A doctor, three women around him, a female nurse who flirts with him in the hospital; Sabina, his mistress who knows him best; The woman, Teresa, ended up being his wife inexplicably, and that's the reality, even if it seems ridiculous at times.
One brought him excitement at work, the other understood him in the depths of his heart, and the last was regarded by him as the sustenance of his life.
I'm sorry, I didn't read Kundera's original novel, "The Unbearable Lightness of Life" before writing this. The teacher asked when he mentioned this novel and this movie: What is the unbearable lightness of life? light? What is as heavy as a mountain, and what is as light as a feather?
It took me a lot of time to watch the movie. After all, it was 3 hours long and I couldn't watch it all in one go. What is life unbearable? So let's talk about it here.
The cause,
yes, before we talk about this, we have to separate our work from the socialist cause, because after all the former is too practical, and the latter, though sacred, is nihilistic.
Thomas is a top brain doctor with a career that has been smooth sailing. He has a good reputation and superb technology. And he doesn't seem to be complacent about it.
It seems that a doctor cannot change the fate of a country. This issue was also mentioned by our Mr. Lu Xun. Despite Thomas' superb medical skills, Soviet tanks still mercilessly drove into Prague's squares, showing off their coldness and power in front of the Czech people.
Czechs took to the streets to protest and organize the advance of tanks. But it is conceivable how unarmed ordinary people can stop the advance of mechanized tanks? When the muzzle of the artillery turned towards them, they had no choice but to back down.
Of course, this is also the life of the common people. At the beginning, they were full of blood and safeguard the dignity of the motherland. But when the force really turned to themselves, how could more people choose to die and retreat.
Well, since a cold scalpel can't change the fate of a nation, then use the words full of blood. This is what Mr. Lu Xun did, and so did Thomas in the film. An article about his doubts about the cause of communism, and even slandering socialism.
Can words save a nation?
However, in the cultural domination after the Soviet invasion, Thomas was deprived of the right to be a doctor because of such an article. Carry out ideological transformation and establish a good image of the great cause of communism.
This is not to speak ill of socialism. It just said that some people in that era used the guise of socialism to carry out ideological aggression.
Thomas left his hometown because it was considered to be inciting anti-socialism. Later, driven by love, he returned to Prague, but he did not expect that people from the Ministry of the Interior had already set his sights on him.
Because he refused to succumb to their deliberate frame-up, Thomas became the sacrifice. Losing the right to be a doctor, and the tool in his hand has changed from a scalpel to a glass cleaner, is an insult to a high-level intellectual and puts Thomas in trouble. This is a struggle from deep within.
So for careers and ideals, these lives seem unbearable. People face these confusions and then choose to avoid them, just as Thomas finally decided to live on the farm. Because there is time for himself here, time for beer. It's that simple.
Since the career can't bear the emotion
, let's take off the splendid skin of this senior doctor and explore his private life.
Three women, or more. Thomas in the film can be said to be an amorous man. The idea of sexual liberation took root in his brain.
As in a conversation with a friend in a nightclub:
Thomas, are you a bad guy?
Apparently he is. Sabina said, by the way, she covered Thomas' facial features with her own hands and continued: Is it his mouth? Or his sly eyes? What makes him look like a bad guy?
It's his head, it's what's inside his head. Teresa said.
That's right, what's going on in Thomas' brain is really surprising.
Sex is a game, just for fun. How surprising it is, it is like meeting a person who is equally hungry in body and mind, and his attitude towards women is always toying with. Teresa's hallucinations in the pool seem to describe Thomas' situation. Showing a sinister smile in the crowd of naked women, and then reaching out to Teresa with both hands, motioning her to come to the shore and join the group of naked women.
In the novel, he even makes his wife watch the sexual process between him and his lover, which is unreasonable in our eyes to this day.
He has no shortage of happy marriages.
There is no shortage of a kind, even admiring and loving wife. Teresa did a great job, he relied on Thomas and adored him. When he was sent to the farm to work, he was still there. Teresa is not a beautiful woman, but she is good enough as a wife.
He has no shortage of romance.
There is no shortage of a mistress who can resonate with him in the depths of his heart. Sabina is a good lover. She is artistically creative, a romantic, open-minded woman who also relies heavily on Thomas.
At Sabina, Thomas is at ease, and they delight their bodies. You can talk deeply and talk about everything about life.
After the fall of the motherland, they also migrated to a city and could still communicate smoothly. When Sabina wanted to escape the bondage of marriage and avoid true love, she still thought of Thomas. In their private space, they can still have sex. Playing with that men's hat in the mirror.
This woman knew Thomas best.
He has no shortage of sex for bodily pleasure.
Omg, should I really be talking about human nature in movie reviews? I don't know if I'm a little crazy.
He has no shortage of sex partners. He would boldly say to his beautiful colleagues in the office: take off your clothes, I will see your naked body. The next thing is to show his sharp eyes.
Even when he was assigned to work, women would still invite him into his home, taste wine, and then make sexual suggestions.
Sex is just a game for him to please himself.
So emotionally, he seems to have spent a lot of energy, and he does not lack tenderness and happiness.
Career, ideals, emotions, these are the top priorities.
Without a career, we will lose the capital for our own survival, and we cannot even fill our stomachs; without ideals, we appear to be lazy and unmotivated; then in the end, if we lack emotion, it is a Skins, a bunch of walking dead.
So what is the unbearable lightness of life?
Perhaps Thomas has the answer at the end of the film.
When Sabina learns that Thomas has died in an accident, the camera shifts from her almost twitching facial expression to a quiet one.
In the picture, Thomas is sitting quietly in the driver's seat of the car, and Teresa next to him stares at him and says: Thomas, what are you thinking?
I'm thinking how happy I am now.
This may be Thomas's answer.
Happiness is compared to career, ideals, love, and marriage. It seems so accessible, but it just becomes something that life cannot bear.
People are busy, fighting for what is as heavy as a mountain in their hearts, and in the end they end up empty-handed. When they get what really makes themselves happy, death beckons you not far away. So how sad that is.
As I have mentioned with many friends who are in difficulty these days, at the moment, you need to know what you need most, and then approach it and do it step by step. Even if something seems as light as a feather, it is what you lack the most.
Efforts are not just to obtain those things that satisfy one's own vanity. If true happiness is far away from you, it is indeed the greatest sadness.
Life is unbearably light, and I like this Chinese translation more and more. A happy, relaxed state of mind, in this way, makes people feel a little unrealistic. I seem to have returned to a pessimistic stance.
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