Oh baby with your pretty face
Drop a tear in my wineglass
Look at those big eyes
See what you mean to me
Sweet-cakes and milkshakes
I'm delusion angel
I'm fantasy parade
I want you to know what I think
Don't want you to guess anymore
You have no idea where I came from
We have no idea where we're going
Latched in life
Like branches in a river
Flowing downstream
Caught in the current
I'll carry you
You'll carry me
That's how it could be
Don't you know me?
Don't you know me by now?
This is the feeling of "Before Sunrise" (Before Sunrise). A pair of unfamiliar men and women met in a foreign country, chatting speculatively, and met in Vienna together on the last night when the man was leaving Europe. Finally parted in nostalgia and reluctance to bid farewell. It's not an affair in a third-rate movie, but a spark that bursts out of two lonely hearts in an instant.
RICHARD LINKLATER is a master of storytelling. He is good at attracting audiences through dialogues and expressions of actors in films with no twists and turns. In the "WAKING LIFE" I have seen before, this peculiar movie method has reached its end. The dialogue throughout the article can faint audiences who do not understand the background. But it will also attract the admiration of passionate fans. And this "Love Before Dawn" (photographed before WAKING LIFE) uses a more intimate and clever way to promote the development of the story through dialogue and the natural evolution of time.
In the movie, Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy talked about their quarreling couples, and they talked about their growing up experiences, emotional confusion, religious experiences, views on life, and various topics. These daily questions surrounding the audience (at least Western audiences) can easily resonate among the audience, making them immersed in emotions and trying to find their own answers in the movie. As long as everyone finds an entry point, then the movie will succeed.
Love in reality may not all be as thrilling as in love movies, but more likely to be full of doubts, misunderstandings, and feelings after seeing each other's shortcomings. Therefore, the dialogue between men and women in this film is exactly how modern men and women face emotional confusion. What will life be like after love at first sight? What to do with marriage after the passion retreats? Should we be with someone we don't love? All kinds of problems in life are placed under the night view of Vienna. The director didn't give an answer (and he couldn't), but through this euphemistic narrative, we were all attracted by that couple of men and women. What should they do next?
What's smart is that this is the last night of men in Europe anyway. They are powerless and don't need to answer all of this. They only need to enjoy the last beautiful time together, and then remember it. Now that the burden is removed, with a little seemingly relaxed and sad inside, isn't it a special scenery? I think this is the most attractive part of the movie. The belonging of the moment of the soul and the eternal memory, this seems to be the best ending. Who said that only the feelings of Orientals are delicate?
The performances of the two actors are also worth mentioning. In fact, it is not so much a "performance", it is more special than the inherent "temperament". It seems that they should be like this. Jesse's frankness, humor, and practicality, and Celine's cleverness, cunning, and gentleness, left a deep impression on every audience who had watched the movie. At the end of the movie, I couldn't bear to see them break up like this.
I really like the passages of the fortune-telling mother-in-law and the down-and-out poet in the movie. Not to mention the mystery brought by these two professions. Just listening to the words uttered from their mouths, there is one kind that seems to be destined. mean. This also adds to the sadness of the film.
I don't really want to discuss the technical details of the film, such as why they chose Vienna, and why the route they have taken is such an arrangement, and so on. Such a movie should be worth two hours for the audience to watch, because we have watched too much hypocrisy and artificiality. Suddenly remembered "LOST IN TRANSLATION", in terms of temperament, it should be said that they are very similar. Perhaps the emotions of modern people are really lacking, and they can only look for FANTASY in movies.
The film was shot in 1995, when the domestic box office in the United States was not particularly good, but it was worth the small budget of 2.5 million. But its global box office is surprisingly good, and it has received rave reviews. Perhaps there are still too few Americans who understand the director's intentions (just like he satirized Americans in the movie).
At the end of the movie, when they met each other, I really hoped that there would be some accidents, but no. Perhaps this is life, and joy and love are doomed to disappear in an instant.
Everything depends on the
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