Before Sunset
It's 4:30 a.m. in the morning and I can't get any sleep….
Last Thursday, I watched "Before Sunset" with a friend of mine. I didn't want to watch it, but she was so insistent on seeing it that I ended up getting dragged to the theatre in Podium. I really wasn't in the mood to watch a romantic movie where the boy DOESN'T get the girl in the end.
"Before Sunset" is the sequel to "Before Sunrise". I didn't see the first movie, but all I know is that the featured pair didn't end up together. 9 years later, the guy (Ethan Hawke) writes a novel about that 1 night he spent with a French girl (Julie Delpy) in Vienna. He never saw her again after that time and he secretly hoped that by writing the book, he would finally find her again. It ends up becoming a best seller so he goes on a book tour in Europe. His last stop is Paris and a few hours before his flight back to America, he sees her at a Paris bookshop.
They spend the next few hours talking about the past, the what-if's, the present and what could be. They walk through a park in Paris, take a river cruise and ride a car on the way to the airport. They debate about the state of the government, the environment, fate and the meaning of love.
It's a very simple movie because nothing much happens. So some people might find this film very boring. But I enjoyed it because I found the questions they asked very interesting. Plus, a lot of their ideas about marriage is really applicable to most of the people I know who are married.
One thing I'll take away from this film is a promise to myself I will never marry anyone just because I've gotten used to having him around. I will only marry the person who will make me feel like we were really destined to meet out of 6 billion people on earth. I don't want to marry anyone because he's convenient or because he's available. I don't want to ever wake up one day asking myself, "Who the hell is this idiot I married?".
Last Thursday, I watched "Before Sunset" with a friend of mine. I didn't want to watch it, but she was so insistent on seeing it that I ended up getting dragged to the theatre in Podium. I really wasn't in the mood to watch a romantic movie where the boy DOESN'T get the girl in the end.
"Before Sunset" is the sequel to "Before Sunrise". I didn't see the first movie, but all I know is that the featured pair didn't end up together. 9 years later, the guy (Ethan Hawke) writes a novel about that 1 night he spent with a French girl (Julie Delpy) in Vienna. He never saw her again after that time and he secretly hoped that by writing the book, he would finally find her again. It ends up becoming a best seller so he goes on a book tour in Europe. His last stop is Paris and a few hours before his flight back to America, he sees her at a Paris bookshop.
They spend the next few hours talking about the past, the what-if's, the present and what could be. They walk through a park in Paris, take a river cruise and ride a car on the way to the airport. They debate about the state of the government, the environment, fate and the meaning of love.
It's a very simple movie because nothing much happens. So some people might find this film very boring. But I enjoyed it because I found the questions they asked very interesting. Plus, a lot of their ideas about marriage is really applicable to most of the people I know who are married.
One thing I'll take away from this film is a promise to myself I will never marry anyone just because I've gotten used to having him around. I will only marry the person who will make me feel like we were really destined to meet out of 6 billion people on earth. I don't want to marry anyone because he's convenient or because he's available. I don't want to ever wake up one day asking myself, "Who the hell is this idiot I married?".
posted by wilgefortis @ 4:55 AM
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