The Unbearable Lightness of Being Film is movie based on the lives of three Czechoslovaks during the 1968 Prague Spring social liberation and consequent Soviet led Warsaw Pact invasion. The military coup reestablished a strong socialist regime more in line with the Soviet Union vision of a strong dictatorship of the Communist Party. This was in order to prevent dissidents or free minds from disrupting the central socialist government administration. The film portrays the lives of a Tomas, a Doctor that was womanizer, but eventually felt in love with Tereza. Sabina who was a painter artist and Tomas main extramarital love affair. An analysis of the movie that portrays the effects of the Soviet Invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968 to tighten the regime demonstrates many issues latent in the context of Comparative Legal System course taught by Professor Stephen Ross Levitt.
The Czech Republic which was part of the Communist Block since the conclusion of the WWII used to be a very strong democracy in Central Europe until they were forced to establish a Socialist government by the Soviet Union . In the 1960s changes in leadership in Prague led to a series of reforms allowing more freedom of expression and softening the general the application of the communist doctrine in the country. The USSR feared that a crucial member of the Warsaw Pact …show more content…
We see the irony of a political system and dictatorship that would not allow one of the best brain surgeon in the country to practice medicine because he was not willing to comply with the social pressure to accept or at least pretend to assent to the socialist doctrine. Another aspect in the film that can be appreciated is how the protagonist are stripped down from their passports when they decided to get back to the country; this principle or doctrine was referred as the Iron
The Czech Republic which was part of the Communist Block since the conclusion of the WWII used to be a very strong democracy in Central Europe until they were forced to establish a Socialist government by the Soviet Union . In the 1960s changes in leadership in Prague led to a series of reforms allowing more freedom of expression and softening the general the application of the communist doctrine in the country. The USSR feared that a crucial member of the Warsaw Pact …show more content…
We see the irony of a political system and dictatorship that would not allow one of the best brain surgeon in the country to practice medicine because he was not willing to comply with the social pressure to accept or at least pretend to assent to the socialist doctrine. Another aspect in the film that can be appreciated is how the protagonist are stripped down from their passports when they decided to get back to the country; this principle or doctrine was referred as the Iron