Product: The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Two-Disc Special Edition) (2006)
Rating: 4.0
More than bearable
I first watched this film when it came out in 1988. The ease with which it depicted sexual relationships was perhaps different than any film I had seen up until then. The irony of the film's title incorporates this attitude, contrasting it with the "heaviness" of everything else that life throws at you. Its message is perhaps (I'm guessing) that even when we are happy, and life is refreshingly `easy,' we tend to gravitate to that which will undo this, that which will put us into turmoil and confrontation; we simply can't bear to be happy for too long, for fear that the happiness itself will turn against us, never to be experienced again.As for the film itself, it's very good. Daniel Day Lewis, Juliette Binoche, and Lena Olin (wow!) are incredible. What they do between lines is a lesson in fine acting.Why four stars? Although I thought the acting was first-rate, the characters and the plot were just very good--not inspiringly great.