I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

People are voting emotionally.

Great story, amazing characters, superb action, enthralling cinematography. Yes, this is something I am glad I spent money on.

There are moments that feel comical, some horrific, and some downright inspiring but the tonal shifts hardly matter as the end results come to a film that's perfect for this time.

Save yourself time and watch "Something like happiness" one more time to enjoy work of director. Story is weak and unreal: Closet gay guy comes to teach in village, abuses young boy and his mom saves him, after he tries to commit suicide on her field where she feeds cows every day? And after puke and glass of water he is OK to break stones. After some difficulties, whatever they were, young boy comes back home and birth of calf in which all three of them assist make them to forgive and they live happily ever-after...widowed mother, guy gay and abused boy. Oh...and we know that it is straightforward movie because we saw a scene with puke-cleaning so it is clear that director does not embellish the truth? Oh, give me a break. The only thing I liked was a music, wonderful one.

After seeing many recent movies that have jumbled time sequencings or puzzling plot elements, it is good to see a movie like this that is told in linear time at a pace that allows you to appreciate its qualities.The story is that of a teacher in the Czech Republic, who decides to leave his post at an exclusive prep school in Prague to take a position teaching natural science in a small rural school. The school is happy to get such a qualified teacher, but also suspicious of why such a person would come to their school. In due course we come to understand the decision.It is not without significance that the teacher (if he had a name in the movie, I missed it) favors teaching about biological diversity, since he is gay. Initially the teacher hides his sexual orientation out of the usual fears, and one of the interesting facts I got from having seen this is to understand that the status of gays in the Czech Republic is pretty much the same as that in the United States--teetering on the fulcrum of acceptance.The filming is highly accomplished. I particularly liked the deft usage of the widescreen format. A lot would be lost by seeing a pan and scan version, since there are so many wonderful shots of characters on the sides of the screen played against a meaningful background. Director Sláma has a real talent for positioning his characters. The scene where the teacher reveals his sexual orientation to his mother, and subsequent scenes involving his father, are exquisitely filmed. Initially the teacher and his mother face each other from opposite sides of the screen with the father seen outside tending his bees. Then the father comes in and interposes himself between the two, then the characters change positions with the mother on one side, the teacher in the middle, and the father on the right, and on it goes. That sequence is one of the most carefully thought out and beautifully filmed I have ever seen. The camera work in this film is that of a highly skilled artist.The characters are finely drawn with strong performances by all and the score adds depth.This film should appeal to anyone who likes character driven movies where you get to know, care for, and understand the people and their motivations.

I saw this last year in a beautiful theater downtown where one sits in an easy chair and has a beer. I went with two friends. We went reluctantly, more for the chairs and beer than for any high cinematic experience; picking this movie out of a handful that were playing at the time. I think we were really lucky to see it. I wept a few times, with sadness in the middle, with joy towards the end. Very subtly told, beautifully shot. I really loved it. All the roles were well acted. The final scene was magical. One of a dozen movies that have ever moved me in this way. I'm very appreciative to the filmmakers. Thank you. And since I need a few more words for the ten lines.

This film is hugely flawed in 2 respects. 1. The portrayal of gays here is essentially a cinematic echo of the 1950s message that gay people portrayed in cinema are inwardly tortured, victims, tragic, predatory, paedophile and troublemakers. Also that when the drama of their homosexuality is finally revealed it is the cause of a terrible terrible thing. This film manages to tick every single on of these boxes which is utterly unforgivable considering it was made in 2008.There is no excuse for this. There are dozens of films portraying gay people currently being released which specifically turn their backs on these well known negative conceits and i accuse the director of falling into the trap of being homophobic and uninformed about his subject or the genre in which he posits his movie. (Gay themed film.) 2. The director also makes the mistake of portraying rural people as essentially unsophisticated and mistrusting of the urban folk. It is silently given that they would be prejudice against the secret being harboured by the school teacher because they are small minded. However as a gay person who grew up in a very rural village, i would point out that rural people are not so small minded and heterosexually strident as portrayed. Rural people look after their own and protect what is theirs. Consequently you will find in rural communities that many different kinds of strange relationships are totally accepted and understood and that a simple village person is not so clueless about the extraordinary variations of human nature. The director did not understand the rural condition and so having built up the boy's mother to be a woman of depth and substance he reduced her by causing her reaction to homosexuality to be so disproportionally traumatic. It didn't make sense at all. It's not such a big deal. But it was made a big deal because nobody was really ever good friends with each other in this film. I didn't buy the tears and drama. It was wrong. I think she would have been much more clued up and confrontational and suffice to say she needed to produce any other reaction other than the one she made in order for this movie to break the mold. This film was made by someone who doesn't quite grasp the nature of the contexts he portrays. It was a missed opportunity to play against the usual clichés and he eventually fell into all the well worn and outmoded narrative traps that cinematic discourse has spent the past 30 years exposing.