It took us less than a day to finish the Sunrise and Sunset trilogy, but for the director, it took them 18 years to accumulate. In fact, it took more than 18 years. The creation of the first part also took time. It is said to be the personal experience of director Linklater. I used the word "accumulation" because there is really no way for such a film to be brewed, and it can only be accumulated over time. Only when I have experienced it and realized it can I express it.
I watched the first two films in 2006. After watching it, I felt so sighed, and under the rippling, I was full of composure, so I wrote a film review. Today, it seems that the pretentiousness makes people feel sick, and it is completely a way to force new words to express sorrow. However, although the article was naive, it was frank. At the time, I liked the first part and disliked the second part, because I couldn't understand the realm of life in the second part. Do you understand now? It's not easy to say, otherwise, why bother with a poem at the beginning?
I finished watching the film "Before Midnight", because I had already watched two films in a row before I watched this film on the first day, and I felt a little down. This kind of chatter seems to require a lot of patience. It's basically all kinds of long takes, and then blah blah blah. But when you watch it, it's the kind of movie that can't be fast-forwarded or pissed. It seems that every line is irrelevant. In fact, every line is extremely important. Without one of them, it's like a work of art With flaws, the whole mood is completely wrong.
It's a film that comes naturally, it doesn't need to build characters from scratch, it doesn't need to adapt the audience to the style, it doesn't even need any extra footage to explain the plot. What a luxury it spends all its time talking nonsense. However, you are surprised to find that when there is no clear backbone, the film crawls everywhere like dodder, but it is lush. Or like the freehand brushwork of Chinese painting, the mountains and rivers are interdependent and continuous, but it is completely illogical.
However, this is a movie that has nothing to do with logic. You don't have to try to understand it, you just need to feel it according to your own feelings. Then you will find that this movie is very full, and all the trivial dialogues are woven together to form an abnormally complete life. You only need to imagine, and you can supplement all the blank spaces behind the dialogue. Then you will come to enlightenment, and you don’t need to communicate. Everyone’s enlightenment may be different.
One of my favorite episodes is Hawk and Delpy walking along the country road, a long shot, they are constantly talking, very natural, I don't know how they memorized such a long line , and then said it so easily, I even guessed there was a teleprompter behind the camera. Perhaps closer to the truth, there are no precise lines at all, you just say it casually according to the general framework. The key is that the emotions are right, and how can the emotions of these two go wrong. The intimacy of the communication between the two is as natural as heinous, just like in the movie Delpy didn't believe that Hawke didn't sleep with his fans. Do you believe that the two of them didn't roll over the sheets in reality?
At the end of the film, after a heated argument and tentative reconciliation, the camera gradually zoomed out, the music played, and I found that the restless heart that had accompanied their quarrel suddenly calmed down. If I was looking forward to the future of the first and second installments, now I find that I don't care at all. It doesn't matter whether they stay in Paris, move to Los Angeles, get married, break up, or continue living together. I think this life, for them, has already been fulfilled at the emotional level, and it has already made most people on earth feel envious to death. As Ethan Hawke said in the movie: There will never be an absolutely perfect soul mate in this world, and there will never be one. Maybe there will be a moment of true love, it's not perfect, but it's real. If you can't see, you're fucking blind.
Will there be a sequel? I don't actually look forward to it anymore, the nudes of Julie Delpy in her forties won't appeal to me anymore, in nine years? Leonard asks Howard in "The Big Bang Theory" if you still love the three-breasted prostitute in "Total Recall"? Howard said, of course not, it's been so many years, how her breasts must sag.
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