Product: The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Two-Disc Special Edition) (2006)
Rating: 5.0
The Non-Judgemental Bottom Line....(ahem...Jen)
I have spent a good part of my life surrounded by people w/low body fat and good reasoning skills, although who among us always used disgression, especially when it comes to matters of the heart. We may use it one minute to discover some divine truth...next minute we rationalize a decision to satify an ego need.Is this highbrow? The ability to articulate does not a saint make. Besides, any discussion of morality is purely relative (Why don't people understand this - their is no "right" or "wrong" there is however acting in accordance w/spiritual law and not) People w/ the guts to live life and share their experience w/others are fascinating. Beats sitting out in a salt flat wishing I did not subvert all my drives into cravings for doughnuts.READ THE TITLE!!! Life is so wonderfully simple...but so damn hard to do! This movie is about simply "being". Being human. The depth of the characters draws you in. They draw you in because they act on there "human" impulses not because they are georgeous. Not being familiar w/ the time or place of the movie, it just kinda washed over me but kept me riveted the whole time.Some lives are simple and boring like those in Salt Lake City or those of the waitress character. Through circumstance lives do change and life can become adventurous and exciting. It's all part of being human. It does not make one person better than another.This movie takes you through the lives and interactions of 3 people (compellingly). That is it!! What truly brings this movie together is the final scene. The beautiful simplicity of a perfect evening spent w/wonderful friends. They were so engrossed in "Being"...This is hard to articulate.The feeling I got after the final scene was crushing and then it was all clear. The simple beauty in "I've never been so happy"...then *BOOM*...Everyone who has seen this remembers exactly what they were doing at the time...am I right?..like as if that was the realization that these 2 soulmates had incarnated to experience and then they could be freed from this life. Gorgeously painful. My heart compressed and then burst open. I wailed in anguish. I realized myself lost I become in the details of life and I was ashamed for overlooking what I felt at that moment, the true essence. This scene is truly sublime.They had done all this living but had allowed themselves to become distracted from the point of it all. Fantastic ending...perfect.We really do take life too seriously people. We are so busy analyzing it and expecting things that we overlook the magic that it is to just be alive. The Unbearable Lightness is divinely inspired. Pray for those who get lost in the details...this movie will surely be lost on them.