Before Sunrise, Before Sunset

This summer break, I have been busy doing marathons on movies, that is, and I watched a lot of interesting ones, those that I have been wanting to watch but did not have the resources (time, dvd, links, etc). So this summer break has been a great opportunity to spend my time for those stuff. Thanks to my helpful 'friend', I got this amazing website that just supplies what I need.


The movies that I ticked off of the list are:

• The Proposal. (very hilariously heart-warming, and Ryan Reynolds is just so HOT!)
• Jumper. (pretty good concept, if someone asked me what superpower I'd like to have, then I'd pick this one fo sure. It's like apparating in a modern-not-a-wizarding-way way. lol)
• Angus, Thongs, and Perfect Snogging. (too teenflicky -- I mean if I was 14, I'd probably would have liked this so much but then I had to watch it because everyone else was talking about it...and yeah, well Aaron Johnson was so freakin cute on this movie, and the British accents, oh boy I could listen to it all day!)
• The Gods Must Be Crazy. (the 1980's classic, omg I am just so thankful I have come across this movie..Philosophy + Clean humor, in one film, very very classic. One of my top faves of all time) 
• and a couple of episodes from House M.D. and Skins UK (just to catch up on what I've missed). 

But the one special movie that has caught up my interest was Before Sunrise (1995). I googled something about top movies of all times (Okay I know what you're thinkin' but well it was worth the shot), and this movie kept on appearing on all the lists I have seen on almost every article I've read. So I thought, I could watch the trailer and see if it really proves it's worth, because I wasn't convinced with the movie poster. Well I guess it's just like the way they say it when it comes to books, that you don't judge it by it's cover. It's kinda same with the movie and it's poster. Okay so much about the poster. LOL. I'll just talk about how this movie and it's sequel produced 9 years after, Before Sunset (2004) touched me inside that I didn't know any film could do.

The movies, I must fearlessly say, has been one of the BEST movies I have seen in my ENTIRE LIFE yet. And the caps are there to emphasize it. You can call me whatever you want basing on this post but I have never cried so hard because of a movie as I have been with this. Like literally, I have been like a total mess with all the tears. And I cried like a baby, by that I mean like I sobbed with sounds coming from my mouth uncontrollably. 

In my opinion, the movie and it's sequel are very underrated. But I think it is just perfect that it is that way because that is what makes it even more special…apart from the very witty conversations and how the actors are just so natural, Hawke and Delpy, and the European setting, and just EVERYTHING about the movie. It is like a treasure, like, it is meant to be hidden deep, only to be found to those who are eager to find it, or to have the 'map' or 'compass', I should say. Well those things could be anything to any person, but I guess for me, they were...the links from google. (Har de har har).

Anyhow going back, It is that kind of movie that you cannot get over with for a couple of days, and when you do, there is always that part of your consciousness that reminds you about how everything went..the scenes, the conversation, the feeling and the mood. It is as if you are a part of the movie. And I think that every great movie should be like that. Like, the viewers should not be a viewer only, he/she should be part of the scene. There should be a connection between the characters and the audience. And as for me, I felt connected to the characters, and the emotions they are portraying through their lines and stuff they do on screen. It was as if, it was for me to see, for me to witness, to hear, to understand, to feel. I know I'm going so deep into this and I don't even know if I sound logical or I'm losing it but, I guess it's just have to be that way, you just have to feel it in an art that is this film, to make it one of your top favorites. I'm even afraid to look at the movie poster because the mixture of feelings, the ambivalence, all the feelings, is still there, and it brings a twinge to my heart. Man am I that fucked up already? I don't know. 

I am really glad I came across and witnessed this piece of art by Director Richard Linklater. I've never fallen in love with such good characters since (500) Days of Summer.