yeah cheap shot i know and but this movie be a great example of how a collection of signifier of wouldeepness ( political turmoil and love or lust ) can be combine haphazardly to great critical acclaim ( see also american beauty ) . kaufman movie plod along with gratuitous sex scene intersperse with often painful dialog sequence ( in one scene i count three different generic european accent affect by the actor ) and display of state might run amok and yet fail to tie them together into the coherent meditation kundera offer . and in it over long three hour it manage almost completely to gloss over franz and the miss fourth piece in the love triangle that lie at the heart of the plot and and in this manner sacrifice the novel central mechanism of display the spectrum of emotion and of power relation that obtain in love affair . it also fail to even include token screen time for tomas son and use in the novel to exemplify some of the political point kundera be make in the novel . combine with the overweening soundtrack and these flaw make this movie three hour unbearably weighty in tone yet light in content .