Life is a light trio

Lolita 2022-03-21 09:02:39

It was unexpected for me to turn this novel into such a good movie. The novel is like a trio, telling the life in the eyes of three people. Thomas' life was always so light that he couldn't feel it himself, except when he was on a woman, he could still feel the breath of life. For Teresa, life has always been so heavy. Interspersed in the middle is the drifting light Sabina. I believe that for most people, life may be the overlap of their three shadows. We watched Thomas cross the brink of life, experienced Teresa's deep fears and nightmares, and sometimes imitated Sabine, who decorated herself with grandpa's hat, looked at herself in the mirror, and didn't know what she wanted. Na. . . I looked at them with sadness in my heart.

In the movie, the deepest impression is a brisk, somewhat comical piece of music, like a violin. The music tells the absurdities and paradoxes of life in a comical tone. It was while watching the movie that I first learned about the humor in Milan Kundera's long-standing novels. It was the music that made me look at this novel from such a high place for the first time. In Kundera, both Rabelais and Kafka are masters of humor, and those who elevate the absurdity of life to the comic are the great novelists.

The most powerful part of the film is that it captures the musical sense of the novel. I am sure that Kundera, like a composer, treats a chapter of the novel as a movement to create. When his sense of rhythm and melody was presented in the film, I was in awe of the director. As for the color, I just remember the white fog full of hints, is it chaos or the moist and fresh air? Contain Trisha and Thomas Smile. Maybe, and the expression, and the ripples Tereza made in the water and in Thomas' heart when she jumped into the water. . .

At the end of the film, when Trisha and Thomas finally find the intersection of their so-called happy lives—the country—and while they dance and smile and indulge, fate (a novelist's sense of humour) begins again. A joke, they just smiled and disappeared into a thick white fog.

When death, pronounced by Sabina's mouth, the cruelty dissipated for the most part, the absurdity reached its peak.

We laugh, or we should cry, and then life, or sense of humor, is more resilient than the sky we can look up to.

Trisha's weight, Thomas' light, and Grandpa Sabina's hat and her American cottage by the sea, all on my shoulders.

So I want to pay tribute to Haizi:

from tomorrow, I will be a happy person,

feed horses, chop wood, travel around the world,

from tomorrow onwards, take care of food and vegetables

I have a house, facing the sea, spring flowers bloom

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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.