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Tomáš, a surgeon, and Tereza, a photographer, are a pair of married Czech intellectuals living a bohemian lifestyle. Tomáš is a womanizer who considers sex and love to be distinct entities: he has sex with a great many women but loves only Tereza, and he sees no contradiction between these two positions. Things get even more complicated when Tomáš meets Sabina, a woman also craving the intellectual bohemian lifestyle, and they cohabit with Tereza's knowledge.
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Tomáš, a surgeon, and Tereza, a photographer, are a pair of married Czech intellectuals living a bohemian lifestyle. Tomáš is a womanizer who considers sex and love to be distinct entities: he has sex sleeps with a great many women but loves only Tereza, and he sees no contradiction between these two positions. Things get even more complicated when Tomáš meets Sabina, a woman also craving the same intellectual bohemian lifestyle, life, and they cohabit with Tereza's knowledge.
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Tomáš, a surgeon, and Tereza, a photographer, are a marriage of Czech intellectuals that live a bohemian lifestyle. Tomáš is a womanizer who considers sex and love to be distinct entities: he has sex with many women but loves only Tereza, and he sees no contradiction between these two positions. Things get even more complicated when Tomáš meets Sabina, a woman craving for that intellectual bohemian lifestyle, and they cohabit with Tereza's knowledge.
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Tomáš, a surgeon, and Tereza, a photographer, are a marriage pair of married Czech intellectuals that live living a bohemian lifestyle. Tomáš is a womanizer who considers sex and love to be distinct entities: he has sex with a great many women but loves only Tereza, and he sees no contradiction between these two positions. Things get even more complicated when Tomáš meets Sabina, a woman also craving for that the intellectual bohemian lifestyle, and they cohabit with Tereza's knowledge.
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* FallenOnHardTimesJob: Tomáš is reduced to washing windows when they return to Prague.
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* FallenOnHardTimesJob: Tomáš is reduced to washing windows when they return to Prague. And while it isn't really, in Switzerland Tereza treats her magazine photography job as this, due to the public losing interest in the events happening in Czechoslovakia in favor of lighter pieces.
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* TheBore: Some older Communist Party members forcibly change the music in a dance club the main characters drink at to an older, patriotic song that they know and can sing along to. By doing so, they ruin the mood for everyone else. The band in question tries to jazz up the songs so they're still danceworthy, but this draws the party member's ire.
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* DeathByNewberyMedal: [[spoiler:Tomáš and Tereza's dog, who they got on the day they got married, gets cancer and has to be euthanized by the time they have moved to Pavel's farm, only shortly before they themselves die]]
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* DeathByNewberyMedal: [[spoiler:Tomáš and Tereza's dog, Karenin, who they got on the day they got married, gets cancer and has to be euthanized by the time they have moved to Pavel's farm, only shortly before they themselves die]]
* EyeScream: Discussed. Tomáš discuses the story of Oedipus, the king who, after seeing the effects his actions had on his kingdom, plucked his own eyes out and abandoned the throne, to show how Oedipus felt responsibility for the consequences of his actions in a way socialist leaders did not when the atrocities of the Stalinist regime came to light, and makes this the basis for an opinion piece he gets published in a Prague newspaper. Later, a party member brings this up again, and notes particularly the irony of a doctor asking people to blind themselves.
* FallenOnHardTimesJob: Tomáš is reduced to washing windows when they return to Prague.
* FriendsWithBenefits: A major conflict in the story is the lightness with which Tomáš treats sexual relationships. While Tereza accepts that Tomáš doesn't love the many other women he has sex with, she doesn't understand how he can do so without feeling any feelings about it at all.
* FallenOnHardTimesJob: Tomáš is reduced to washing windows when they return to Prague.
* FriendsWithBenefits: A major conflict in the story is the lightness with which Tomáš treats sexual relationships. While Tereza accepts that Tomáš doesn't love the many other women he has sex with, she doesn't understand how he can do so without feeling any feelings about it at all.
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* NothingExcitingEverHappensHere: The first scene of the movie features Sabina complaining about her job and her town, saying that nobody reads or talks about anything interesting.
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* NothingExcitingEverHappensHere: The first scene of the movie features Sabina complaining about her job and her town, saying that nobody reads or talks about anything interesting.interesting, and chasing after Tomáš to Prague for that very reason.
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* DeathByNewberyMedal: [[spoiler:Tomáš and Tereza's dog, who they got on the day they got married, gets cancer and has to be euthanized by the time they have moved to Pavel's farm, only shortly before they themselves die]]
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* BigBrotherIsWatching: Upon [[spoiler: Tereza and Tomáš's return to Czechoslovakia, they find themselves unable to resume their old lives due to their paranoia that party members could be watching them, known subversives, at any time.]]
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* BigBrotherIsWatching: Upon [[spoiler: Tereza and Tomáš's return to Czechoslovakia, Prague, they find themselves unable to resume their old lives due to their paranoia that party members could be watching them, known subversives, at any time.]]]]
* CallToAgriculture: Late in the story, Tomáš and Tereza abandon their lives in Prague to work on a farm, undernearth Pavel, one of Tomáš's former patients. It is portrayed as one of the most genuinely happy and simple periods of their lives.
* CallToAgriculture: Late in the story, Tomáš and Tereza abandon their lives in Prague to work on a farm, undernearth Pavel, one of Tomáš's former patients. It is portrayed as one of the most genuinely happy and simple periods of their lives.
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* DirtyCommies: The main characters think very little of Socialism or the [=USSR=]. A plurality of Tomáš's troubles stem from a negative opinion piece he gets published on the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia. Further strife in the character's life is induced when they are forced to flee their homes during the Warsaw Pact invasion, and the photographs Tereza takes of the protests make them both political targets and gets used to identify targets. [[spoiler:When they return to Czechoslovakia, their passports get taken and Tomáš loses his job as a doctor due to his refusal to apologize for his opinion piece, and is reduced to a window washer.]]
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He was born and raised in England and has an English accent. That he also happens to hold Irish citizenship due to their peculiar citizenship laws is irrelevant in this context.
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* ArcWords: The German proverb "Einmal ist keinmal", roughly, "one time won't hurt", often used as an excuse for engaging in sinful pleasures, but which Kundera interprets as expressing the pessimistic sentiment that "If we have only one life to live, we might as well not have lived at all".
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* ArcWords: The German proverb "Einmal ist keinmal", roughly, "one time won't hurt", often used as an excuse for engaging in sinful pleasures, but which Kundera interprets as expressing the pessimistic sentiment that "If we have only one life to live, we might as well not have lived at all".all" (it literally means "once is never").
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* ArcWords: The German proverb "Einmal ist keinmal", roughly, "one time won't hurt", often used as an excuse for engaging in sinful pleasures, but which Kundera interprets as expressing the pessimistic sentiment that "If we have only one life to live, we might as well not have lived at all".
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* PosthumousCharacter: Midway through the novel, we learn that [[spoiler:Tomáš and Tereza have died in a road accident]]. Yet, due to the novel's non-linear narrative, we continue to follow their storyline up to the end of the novel. In the film, since the plot is arranged more linearly, it had to save that [[TheReveal reveal]] for the penultimate scene.
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* PosthumousCharacter: Midway through the novel, we learn that [[spoiler:Tomáš and Tereza have died in a road accident]]. Yet, due to the novel's [[AnachronicOrder non-linear narrative, narrative]], we continue to follow their storyline up to the end of the novel. In the film, since the plot is arranged more linearly, it had to save that [[TheReveal reveal]] for the penultimate scene.
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The novel was [[TheFilmOfTheBook adapted into a film]] in 1988, starring Creator/DanielDayLewis as Tomáš, Creator/JulietteBinoche as Tereza, and Creator/LenaOlin as Sabina.
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The novel was [[TheFilmOfTheBook adapted into a film]] in 1988, directed by Philip Kaufman and starring Creator/DanielDayLewis as Tomáš, Creator/JulietteBinoche as Tereza, and Creator/LenaOlin as Sabina.
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Tomas, a surgeon, and Tereza, a photographer, are a marriage of Czech intellectuals that live a bohemian lifestyle. Tomas is a womanizer who considers sex and love to be distinct entities: he has sex with many women but loves only Tereza, and he sees no contradiction between these two positions. Things get even more complicated when Tomas meets Sabina, a woman craving for that intellectual bohemian lifestyle, and they cohabit with Tereza's knowledge.
The novel was [[TheFilmOfTheBook adapted into a film]] in 1988, starring Creator/DanielDayLewis as Tomas, Creator/JulietteBinoche as Tereza, and Creator/LenaOlin as Sabina.
The novel was [[TheFilmOfTheBook adapted into a film]] in 1988, starring Creator/DanielDayLewis as Tomas, Creator/JulietteBinoche as Tereza, and Creator/LenaOlin as Sabina.
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* AdaptedOut: In the novel, Tomas has a son, Simon, from an earlier relationship; he becomes important when he is the one who informs Sabina through a letter of [[spoiler:Tomas and Tereza's death]]. In the film, he is nowhere to be seen, and Sabina instead receives the letter from an old patient of Tomas.
* {{Futureshadowing}}: The penultimate scene of the film adaptation has Sabina on a beach in California reading a letter that tells her of [[spoiler:Tomas and Tereza's death in a traffic accident]]. The final scene has [[spoiler:Tomas and Tereza]] driving off back in Czechoslovakia, where [[{{Irony}} in the last line he tells her he's thinking about how happy he is]].
* {{Futureshadowing}}: The penultimate scene of the film adaptation has Sabina on a beach in California reading a letter that tells her of [[spoiler:Tomas and Tereza's death in a traffic accident]]. The final scene has [[spoiler:Tomas and Tereza]] driving off back in Czechoslovakia, where [[{{Irony}} in the last line he tells her he's thinking about how happy he is]].
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''The Unbearable Lightness of Being'' (Czech: ''Nesnesitelná lehkost bytí'') is a 1984 novel by Creator/MilanKundera. It takes place mainly in Prague in the late 1960s and early 1970s, with the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prague_Spring Prague Spring]] and the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warsaw_Pact_invasion_of_Czechoslovakia Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia]] as backdrop.
Tomas, a surgeon, and Tereza, a photographer, are a marriage of Czech intellectuals that live a bohemian lifestyle. Tomas is a womanizer who considers sex and love to be distinct entities: he has sex with many women but loves only Tereza, and he sees no contradiction between these two positions. Things get even more complicated when Tomas meets Sabina, a woman craving for that intellectual bohemian lifestyle, and they cohabit with Tereza's knowledge.
The novel was [[TheFilmOfTheBook adapted into a film]] in 1988, starring Creator/DanielDayLewis as Tomas, Creator/JulietteBinoche as Tereza, and Creator/LenaOlin as Sabina.
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!!The novel and its film adaptation contain examples of:
* AdaptedOut: In the novel, Tomas has a son, Simon, from an earlier relationship; he becomes important when he is the one who informs Sabina through a letter of [[spoiler:Tomas and Tereza's death]]. In the film, he is nowhere to be seen, and Sabina instead receives the letter from an old patient of Tomas.
* {{Futureshadowing}}: The penultimate scene of the film adaptation has Sabina on a beach in California reading a letter that tells her of [[spoiler:Tomas and Tereza's death in a traffic accident]]. The final scene has [[spoiler:Tomas and Tereza]] driving off back in Czechoslovakia, where [[{{Irony}} in the last line he tells her he's thinking about how happy he is]].
* JustAStupidAccent: Creator/DanielDayLewis in the film adaptaion is an Irishman portraying a Czech lothario by putting on an accent that is a mixture of TV-presenter British and cold-war-spy-movie Russian. The effect is less than suave, more like distractingly ridiculous.
* PosthumousCharacter: Midway through the novel, we learn that [[spoiler:Tomas and Tereza have died in a road accident]]. Yet, due to the novel's non-linear narrative, we continue to follow their storyline up to the end of the novel. In the film, since the plot is arranged more linearly, it had to save that [[TheReveal reveal]] for the penultimate scene.
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''The Unbearable Lightness of Being'' (Czech: ''Nesnesitelná lehkost bytí'') is a 1984 novel by Creator/MilanKundera. It takes place mainly in Prague in the late 1960s and early 1970s, with the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prague_Spring Prague Spring]] and the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warsaw_Pact_invasion_of_Czechoslovakia Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia]] as backdrop.
Tomas, a surgeon, and Tereza, a photographer, are a marriage of Czech intellectuals that live a bohemian lifestyle. Tomas is a womanizer who considers sex and love to be distinct entities: he has sex with many women but loves only Tereza, and he sees no contradiction between these two positions. Things get even more complicated when Tomas meets Sabina, a woman craving for that intellectual bohemian lifestyle, and they cohabit with Tereza's knowledge.
The novel was [[TheFilmOfTheBook adapted into a film]] in 1988, starring Creator/DanielDayLewis as Tomas, Creator/JulietteBinoche as Tereza, and Creator/LenaOlin as Sabina.
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!!The novel and its film adaptation contain examples of:
* AdaptedOut: In the novel, Tomas has a son, Simon, from an earlier relationship; he becomes important when he is the one who informs Sabina through a letter of [[spoiler:Tomas and Tereza's death]]. In the film, he is nowhere to be seen, and Sabina instead receives the letter from an old patient of Tomas.
* {{Futureshadowing}}: The penultimate scene of the film adaptation has Sabina on a beach in California reading a letter that tells her of [[spoiler:Tomas and Tereza's death in a traffic accident]]. The final scene has [[spoiler:Tomas and Tereza]] driving off back in Czechoslovakia, where [[{{Irony}} in the last line he tells her he's thinking about how happy he is]].
* JustAStupidAccent: Creator/DanielDayLewis in the film adaptaion is an Irishman portraying a Czech lothario by putting on an accent that is a mixture of TV-presenter British and cold-war-spy-movie Russian. The effect is less than suave, more like distractingly ridiculous.
* PosthumousCharacter: Midway through the novel, we learn that [[spoiler:Tomas and Tereza have died in a road accident]]. Yet, due to the novel's non-linear narrative, we continue to follow their storyline up to the end of the novel. In the film, since the plot is arranged more linearly, it had to save that [[TheReveal reveal]] for the penultimate scene.
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