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January 30, 2005

The Unbearable Lightness of Being - 5

This is a long movie and I hear the book is better, as is mostly the case between books and movies. This film deals with relationships, fidelity, as well as communism in Czeslovakia. The question that the movie asks is "What do you care about?" This is what the main character asks about halfway through the movie and then goes about trying to make choices in search of the answer to that question. The characters also deal with the connections between sex and love. In the end I think it is the convictions that we have that are the weight of our being, and we must live with the responsibility of the choices that we make, as we discover what we care about.

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