
Sabina loves no one, Sabina's life is so short that she is unwilling to leave her traces anywhere, even in the meeting with Thomas, Sabina never misses him, They are more of an emotional sympathy, because Sabina and Thomas are actually a kind of people, they are both representatives of "lightness", they hate being static, hate traditional ideas, hate kitsch.
But in fact Sabina's life is not completely light, just like Thomas's life, Thomas chose to accept the "heavy" in life for Teresa, thus accepting the arrangement of fate, making them wandering until death. Sabina's life has always been emotional. While the story tells about Sabina's life, it also reveals a point of view from time to time, that is: life is light, but it is also extremely heavy.
Sabina's "lightness" needless to say, her weight is actually shown many times in novels and movies. When she met the divorced Franz standing in front of her, she cried and was moved by his sincerity , but she ultimately did not choose to leave with Franz, mostly because she knew she was not suitable for a life that was too "heavy".
In the finale, when she heard the news that Teresa and Thomas were both killed, Sabina was also very sad, and it was difficult to restrain her sadness, because emotionally, she could not be a person who was "light" to the extreme , her friend exists under the big proposition of life and is controlled by fate, she will be touched, but there is nothing she can do.
So in the final analysis, Sabina's lightness is only a part. There is also "heavy" in her life, but the proportion of the latter is much smaller than that of the former.
The film is more pragmatic in conception than the novel, focusing on the life attitude and life philosophy of several protagonists, while in the novel, most of them describe the inner world of the characters. In contrast, the strength of the novel is to Much bigger than the movie, the lightness of Thomas and Sabina, and the weight of Teresa and Franz, all illustrate a problem, that is, how to "sustain" life.
While accepting the weight of life, we must also understand the light part of life. Life is so cruel, there are not many things that can be endured, but some things are beyond your control.
It was a coincidence that Thomas met Teresa, and this coincidence affected his life.
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