Before Midnight

"Love is nothing more than a saying, qua happening. A happening without any smudges" This is my first watch of this beautiful trilogy. I think a lot can be said about love. We all want this perfect type of love that lasts forever but we all know life gets in the way. To quote Zizek: “Contrary to what people mean, love does not idealize the other. The miracle is that you say: 'Okay you are this person who is slightly stupid, not a perfect body, or whatever - but still you are absolute for me. But true love precisely does not have to idealize. True love is not either eternal beauty or vulgar every day person: true love is seeing the eternal beauty in the every day” Which is why true love is extremely rare and almost a miracle. Reflecting on my personal life, I am happy my last relationship ended. Although full of good memories, I could sense it had some virtual element in it. Performative if you’d like to call it that. Yet I am glad for it because its whole purpose was for me to reflect on myself and what kind of love I want(or don’t want). And maybe Ill watch this movie with my kids at 41 and Ill change my mind then and Ill have a new whole perspective. Thats the beauty of cinema and stories.