before sunset

Leonel 2022-01-26 08:12:48

This is a movie that doesn't show off its skills and doesn't use a lot of symbolic lenses, but because of the sense of reality brought by this return to the basics, people can't tell whether this is their own life or the life of the people in the movie. The film that produces this illusion is opium. Movies that are far away from reality will not have a vague feeling because they are far away from reality, because they allow people to gain space for thinking.

Throughout the movie, we are watching an unexpected encounter between two people who have had an instant love. From the moment they are so excited that they don't know what to say about the meeting, we expect them to hug tightly or have intense lovemaking. , we followed them through cafes, parks, and yachts, and we began to get restless, because we didn't know which scene we were expecting. Just follow them and listen to their incoherent dialogue. That scene was like meeting a lover who was wrong in a certain year and a certain month. From these incoherent words, imagine who he met before, what kind of life he lived, whether he still loved himself, or whether he became old, Not likable anymore. Even I always thought that I just wanted to know if I lost my soul in his eyes as I did before, rather than whether the love is still strong after the passage of time, and whether I can start this love again.

I was sitting on the couch watching this movie, and I remember my heart was pounding, and I was so nervous that I was about to cry. The thing I hate the most about myself is that I always make a mess before I stop.

Men have repeatedly delayed getting on the plane, followed the women all the way, and talked about incomprehensible things. They didn't say anything sadly like the ones in the half-life relationship, we can't go back, and never mention the sloppy life of these years. Instead, they talk to each other about their meaningless and redundant encounters.
From the beginning of the movie to the end of the movie, I followed them all the way, with ups and downs. I didn't see each other for several years, and even in these few hours, I could become exhausted. When you follow them to the woman's house, you have already guessed the ending that you don't want to guess anymore. The woman sang a song written for this man. When the man seemed to be moved, she suddenly laughed and said, did you sing to different men, just change the name? The woman laughed too, yes.

It's a pity that life has never been prepared as carefully as a movie. Music appears where there should be music, dialogue when there should be dialogue, hugs when hugs are changed, rain pours when sensational, and then suddenly someone shouts to stop, you are Stranger. It's not like this, all the props are not prepared in advance, you don't know the plot, you just move forward with your own feelings, and you have never even thought about whether you can bear the consequences. Enough is enough, like a hypocritical joke, or an excuse to retreat.

Life is never a movie, don't empathize, don't empathize.

For asceticism, five points of fullness is the climax; for hedonism, the climax is to eat with 12 points of spread. Therefore, stopping in moderation and moving forward bravely are both adventures, but people are different and have different understandings of adventure.

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Before Sunset quotes

  • Jesse: There's gotta be something more to love than commitment.

  • Celine: Let me sing you a waltz / Out of nowhere, out of my thoughts / Let me sing you a waltz / About this one night stand / You were, for me, that night / Everything I always dreamt of in life / But now you're gone / You are far gone / All the way to your island of rain / It was for you just a one night thing / But you were much more to me, just so you know / I don't care what they say / I know what you meant for me that day / I just want another try, I just want another night / Even if it doesn't seem quite right / You meant for me much more than anyone I've met before / One single night with you, little Jesse, is worth a thousand with anybody / I have no bitterness, my sweet / I'll never forget this one night thing / Even tomorrow in other arms, my heart will stay yours until I die / Let me sing you a waltz / Out of nowhere, out of my blues / Let me sing you a waltz / About this lovely one night stand