Before Sunset

even though I love before sunrise so much, and I hold it so dear, it changed my perspective on love, I put off watching the second film of the franchise. and from reviews I knew it was good too, i think it was because I knew celine and jesse wouldn’t meet in vienna in december and that was the hard truth that I had to face, even a night like that, and even though they deserved it, they wouldn’t get their happy ending. I woken up at 1am and couldn’t fall back asleep, I’m remembering now this actually happened when I watched before sunrise for the first time, I think I’d naturally woken up around 3. as I finished the film the sun was risen, it thought it was quite poetic. so when I woke up today, and it is 2026 now, I decided it was time. of course this film was beautiful, it mirrors the exact natural romance and raw emotion as the first one. but the initial sting and shock of the first film will automatically make me favour it always. unfortunately this grows the pit in my stomach as I watch another film set in warm paris, the most authentic beautiful place in the world, the only place I want to be.