fleeting time

Ruthe 2022-01-26 08:12:48

What an amazing number nine is.
Every time I recite it, the sound is on the tip of my tongue, and the aftertaste is still in my heart.

Jesse uses a book to remember a heartwarming encounter with Celine nine years ago.
They spend a good night together, then separate before sunrise and agree to meet again in Vienna. However, Celine missed the date because of the death of her grandmother. So there was Before Sunrise, and nine years later, Before Sunset. Because they finally met in Paris.

Jesse met Celine in the final moments before getting on the plane.
Two people who were at a loss for what to do when they met again started a long conversation.
Talk about their own lives, talk about politics, talk about sex, talk about birth, old age, sickness and death, and talk about those specious contents. The two walked side by side, crossed a road, turned a corner, and walked down another street. Here is the first time Jesse asked Celine, "Why didn't we exchange phone numbers and addresses?" Celine smiled and said, "We were both young and silly."
In a fancy coffee shop After a short rest, they walked into the park again, walked across the Seine, got on a cruise ship, and watched Notre Dame Cathedral and the sunset on the cruise ship. Jesse asked Celine unwillingly for the second time, "Why didn't we exchange phone numbers and addresses at that time?" Celine replied, "I don't know, it was because we were still too young, thinking we would meet a lot of people who fell in love at first sight. People. When I am no longer young, I realize that such good times are only met a few times in my life." The

nine years have always brought people hope, disappointment, and despair.
Both Jesse and Celine lived in New York, and both fantasized about being able to meet again. But something with zero chance of happening doesn't shine like a miracle.
Jesse said he missed Celine even before he got married. Sitting in the car going to church, he looked out the car, he thought he saw Celine, it was 13 Broadway. Celine raised her eyes in surprise, trembling slightly, and said, I used to live at No. 11 Broadway.
In an unknown time and space, the hearts that miss each other unconsciously rub shoulders.

Jesse looked at the emotions in Celine's eyes, the emotions revealed in Celine's mixed and extreme words, entangled, going back to nine years ago, or constantly assuming, constantly nostalgic.
If your grandmother died a week earlier or a week later, maybe everything would have been different, Jesse said.
But now, there is no going back. Just like Manzhen's calm words: Shijun, we can't go back.

At the end of the film, Celine played the guitar and sang the song "The Words" written by
herself. She sang Let me sing the words for you, travel through time and space, and travel through missing.
That night was all my dreams.

Then, Jesse took a Nina disc and Celine imitated Nina's concert for her.
In that state, Celine said to Jesse, you're going to miss the plane.
And Jesse sat down: I know.

Lifetime quitting
the end can not be spared
palms grow suddenly entangled curve
before the situation move after sensible
long-one days, but
failed to keep count not fleeting
what year to make changes in his life

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Extended Reading
  • Christiana 2022-03-22 09:01:26

    Quite natural, from lines to actors to content and presentation. Because of nature, so sincere, so there is resonance. But there is a very interesting thing, that is, when you use Chinese thinking to understand actors and plots, you will feel romantic, hypocritical, and dramatic, but understanding in English thinking is completely natural, normal, and not even very passionate. . However, there are many complex feelings in it that are really real and really complicated.

  • Aurelia 2022-04-23 07:01:31

    The separation is so long, the reunion is so short, time is like fire and ice water, tempering people and love, and the seemingly naive dialogue often has the most trembling golden sentences, mature or sophisticated. , this kind of existence moved me far more than the romantic idealism in the first part.

Before Sunset quotes

  • Celine: Even being alone it's better than sitting next to your lover and feeling lonely.

  • Jesse: You know, I think that book that I wrote, in a way, was like building something. So that I wouldn't forget the... details of the time that we spent together. You know, like just a reminder that... that once we really did meet! You know, that this was real! That this happened!

    Celine: Celine: I'm happy you're saying that, because... I mean, I always feel like a freak, because I'm never able to move on like... this! You know. People just have an affair, or even entire relationships... they break up and they forget! They move on like they would have changed brand of cereals! I feel I was never able to forget anyone I've been with. Because each person have... their own, specific qualities. You can never replace anyone. What is lost is lost. Each relationship, when it ends, really damages me. I never fully recover. That's why I'm very careful with getting involved, because... It hurts too much! Even getting laid! I actually don't do that... I will miss on the other person the most mundane things. Like I'm obsessed with little things. Maybe I'm crazy, but... when I was a little girl, my mom told me that I was always late to school. One day she followed me to see why. I was looking at chestnuts falling from the trees, rolling on the sidewalk, or... ants crossing the road, the way a leaf casts a shadow on a tree trunk... Little things. I think it's the same with people. I see in them little details, so specific to each of them, that move me, and that I miss, and... will always miss. You can never replace anyone, because everyone is made of such beautiful specific details. Like I remember the way, your beard has a bit of red in it. And how the sun was making it glow, that... that morning, right before you left. I remember that, and... I missed it! I'm really crazy, right?