Sunrise and sunset, about encounters

A film about encounters. A specific encounter story is told before sunrise. An American man meets a French woman on a train and invites her to spend the night together in Vienna. The two walked together in the alleys of the city, telling their own stories. Although it is so coordinated, there is no sex, otherwise it will be suspected of having a one-night stand. The director hopes that this film will be purer. So the man flew back to the United States the next day, and the woman set foot on the return journey.
Nine years later, the director and two leading actors made a sequel, before sunset. Nine years after the narration, the male protagonist wrote a book to record everything that happened at that time. On the last day of his book promotion in Paris, he met her again at the bookstore. Then his return ticket is the sunset time of the day. So they only had a short time to meet, and they talked about the situation at that time, their current life and their own thinking about life. Although each of them valued each other very much and loved each other very much, the words flickered and avoided the topic. It was almost sunset and he sent her home. At her house, she sang a song that she wrote to him back then. He was reluctant to get up, preferring to stay with her. But then they would be like men and women in the world - having sex, and then living. They seem unwilling to do so, which they have been deliberately avoiding.
To go, or not to go, that is the question. At this point, the director avoided the question.

Reminds me of the life attitude about lightness and heaviness in "The Unbearable Lightness in Life". Lightness and heaviness are two attitudes towards life. Between sunset and sunset, they want a light life and fear the heaviness of having sex and living together. They are deliberately evasive, in words and actions. Although they can easily talk about sexual topics, it can be seen that the key point is that the topic often turns. The wit of words reveals hypocrisy, because sex is the inevitable desire of men and women in the world. Here, if sex is involved, it seems that the whole film sinks into a one-night stand, so they deliberately avoid it, but desire spreads between their casual movements and eyes.
At the end of the film, the heroine imitates the singing of a singer and sings while twisting. The male protagonist sat on the sofa and seemed to want to dance with her, but he suppressed himself not to stand up. Time is running out, and sunset's plane is like a ghost, hovering around. Even though the end's subtitles cover up the ending, I don't think he's going to catch that flight.

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