After the years, we move forward.

Aisha 2022-04-22 07:01:05

Finally finished watching [before sunrise] and [before sunset]. Be careful.
There was a day in between to try to lengthen the nine-year gap. If I could, I wish I could watch the first half of the story at an age when I was still trying to believe in [meeting], and then taste the second half of the story nine years later, in the same chronological order of the film. If before sunrise is to sublimate the encounter to near perfection, before sunset magnifies the reality to the smallest detail and pours into the eyes. And just one day in heaven and hell, who is bluntly matched with who, and then put those stories that happened and didn't happen to their seats.
After all, many past events are not as good as smoke.

When Jesse and Céline met in Vienna, they always felt that such a hug and affection belonged to Paris. It's just that I never guessed that the story left the ending of reality to Paris, which is infinitely farthest from reality, but also the closest Paris.
Eiffel never appears in the movie, but if I had to pick the only scene where the hug happens. Will move to the tower.
Passing by Eiffel every day in Paris, I was always used to lingering with the figure of lovers hugging, but the more lively and lonelier it was, the romance between Eiffel and Paris was never warm, they belonged to the little regret in front of perfection, romantic A little bit of melancholy inside, and those lonely expressions given by fate when someone meets whose eyes.
The past is not like smoke, and the old people are not like smoke. So is Paris.


【Memory is a wonderful thing if you don't have to deal with the past. 】
Memories are beautiful, as long as you let all that can pass by.
Rarely good lines.
Céline hysterically told Jesse that it would be better to be alone than to be alone with someone by her side.
laugh. Who has said it, it's better to be lonely alone than two people who have nothing to say.

They shared the most shameful and proud things in their hearts, they vented every sensitive thought unscrupulously, they hugged and kissed with the flow, and they gave each other the most real expressions like children.
At the end of the day, the confession is lovely. The question is whether to meet someone who can be honest enough.
And after meeting, is it about love?
This question is important and insignificant.
It is enough to meet.

What I love most about these two movies is that he never revealed the ending.
Wilde said that there are two kinds of tragedies in the world, one is not getting what you want, and the other is getting it.
In the confrontation between love and reality, no ending may be the best ending.


Time is too thin, fingers too wide.
And deviating from the years behind us, we can only move forward.

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Before Sunset quotes

  • Celine: Do I look any different?

    [long pause]

    Celine: I do?

    Jesse: I'd have to see you naked.

  • Jesse: In the months leading up to my wedding, I was thinking about you all the time. I mean, even on my way there; I'm in the car, a buddy of mine is driving me downtown and I'm staring out the window, and I think I see you, not far from the church, right? Folding up an umbrella and walking into a deli on the corner of 13th and Broadway. And I thought I was going crazy, but now I think it probably was you.

    Celine: I lived on 11th and Broadway.

    Jesse: You see?