The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Norberto 2022-03-22 09:02:22

IN PRAGUE, IN 1968, THERE LIVED A YOUNG DOCTOR NAMED TOMAS...
He was elegant, charming, and merciful. The deep eyes have a subtle excess of melancholy and laughter.


BUT THE WOMAN WHO UNDERSTOOD HIM BEST WAS SABINA...
The face half-covered by the black top hat is SABINA's charming appearance.


TOMAS WAS SENT TO A SPA TOWN TO PERFORM AN OPERATION...

This accidental event made him meet her.
Her appearance was also sudden, disturbing several old men who were playing chess in the bathtub of the spa, and attracting doctors who had no focus after surgery and wandered here to watch chess.
She swam by like a mermaid.
He followed, waited, followed, the pace was chasing after him, and the people were calm. He is always elegant.
Simple small bar, he sat down, she opened the book, a small glass of brandy, the wooden sign of No. 6, she got off work at 6, he left at 6.
Perhaps, seeing her reluctance, he changed his mind and said about 6 o'clock. Make an appointment to meet.
She is a young girl like a clear spring, with pink complexion and a slightly shy smile, easily surprised.
She was supposed to be different from all his other women, her fresh fragrance came from the flowers to be bloomed, and was a pinkish color.
One minute date, talk about chairs, mention "Anna Karenina" and the time is up.
The two were separated by the powder blue car, and she looked lost.


TOMAS returned to the original life.
There was a meditation at SABINA.
The sly SABINA asks questions about women.
The doctor said: The face bones make every woman different from each other.
And SABINA, different is her hat.
Her hat resembles a city landmark.


One night, TEREZA came to Prague, TOMAS's home. According to Milan Kundera, she drifted to TOMAS's side in the blue. The film omits the narration of TEREZA's mother, so it seems that her arrival is mostly due to TOMAS.
His love for her was merciful.
Maybe it was her dependence, their first morning, when he woke up, he found her hand holding his tightly, and he thoughtfully replaced it with a book, kissing it tenderly. She noticed.
So he said to SABINA:
If I have two lives, I can ask her to live in my place, and the other can drive her out, maybe this is the best way, but we can only live once, life is so light, Just like the outline of Leikondorff, plus the relationship is even better... She is not qualified for anything, just full of longing...


The two women met, and they were very happy to meet each other, which made TOMAS seem cramped.
This night, TEREZA had a nightmare. Out of a woman's sensitivity, she seemed to be aware of the unusual relationship between TOMAS and SABINA. The inner feelings are reflected in the form of a nightmare.
TOMAS reassured her that it was just a dream.
And whisper softly:
you can sleep
in my arms
like a bird
you are like a baby
like a bird
you are like a breeze you sing like
a short song in the forest like a forest a thousand years ago On the streets of Prague, TEREZA captures the various expressions of pedestrians. The music in the background is "HEY JUDE", the high-pitched high-pitched voice is in line with the hope in her new life, excitement, impetus...







TEREZA's work was published, and she and SABINA, TOMAS, and two TOMAS colleagues celebrated in a bar.
TEREZA sees TOMAS and SABINA kissing with unnatural eyes.
The lively music and people, like this, is what TOMAS calls light.
There was a table of Russians nearby, and they looked at the Russians and said: Bad guys. Unwitting Russians also toasted them and took pictures.
TOMAS compared the story of Oedipes to their leader, and his colleagues encouraged him to write it.


Back at home, TEREZA was still immersed in the joy of publishing his works, but TOMAS sat silently. Under the questioning of Teresa, he said: When you dance with other men, I am thinking that he may be her lover.
TEREZA knew he was jealous and danced around him happily.
Finally, she said: Will you marry me?
He said: No!
She said: Yes!
His father also said: NO!
But he said: YES!
Hehe, everyone will be surprised, such a speed, a person like him.


A simple wedding, when the host said: I have to tell you one thing, don't think that life is romantic, but life is more heavy...
TOMAS Dad's baby mini pig turned his head and left, and made a chirping sound , everyone laughed.
The host angrily took out his medal and said: Are you laughing at me?
As CATO said: THE GUILTY THINK ALL MEN SPEAK OF THEM.
He was so insecure.
The pigs barked loudly, everyone laughed so hard, and the host was so angry.
A wedding, the farce generally ends.


TOMAS took his article to the publishing house and made fun of the typist. After marriage, TOMAS did not restrain her behavior, which brought great trouble to TEREZA, and the hallucinations appeared, which made her afraid.


TOMAS came back late at night, TEREZA said: take me to find them, other women, when you make love with them, take me to... I will, salute them, I will bring them back, I will do everything you like...
Ordinary women don't say that.
Ordinary men will deny it.
TEREZA bravely left with the unbearable despair of TOMAS, but on this night, the war came. Tanks shook the city like an earthquake.
And just like that, TEREZA turned around.
In the war-torn streets, she took the historical shots one by one, and TOMAS followed closely.
She is an emotionally helpless little girl who dares to take pictures under the muzzle of the enemy.


The war, without exception, makes a city like a derailed train, disordered and wounded.
Many fled, driving, cycling or walking, TOMAS and TEREZA were among them. Compared with emotional twists and turns, TEREZA is fearless in the turbulence of life, sitting in TOMAS's car and laughing with the dog.


At this time, SABINA was in Geneva.
At a party, she heard a compatriot say solemnly: Russia is obviously dealing with an independent country, and we the people have the right and duty to fight against these invaders...
In applause, SABINA said: Then you Why immigrate, how easy it is for you to stand here and ask others to resist. Finish leaving.
Her words touched a professor named FRANZ.
They went to a restaurant for dinner, heard music like unclean water, and saw plastic flowers inserted in the water, SABINA said: those beautiful things have caused the ugly side of the world...
SABINA and FRANZ took the train together. When she heard that he was married, she opened the window of the car and it was raining outside. She stuck her head out to get in the rain. Perhaps, this move was similar to talking with married people, dangerous and exciting.


FRANZ's principle is not to go from one bed to another on the same day. He thinks that this is an insult to the three people, and it's just self-comfort. It's no different from TOMAS, sharing the surname called betrayal.


TEREZA's war-themed photos were rejected, and she was suggested to shoot nudes. Even said patting horses and cacti are better.


SABINA became a model of TEREZA after hearing about it.
At the end of the shoot, TEREZA cried, either related to the previous hallucinations, or grateful.
When SABINA filmed TEREZA, she had a tough and unfriendly expression behind TEREZA.
One bold, one shy. Two women who love the same man. Naked, his thoughts are subtle.


FRANZ divorced SABINA, she was surprised, burst into tears, kissed him, and saw a sincere heart for her, but unfortunately she didn't love him, so she decided to leave.


She also cried when she met TOMAS at the hotel. She said she would go to Paris or the United States and asked TOMAS: Do you want to go to the United States?
He said: Sometimes.
That is not to go with her.
She cried and said maybe this was the last time we met.
He said: Maybe.
It's a ruthless journey.


SABINA said goodbye to TOMAS at the hotel, and TEREZA wrote a letter to say goodbye to TOMAS at home.
She wrote:
TOMAS, I know I should help you, but I can't; should support you, but can't. Life is heavy for me, but so light for you, I can't accept the fact that it is so light, I can't hold on enough, in Prague I only need your love, in Switzerland I need everything from you, if you abandon me, what should I do How to do? I'm so weak, I went back to the country for a week, bye!
TOMAS frowned and read the letter, then walked away.
In his days alone, TOMAS was teasing people at bars, winking at bookstands, and indulging in his shiny wedding ring. Feed the swans by the lake and relax.
After an unknown amount of time, looking at the pot of cactus at home, he was finally stabbed by the thorn of missing.
So back to TEREZA side.


Politics is scary. For example, there is a saying that Kundera has never won the Nobel Prize because his novels involve politics.
TOMAS's article on the Communist Party of King Odyspaus was greatly appreciated at that time, but at this time it brought a confession, laid off, and became a glass cleaner.
And TEREZA, back to the old bar. It's just that time has changed and the bar is no longer quiet. A rude young man, a middle-aged man doing nothing wrong, an engineer, a hoax.

TEREZA also uses that con man engineer to learn about love and sex.


The scam panics TEREZA, so she and TOMAS move to Dad's farm.

A short-lived Taoyuan-style life.
The dog had cancer. Before dying, TEREZA said to TOMAS: Maybe I love it more than you, not more, I love it, but I don't expect anything in return.
If love doesn't ask for something in return, there's no anxiety about gaining or losing. All pain is gone.


When TOMAS came, SABINA treated him happily, he wanted to leave, she didn't hold back, he didn't concentrate with her, she gave a small punishment, it was a smile, he rejected her, she cried, only at that moment.
SABINA is still alone, leisurely. After receiving the bad news from TOMAS, the pain will be healed after a while.


Did TEREZA and TOMAS really die in a car accident?
In the final scene, on the rainy boulevard the morning after they went dancing and drinking, TOMAS was driving. TEREZA asks: What are you thinking?
I'm thinking how happy I am.

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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.