Before Sunset

“I know.” I love this trilogy but more importantly I love this movie. This and Sunrise are two of my favorite movies of all time. I can’t explain the warmth that these movies radiate. They make me feel comfortable within the world created. I love revisiting the movies in this trilogy because it feels like catching up with people I’ve fallen out of touch with. That is what this movie highlights so well. The idea of catching up with someone who you fell out of touch with yet the idea you once had of them still remains in your mind. Your expectations based on your preexisting ideas are wrong but it doesn’t matter. The contrast between someone you know and a stranger all in the same person. We want to stay content in the happiness of the memories we have but instead we move forward forming new memories that one day we will look back on in the same way. A cycle of wanting to live in the comfort of the past and creating the past of the future.