I watched the original book "The Unbearable Lightness of Being" in a summer nearly 10 years ago, so far away and so young that when I watched the movie, I could hardly find the connection between the movie and the original book. fair enough. Some things have to appear when they should appear before they will have the greatest impact and touch, and it won't work if they appear too early or too late.
Books are the carrier of independent three-dimensional imagination only relying on words, while movies are channels that directly integrate images, tone, music, and dialogue, which are more direct and violent. It better covers brain surgeon Thomas, photography enthusiast Tereza, painter Sabina, engineer Franz... Their life trajectories are intertwined in the Czech Republic where the war is spreading, and the status and status of people from all walks of life during the war. Psychological changes.
When Thomas saw Tereza emerge from the bath in the small town, the heart of this divorced single man who knew more about women than the structure of his brain softened. This encounter was different from the usual curiosity, because soon after Simple Tereza came to Prague, had a woman on his single bed for the night, and they got married like lightning.
I have seen countless people's comments on Thomas and Tereza, many of which are based on the different attitudes of men and women towards eroticism and sex - why men can use sex as a game or hunt and enjoy it, and why women can only live with one man The center of gravity is haggard. I am afraid that this issue has to be considered from the perspective of multiple academics of medical physiology and psychology. What is certain is that the love and respect for each other is true and beautiful, but they are different animals, and they have to live with their own attitude, just like the pet pig and Karenin in the afternoon in the countryside. Playing and rolling in the grass, enjoying this time, but pigs are still pigs and dogs are still dogs.
For Theresa, her whole world is heavy. Her focus is on her husband Thomas. She couldn't accept Thomas' physical infidelity, but she couldn't leave him, and she was on the brink of mental chaos.
For Thomas, his whole world is light. Light, but not frivolous light. His body can jump between different women. He loves his wife Teresa, but he can't let go of her, more psychologically; he loves the painter Sabina, and he can't let her go, more physically.
Teresa woke up from a nightmare at night and told Thomas that she couldn't understand how to accept the body without love, but she wanted to help them undress, bathe them, and make their bodies their playthings. What I think Teresa doesn't understand is that when Thomas is actually having sex with any woman, he's actually in love with each other, at least physically.
Then, when Teresa actually undressed Sabrina in front of her that day, and recorded her body lines with the camera, there were tears in the eyes behind the camera, which were always flushed with red cheeks. Sabrina felt like she was being played with a doll, and the words she defiantly ordered Teresa were exactly what Thomas said to them both (and to all the women he was related to) - take off your clothes! In the end, the two shuttled around in the mirror and sparred, smiling at each other in front of the stove. Maybe they express this subtle cohesive force in their hearts with laughter, including their helplessness and contempt for the man they love but abusive. Not all women are as friendly as they are. Even years later Sabrina received a letter from afar, knowing that they were killed in a car accident in the rain, Sabrina defined them as the two most important friends in her life.
The war changed the trajectory of life for everyone in every class. The film uses black and white to record the different actions and faces of different characters in the war. They leave and come back. Or leave again. In the social environment, individuals struggle or escape with their own inherent strength, and survive. Perhaps only when they go to the countryside can they live a monotonous life and work hard to keep them away from the absurdity of war, the temptation of the city, and to find peace of mind. The happy time when I was so happy and isolated from the world seemed to return to the earliest days of children - no concealment, no need for lies.
There are too many time dislocations in life. People and people meet at the right or inappropriate time, colliding with different results. Theresa's love makes Thomas accept another person into his heart, light and heavy are reconciled, yin and yang interact, there will be differences and regrets, but isn't this love?
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