Saturday, October 13, 2007

Vertigo according to Milan Kundera

"She longed to do something that would prevent her from turning back to Tomas. She longed to destroy brutally the past seven years of her life. It was vertigo. A heady, insuperable longing to fall.

We might also call vertigo the intoxication of the weak. Aware of his weakness, a man decides to give in rather than stand up to it. He is drunk with weakness, wishes to grow even weaker, wishes to fall down in the middle of the main square in front of everybody, wishes to be down, lower than down.
" - The unbearable lightness of being.

Our lives would be much more gratifying if we know that each moment is earned by not succumbing to this vertigo.

An excellent short film

http://en.qoob.tv/video/clip_view.asp?id=245

its only 9 mins long