Product: The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Two-Disc Special Edition) (2006)
Rating: 1.0
Highly overrated
One of the most overrated movies ever. It is extremely meandering and never seems to end. People like this flik because it's all about atmosphere and erotic cool and Prague, etc. As a movie it's really lousy, there's no real point to it except to stay within this hip, tense, minimalistic-european world for as long as possible. I kept thinking- "oh, that's the end" and it would keep going. I'd think "oh, ok, this is the end", and it would keep going. When the end finally came I thanked God it was over because it was really painful to sit through. This movie is all about style *as* substance, it's very shallow and I imagine enjoyable only if you're willing to accept this type of movie as shallow entertainment and nothing more. It's not a shoot-em-up action movie, but it's about as deep as one and you probably need to be in that mind-set to like it. Personally I like my dramas a little bit deeper. I guess this is a good movie to point to as proof you dig deep movies or something, as this is accepted as a deep movie, but I'm telling you, it's about as deep as spilt milk.