Unexpectedly good

I remember once we had this night talk in the college dormitory and I naively expressed my longing for platonic love. They all laughed with dissent. In the later years, I myself realized there is actually very slim chance for this kind of love. Then I moved on with this ideal that at least there is some possibilities of mind-body coordinations of love. I don't know if this ideal will prove to be rediculous some years later, but it could be seen in many great movies and fantastic literary works . Recently one of my collegues read about a junior high school boy's articles about love. He wrote in his article that he belived love between man and woman is a senior step of a highly-developed friendship, where both parties wanna to get more closer to each other, which is of course very naive and wrong. But I couldn't help thinking to myself after I heard this: what exactly is love? Ironically, my ex-boyfriend, then 28, asked the same question, right before he broke up with me, which I used to condemn bitterly as a proof of his immaturity Actually, I myself has been a little confused in the recent days. But for one thing I'm very sure, that is, true soulmates should be very frank and sincere to each other just like the people in Before Sunrise and Before Sunset.true soulmates should be very frank and sincere to each other just like the people in Before Sunrise and Before Sunset.true soulmates should be very frank and sincere to each other just like the people in Before Sunrise and Before Sunset.

I have to confess that I'm very surprised when I saw this movie. I haven't expected a sequal would go this way. I had thougt there might be a short meeting and then both people in their 30s would go back to their lives realistically and this was gonna be more of a story about morality than of romance. But I was wrong. The story is again about the real communication between two people. They are astonishingly frank and sincere to each other just like they did in 9 years ago in the previous movie. Their regrets and obsessions about the missing 9 years ago was strengthened by the fact that they are both leading an unhappy life. When I saw this, an idea struck my mind that it was God who arranged the two together but they are just not aware of his existence , so they are destined to stumbles in the night. The ending was very interesting.Ethan Hawke followed Julie Duply to her classically French apartment and insisted to listen to her songs. So she sang one, which was very touching and of course a little bit funny. Everything was fresh and familiar in her apartment in Ethan's eyes. Julie was still so charming, or even more charming than what Ethan remembered, which indicates that their encounter, though an accidental one, is undoubtedly one of the most beautiful things in the world amd doesn't turn into one of the cliche stories of extra marital affairs. And in an alluring tone, Julie, imitating their favorite pop star (I didn't hear the name very clearly), told Ethan that he would surely miss the plane. Ethan, smile indulgently, said that he was sure, too. The end . This is to me an open ending, just like the previous one., though at the second thought,I think the chance of his stay is very big. I love this kind of ending.

The little school boy might be right in some way, I think to myself. Lovers or life-partners should be soulmates or their love would not last long.

BTW, Julie Dulpy was not very beautiful but she's really very charming, as least the character she plays is very attractive--she has a special kind of naturalness and brightness which overshadows Ethan Harwke this time. She convinces me: men are just physically stronger than women, not spiritually or mentally. We are all equal.

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