Sabina: I've met another man. He's the best man I've ever met. He's bright, handsome and he's crazy about me. And, he's married. There's only one thing; he doesn't like my hat.
Tereza: I don't understand how someone can MAKE love without BEING in love.
[first lines]

First Title Card: In Prague, in 1968, there lived a young doctor named Tomas...

Tomas: Take off your clothes.

[line recurs several times during film]
Tomas: I must go.

Sabina: Don't you ever spend the night at the woman's place?

Tomas: Never!

Sabina: What about when the woman's at your place?

Tomas: I tell her I have insomnia... anything. Besides, I have a very narrow bed.

Sabina: Are you afraid of women, Doctor?

Tomas: Of course.
[last lines]

Tereza: Tomas, what are you thinking?

Tomas: I'm thinking how happy I am.
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.
Sabina: Take off your clothes.

Tereza: [taken aback] What?

Sabina: [taking the camera] Now it's my turn.

Tereza: [backing up] I don't like to be naked. I...

Sabina: [insistent] Take off your clothes!

Tereza: Wait!

[she ducks behind the bed]
Sabina: I really like you, Tomas. You are the complete opposite of kitsch. In the kingdom of kitsch you would be a monster.
Tomas: You can sleep. Sleep in my arms. Like a baby bird. Like a broom among brooms... in a broom closet. Like a tiny parrot. Like a whistle. Like a little song. A song sung by a forest... within a forest... a thousand years ago.
Tereza: I know I'm supposed to help you, but I can't. Instead of being your support I'm your weight. Life is very heavy to me, but it is so light to you. I can't bear this lightness, this freedom... I'm not strong enough.
Tomas: Some people never change.Some people are always scoundrels.
Sabina: Maybe I am seeing you for the last time?

Tomas: Maybe.

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Mable 2022-03-25 09:01:14

8.2 I finally understand why the translated title is Prague Love instead of the unbearable lightness of life in the original work. The whole film omits the topic of lightness and heaviness in only two scenes, and the thoughts on spirit and flesh also disappear. The film copied the plot of the original book but cut down a lot of details. The length problem is indeed true, but the amazing Karenin smile of the original book ended in such a hasty way. It is still unacceptable. It's purely story-oriented, but Sabina's characterization is even better than Teresa's, while Thomas with Lewis looks a little lewd on screen. The photography style of the first half of the Soviet invasion is great, the whole sense of substitution and beauty comes out spontaneously
Elmer 2022-03-28 09:01:07

6.5 points. It is estimated that this is another film that makes Xiaoqingxin extremely excited, but unfortunately I do not catch a cold at all. It's not that two women rob a man, it's not impossible to shoot, someone else's "Doctor Zhigova" can be made into an epic, and here it becomes three dogs and men and women who make trouble all day long. Come on, what you are showing is the big incident of the Soviet Union's invasion of the Czech Republic, a little self-conscious, okay?