"I guess when you're young you just believe there’ll be many people with whom you'll connect with. Later in life you realize it only happens a few times."
Over the week-end I watched Before Sunrise and Before Sunset. I was way overdue but i've never gotten around to it. Both were wonderful. I liked Before Sunset better I think, although most would disagree with me. In the first movie, shot in 1994, two students -she's from France, he's American, meet on the train and decide to explore Vienna together-until he has to jump on a plane in the early hours of the morning. During that one night, they discover each other, their attraction grows and you feel the passion and awkwardness. The second movie picks up in 2004, 9 years after their first meeting. Both were supposed to see each other 6 months after that faithful night in Vienna but the reunion never happened. And so here they are, older, wiser, very dissatisfied with their lives and still very much in love with each other. What stuck with me about this movie was how sometimes, in order to protect ourselves, we block out certain things or choose to imagine things in a certain way, when-in fact, it couldn't be further from the truth. She has read somewhere that he was married and with kids and so she believes him to be happy. He is rather in a stale, sex-less marriage and on his wedding day, right before arriving at the church, could think of no one else by HER. Funny how life is sometimes. Funny how two people can share something, discard it and yet carry it with them for the rest of the lives. xox
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