light and heavy

Dayne 2022-04-22 07:01:42

Why did Thomas choose Teresa to marry? What I'm trying to say is probably excusing Thomas' way of life. Thomas should have a lot of lovers, such as Sabina. He and them are in a state of no nostalgia for each other. It can be said that they are evenly matched and each gets what they need. However, Teresa appeared, and Teresa was a pure surrender. Thomas had to marry her because it was only here that he felt needed and attached, and if he rejected her, he was rejecting the fragile passing beauty of all her beauty, and he was not a loveless prodigal, just the His instinct for the ultimate pleasure gave him the need to grasp this beauty.

Many interpretations are superficial. If the truth of this film is that "a woman's life is run through by love", each audience will substitute themselves into Teresa and suffer between the so-called lightness and weight of love. So how does this principle apply to Thomas? Does Thomas not pursue love? He also pursued it, otherwise he would not have married Teresa. "Light" and "heavy" do not mean that love is very heavy for women and light for men, but light and heavy, which are different effects caused by people's different concepts of how to deal with a thing in the current time and space . For example, "I have a lover who wants to separate from me." The same thing can be light for one person and heavy for another.

It can be both light and heavy for the next person, such as Karenin's euthanasia, which is of course painful for Teresa, but also a little lighter because it can help reduce Karenin's pain.

The most interesting thing is that life seems very light to Tomas, wandering in all kinds of people-to-people connections, without any attachment. But Tomas may also have his own weight, and that weight may be the same as what Teresa feels, just in different things, such as "being left".

It's a little regretful that I didn't go to Prague after watching Prague Love, but some movies don't need to be watched very early, because maybe they can't understand it. Seeing the heavy rain, I really want to go back to my childhood, but even if I live again, I will still make mistakes where I should make mistakes.

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  • Mable 2022-03-25 09:01:14

    8.2 I finally understand why the translated title is Prague Love instead of the unbearable lightness of life in the original work. The whole film omits the topic of lightness and heaviness in only two scenes, and the thoughts on spirit and flesh also disappear. The film copied the plot of the original book but cut down a lot of details. The length problem is indeed true, but the amazing Karenin smile of the original book ended in such a hasty way. It is still unacceptable. It's purely story-oriented, but Sabina's characterization is even better than Teresa's, while Thomas with Lewis looks a little lewd on screen. The photography style of the first half of the Soviet invasion is great, the whole sense of substitution and beauty comes out spontaneously

  • Elmer 2022-03-28 09:01:07

    6.5 points. It is estimated that this is another film that makes Xiaoqingxin extremely excited, but unfortunately I do not catch a cold at all. It's not that two women rob a man, it's not impossible to shoot, someone else's "Doctor Zhigova" can be made into an epic, and here it becomes three dogs and men and women who make trouble all day long. Come on, what you are showing is the big incident of the Soviet Union's invasion of the Czech Republic, a little self-conscious, okay?

The Unbearable Lightness of Being quotes

  • Sabina: I really like you, Tomas. You are the complete opposite of kitsch. In the kingdom of kitsch you would be a monster.

  • Tomas: You can sleep. Sleep in my arms. Like a baby bird. Like a broom among brooms... in a broom closet. Like a tiny parrot. Like a whistle. Like a little song. A song sung by a forest... within a forest... a thousand years ago.