Before Sunrise
This movie... I don't know why but it hits me very differently than everyone else. It is a truly beautiful masterpiece, one of the best romance films and my favorite romance film, especially.
I want to talk about this film and the impact it has on me, I feel that it is something very profound, as if this film will speak to our soul. A film that in 1 hour and 36 minutes only makes me look at the screen and its protagonists, time flies, too quickly, just like when you are with a comfortable person, be it your girlfriend, your friend, your family, but time goes by quickly because you're comfortable with it, it's fun and you don't get bored, you know what I mean, right? We have all felt that, that time does not exist for a moment and you simply enjoy, laugh or cry, but with that person who complements a part of your life, a part of your being. And this happens when you have that special connection that, for example, there is in this movie, a very strong connection, that type of connection is what makes time not exist and only the person you are talking to exists, the rest does not matter, only you and the other person. And it can be said easy, but finding a person, I don't want to say girlfriend or boyfriend, it can simply be anyone, finding a person you connect with is possibly the most difficult thing in the world in the social and romantic sphere. And you can't look for that, it's just... Spontaneous, just like this whole Jesse and Céline day trip. Where everything happens spontaneously. Finding someone whose person you talk to all the time, there is always something to talk about and you don't get bored and there is that constant chemistry, is too difficult, and if you find it, you must embrace that opportunity and never let go of it, because in our life, whether destiny, god, the finiteness of the universe, the paths, or ourselves, is something that you must appreciate with all your soul, because it is something totally difficult in this world. Each person finds their perfect people, friends, boyfriends and girlfriends, family, whatever, each one has ties with very strong people and some don't, but the problem is that not everyone knows how to appreciate that, they always throw it away and They play with the confidence of that immense chemistry, they do not understand it, they do not even want to understand it, simply a speck of disposable dust.
This film speaks to our soul, because of the infinity of our being in the face of the infinity of another being. We are all eternally infinite within us, that infinity makes us beautiful, you simply have to be aware that we are the universe itself, the universe awakening in a human body. You must jump and take risks to achieve. You must burn to be reborn from the ashes like the phoenix.
Love for someone is something very complex as Jesse says, and all this is said by someone who has never been in love, but I have had and now have friendships that I have connected very strongly in a very spontaneous way, but I can count them on my fingers. one hand, and that hand would not have all its fingers raised.
When I saw this movie for the first time, I had the same reaction, it instantly became one of my favorites, and above all I identified with the protagonist, because of his ideology and attitude/humor. And above all for something, when Jesse connects with a person, in this case Céline, he is weak in front of someone who has chemistry with him, and that makes him sometimes behave like a little child, more innocent and a little sillier. And it's something that happens to me too, when I'm with a friend who I really have fun with and everything I said before, many times I behaved very different and extroverted, like a little child enjoying his new toy. And it's something strange, and it seems strange to me, but it shouldn't.
"it's made me feel like I was someone else."
Something that connects the movie with me even more.
Jesse has a monologue in the third act where he talks about self-hatred and how so many people hate themselves because they're stuck with their mannerisms all the time, "I've never been out bowling if I wasn't there, ya know, making some stupid joke."
I wouldn't go as far to say I agree with that sentiment but I'm obsessed with how it's making a greater point of understanding why love is so blinding. There's that first split-second of time where your connection with someone is fully realized and it's like the greatest, most indescribable high in the world. Any form of logic goes right out the door. This film captures the beginning of that feeling in a listening booth and rides it out for another hour without losing any spice.
Something that I agree with a lot about this movie is one of the last moments of the movie, where Céline tells Jesse that she doesn't agree that if she knows someone, even all their details and habits, she would stop dating them. like that, on the contrary, she will love that. And that's how it is, I also think like that, the more I know about a person, the more I can understand. love, understand, and above all love that person, the more I know someone, the more I like that person, of course, this is in the realm of good sense, if they are a bad and corrupt person, then no, I don't think I have to emphasize it.
Anyone who has seen this movie and the following ones, and says that he doesn't want something like this...he is lying to himself.
This movie may be a little cheesy, but it is completely masterful and natural with phenomenal performances. But each dialogue is extremely interesting between two intellectual people, being silly but even sharing their fears and questioning transcendental things. A total friction machine, where the conversation never ends, because they are like that, they have found each other and they are destined to be together and they have that magic, they are stardust.
A masterpiece of just two people walking and talking, it's amazing what that can do.
Ella, if you don't like it, I'm going to burn your house down.
This has definitely become my third favorite movie right now, and Before Sunset easily makes it into my top 10 as well. This movie makes me want to be better.
This movie is like a poem.