Love in Prague--Analyzing the light and heavy
dark rooms and lonely scenes of life, I carefully stuffed "Love in Prague" into the disc player, using the strangeness and curiosity of the first intimate contact to speculate on the movie, Because I haven't read Milan Kundera's classic novel. Three hours in length, a floating and touching atmosphere of love accompanied by beautiful music is endless, and the senses from the beginning to the end are shrouded in the elegant and beautiful music. Czech composer Leos Janáček’s " The violin concerto in "Fairy Tales: Third Movement" is sometimes passionate, sometimes melancholy and weeping. The emotion and carnal desire between the hero and the heroine in the music and the low-key light and shadow brings eternal migraine to every audience who enters the thinking process. .
Just like in Stefanie Sun's "Meeting": "I met you is the most beautiful accident. One day, my mystery will be revealed." All love begins when I meet. Doctor Thomas looks handsome and is a hunter. Master. Teresa is a simple girl. In the misty bathroom in the hotel, Thomas saw Teresa like a hibiscus in the plump body of a large old man, and Meiman’s figure immediately attracted this charming and polite person. The result of the encounter between the two became obvious in the face of the huge gap in social experience. Thomas chases to the bar where Teresa works, and meets with him to chat after get off work. Teresa was seduced by this handsome man, and the seeds of love have adapted to planting like spring. Once a mortal encounters love, he will become crazy, lose his reason, and have a sharp decline in behavioral thinking ability. The persistent Teresa desperately came to Prague to meet Thomas and married him in a flash. In any case, at least in Teresa's heart, she has found the love she thinks is true love, and the man with the same ring on her hand is her lifelong support. But Thomas has never been a man willing to stick to love in his bones. In his heart, apart from love, there is still a lot of room for wandering, that is desire. In his almost transparent blue eyes, sly, slutty, and melancholy, he was still searching for prey, continuing to linger with his old lover Sabina, turning a blind eye to Teresa's love. Finally one day, Forbearance Teresa broke out. She said frantically and imploringly, "Will you take me next time you go to find a woman? I will help them undress and take a bath, so that their bodies will become The plaything of the two of us!” Although Teresa knew very well that Thomas’ relationship with those women was only physical, she didn’t want to become a physical body like other women. What she wanted was special love, not like other women. Those are just dolls. It is exclusive to oneself! The one and only love is the true love. This is the love Teresa wants.
Just as the love between Thomas and Tereza was about to be ruined, a coup took place in Prague, the Soviet Union invaded, and the whole city suddenly fell into panic and blood. But under this turbulent environment, Teresa found the true meaning of life. She became a war correspondent, and began to travel through the gunfire to record the cruel nightmare of Prague with cameras, from beginning to end. , It was her husband Thomas who followed her to protect. The two squeezed to and fro in the rioting crowd. Thomas’ eyes always followed Teresa's movement. When she disappeared a little bit, we could be there. He found a message called anxiety in his eyes. Undoubtedly, this coup brought an incredible turn for this perilous love, and the relationship between the two seems to have improved.
The war became increasingly fierce and it was no longer possible to stay in Prague. Thomas and Theresa had to flee to Geneva, Switzerland. When they crossed the border, the two sat in the car and took a meaningful look behind them. Behind them, there are ruins. In Prague in the whistle smoke, in the fog of death, it seems that the flowers blooming in love between the two people can be seen. In Switzerland, life is not easy for two people, and Teresa's work is not guaranteed. Thomas found his former lover Sabina in Geneva and had sex with him. When Thomas returned to the residence again, he was surprised to find that his wife had left a letter and returned to Prague again. Instead of leaving, it was better to escape. Facing the resurgence of Thomas’ old feelings, Teresa chose to turn a blind eye and leave. The huge sense of emptiness caused Thomas to fall into the lonely spiral nest. After some thinking, he once again returned to Prague to find Teresa. Although he retrieved Teresa again, it was because of his previous reactionary remarks. After losing his job, he had to become a washing worker, Teresa also returned to work in the bar, and their lives went on peacefully under the flames of war. However, Thomas’s peace of mind was once again because of the need of the flesh. But he throbbed again, facing the rebuke of his wife's crying, he was speechless. Teresa was painful and numb in the game of constant suspicion, and completely lost the confidence to return Thomas’ love. The next day, Teresa made a crazy move. This kind-hearted woman found someone who had helped in the bar. She passed her engineer and had a physical relationship with her. The pitiful thing was that she did not enjoy happiness, but fell into a kind of fear and anxiety. She clenched her hands while making love, and the tears from the corners of her eyes shed silently. Standing by the misty river, Teresa felt extremely tired because of the blankness in front of her eyes. She begged Thomas to leave Prague together. Everything in front of her made her feel uneasy, and she needed to really calm down. The two people found a former patient of Thomas and settled down on a peaceful farm, under the bright sun, on the vast fields, under the blue sky and white clouds, the puppy and piglet rolled in a ball, Teresa sludge in the orchard with one hand Working, Thomas in the distance drove a plowing tractor rumbling, quiet land, mysterious dusk, simple life. A beautiful paradise landscape, intoxicating happiness reflects double shadows in the sun.
There are always two problems with movies adapted from novels. It is not that the movie covers the details and ignores the theme, or it highlights the center and loses the detailed layout. "Love in Prague" belongs to the latter type. This film The director of Philip Kaufman is very good at extracting the most publicized themes from the novel. In his previous work "Love in June Flower", it shows love and desire, and "Quiet Pen" is the soul and the flesh. , Is the most important part of the original novel. And Kaufman’s "Love in Prague" mainly expresses the lightness and weight of life, which is different from the profound and solemn way of exposition in the novel. Kaufman simply uses Thomas and Theresa’s The long and warlike love tells us the answer to this philosophical question. At first, Teresa’s feelings for Thomas were pure love and dependence at first. But after the conflict of war and the changes in Switzerland, she woke up. She was no longer the dependent silly girl who was crazy looking for love alone, but a thinking woman. When she found her husband and lover met in Geneva again, She took the puppy and left Thomas resolutely. The letter left to Thomas reads like this: "I know I should try my best to help you, but I can't do it now. Not only did I not become your support, I became Your burden, life is so heavy for me, but it is so easy for you, my life can't bear this kind of lightness, this kind of freedom!" This Teresa monologue said, The theme of the movie is also very clear: what is the unbearable lightness of life. In Teresa’s view, the lightness of her life is Thomas’ sexual indulgence. After returning to Prague, Teresa discovered another derailment by Thomas. She said this: I know you are just physical indulgence. You can Separating love and sex, but I don't believe that you can go to bed without love. It is a light thing for you. I also want to try. "For Teresa, the entanglement of the body is the unbearable lightness in her life. This lightness is the lightness in Thomas's soul. This lightness hits the most vulnerable part of Teresa's life. Acceptable. Teresa’s love with the engineer made her feel this deeply. Panicked and regretted, she stood alone by the misty river, and the whole Prague became hazy in her eyes. There are still tears in the corners of his eyes, endless regrets and grievances appear on his beautiful face, and a heart that feels like being lashed out in pain. There is such a sentence in Kundera’s novel: " Thomas suddenly remembered the famous hypothesis in Plato's "The Meeting of Drinks": the original people are both sexes. God splits people into two, and all this half roams the world. Look for the other half. Love is the half of ourselves we long for that we have lost. "What is light and what is heavy, who is resisting, who is bearing it, and why is what she can't bear in her life is insignificant in his eyes? The movie actually gave us a good window, thinking carefully, and the answer naturally surfaced. .
"Love in Prague" photographed by Philip Kaufman may be only a small part of Milan Kundera’s novels, but it is this small part that is left for us to think about when it is turned into an image and presented in front of us, like The endless mirrors in the movie are within reach but they are as cold as the others. At the end of the movie, Thomas, Tereza and their friends came to the small shop to drink and dance. They didn’t know that their lives would end the next morning. They were partying, drinking, and dancing at the end. Dance, one of the most fascinating scenes in the movie appeared. When Tereza seemed to be a little drunk and walked towards Thomas, her loving eyes and happy love were revealed on her face. Thomas hugged her and walked towards the hotel. Room No. 6 corresponds to the chance that the two were in the small town at the beginning of the movie. The last shot, which looks unusually quiet, is the most shocking. The fuzzy middle and small road stretches indefinitely under the wheels, without end. The camera moved more and more slowly. Tereza looked at Thomas sweetly. Thomas looked at Tereza with a smile. She whispered in his ear and asked Thomas, what are you thinking about? Thomas continued his charming smile, just looking into the distance faintly, without saying a word, the happy love has been engraved in the hearts of the two people, and it will never be extinguished, even if the notes of life come to an abrupt end, even if the happiness is so hard to come by, It's so easy to pass away, but it will always last forever...
PS; look at the thing I wrote before, sweat is like rain, ha ha~
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