Wednesday, July 1, 2015

Before Sunset (2004)

(I know this poster is for Sunrise but it's really good so I had to use it for Sunset)

MIMDB score: 7.2
Current IMDB score: 8.1
Director: Richard Linklater
Main Actors you care about:  Ethan Hawke, Juile Delpy

Why I liked it:
This movie is different than most movies you have seen.  It's just an hour+ of straight conversation between two people.  That's it.  It could be considered really boring in that regard.  It's not though.  If you enjoy good conversation then you should enjoy this movie.  There are a lot of real life thoughts that most people will connect with because they have had them and are unable to articulate them like this movie does.  This is the second movie in the current trilogy.  Before Sunrise is where they met, Before Sunset is where they fall in love, and Before Midnight is well, I won't spoil it.

What stands out:
Conversations

What I Would Change (if anything):  For this type of movie you can't change much.  People are either going to like or find it boring.  8.1 I think is a little high for most people's liking which is why my score is lower.  I don't understand when Julie gets kind of crazy near the end.  I don't know why she lied about remembering the first time they met.  Very odd in my opinion and I would change that.

I figured out one explanation as to why she might have lied.  An explanation I like anyway.  I think she was trying to downplay the night so that he would move on with his wife instead of doing anything with her.

Favorite Line(s)/Scene:  There's a lot of good quotes in this movie.  This one I connected with the most.
"I always feel like a freak, because I'm never able to move on like... this! You know. People just have an affair, or even entire relationships... they break up and they forget! They move on like they would have changed brand of cereals! I feel I was never able to forget anyone I've been with. Because each person have... their own, specific qualities. You can never replace anyone. What is lost is lost. Each relationship, when it ends, really damages me. I never fully recover. That's why I'm very careful with getting involved, because... It hurts too much! Even getting laid! I actually don't do that... I will miss on the other person the most mundane things. Like I'm obsessed with little things. Maybe I'm crazy, but... when I was a little girl, my mom told me that I was always late to school. One day she followed me to see why. I was looking at chestnuts falling from the trees, rolling on the sidewalk, or... ants crossing the road, the way a leaf casts a shadow on a tree trunk... Little things. I think it's the same with people. I see in them little details, so specific to each of them, that move me, and that I miss, and... will always miss. You can never replace anyone, because everyone is made of such beautiful specific details."

Similar Movies/TV Shows: Before Sunrise, Before Midnight, My Dinner with Andre, and The Man from Earth.  Before Sunset is the best out of the three.  Before Midnight is the next best.  I watched them in this order: Sunset, Sunrise, Midnight.

"Side" note: Everything the characters do with their hands/body is scripted.  It looks very natural but it was mostly in the script which is kind of insane.  They have done a movie every nine years since the first movie, Before Sunrise, came out.  Nine year passes in real life and nine years passes in the movie time as well. Pretty cool.

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