after watching Gerwig's Little Women, I recall Celine's lines from Before Sunrise. Celine's character has a paralleling image that aligns with Jo from Little Women; they both want to make achievements and fulfill their dreams, to earn affirmation from others and to prove that they are capable of accomplishing their goals, but they also want to be loved. Compared to Jo, Celine is more self-aware of herself, with the inner yearning to love and be loved, while Jo, on the other hand, perhaps due to the societal pressure at the time, she prioritizes career & ambision over love & intimate relationship. Jo grows up thinking she doesn't need love or companionship, and that choosing those means sacrificing her dream to becoming a successful writer; yet at some point Jo realizes the loneliness she has been trying to run away from, which derives from her escapism of love. What distinguishes these two characters (Celine & Jo), is that Celine doesn't let her ego devour her desire for love (and that may has something to do with the story's time setting), so she's able to experience the feeling of loving people and being loved.
This movie showed how humans get.afraid of something they can't explain, which is why that second blast hit him, whomever that was probably thought. They aren't ready, if they are afraid of this one person, how do you think they would react to us. Notice only the children were not judging him, also they.knew he was well liked in town and.everyone but 5 ppl weren't afraid. This would happen in the world today, trust me.
I watched this movie when i was a teenager and now i’m in my 20s, it’s a different feelings i understand what they are saying now as i experience life and pondering life more
I watched this movie when i was a teenager and now i’m in my 20s, it’s a different feelings i understand what they are saying now as i experience life and pondering life more
... it's kind of like if you dance around spirituality long enough, or more importantly deeply enough, at a certain point you kind of get the feeling that the whole game shifts, and it's not really *you* chasing God but God chasing you?
I moved cities for this man I was in a long distance relationship with. After a year of living together we broke up recently. I moved back to my hometown and I'm losing all my faith in love. I had dreamt of getting married and having children with him, being old together. Life is strange but Love is stranger. I'm heartbroken and I feel like giving up on finding real love ever again. I'm shattered to say the least. People who fall in love and stay in love despite the odds are the luckiest people on earth and I get jealous of them sometimes. Maybe not everyone ends up having a soulmate, maybe some of us just end up being lonely souls ourselves. Sigh.
I lived in Germany, near the border with France back in those days, 89-91, just a little before the time this movie is set. I can swear to you that it is ALL 100% real, the streets, riding the trains, the whole mood, and yes; as a young man I dated a few girls, both German and French and the openness with which they talk, like Celine, juxtaposed with the cussing, being super opinionated, a bit pushy but also super warm and open. Yeah, it was like that. Her name was Yvonne Kallenborn, from a small town outside Stuttgart. Still, to this day, I'm not sure why we let it end when neither of us really did; but I know i had to move to another city, so that was part of it. So this movie, and the next, are like time machines, and I'm sure someday I'll be watching them in a rocker in some nursing home, just waiting to die. Don't let love pass you by, please! There are no guarantees that there will be more of it just down the road
So prescient, when you think about the other 2 movies and how they were 18 years later. She still wants love, and everything she does, even the neurotic, pushing away stuff is to reassure herself that yes, she is still loved. Jesse still wants to be a good dad, but didn't want to be in a so so relationship just going through the motions. He said "I really want to be good at one thing" but in the end he chose to be good at loving Celine, being a writer and a dad came after. That's romantic!
Skeptics.tend to poo hoo movies like this. But believers understand that when God's science doesn't mix with man's science is when God stands out. Resulting in miracles.
In my teens and early twenties I thought their conversations were very deep and meaningful. Now that I’m in my mid thirties I realize that these are just two people with no care in the world other than romanticising everything around them. My husband and I fell in love during our study trip to Paris and it was magical. 15 years and two kids later our love and bond is still very strong, but we haven’t had those kind of conversations for years😂 The reality is that when you first meet someone that you’re very attracted to, you always try to portray the best version of yourself, but after a few months or a few years when the fierce excitement of being around that person fades away, those deep conversations turn into conversations about daily struggles of life, which often leads to arguments and deep dissatisfaction from both sides. That’s why Before Midnight is the most realistic movie out of these three. It might not be as romantic or satisfying to watch as the first two, but it portrays the reality of long term relationships very accurately.
And some people are driven to understand someone as a defence mechanism against their own fears and not for some principle of love or larger moral achievement -- its just to save them and to make things better for themselves.
All the genius in the world and too naive to know people are going to be scared and angry at him. Look what they did to Jesus... if u believe that story, bc I don't.
Human beings are not inherently good. And of course we're not inherently evil either (depending on who is measuring). But we are most definitely inherently self-centered; selfish; self-serving. Even when we being charitable, most of the time it's because of how it makes US feel or think about ourselves. Gratefully, this is not the end of the story.
BEFORE SUNRISE SCRIPT (CELINE AND JESSE CONVERSATION) (start of talking while walking) CELINE: wait a minute. Talking seriously here. I mean, I always feel this pressure of being a strong and independent icon of womanhood And not making it look like my whole life is revolving around some guy. (stop jesse from walking and continue to the next line) But, loving someone and being loved means so much to me. (stop for a second) I always make fun of it and stuff, but isn’t everything we do in life a way to be loved a little more? (jesse sit first then celine)(the start talking) JESSE: I don’t know, sometimes I dream, about being a good father and a good husband. And sometimes it feels really close. But then other times, it seems silly like it would ruin my life. And its not just a fear of commitment or that I'm incapable of caring or loving because, I can It’s just that, if I'm totally honest with myself, I think I rather die knowing that I was really good at something. That I had excelled in some way that that id just been in a nice, caring relationship. (after jesse talks count 5 sec before talking celine) CELINE: I had worked for this older man, and once he told me that he spends all his life thinking about his career, and his work He was 52, and it suddenly struck him, that he had never really given anything of himself. His life was for no one and nothing. He was almost crying saying that. (stops for 5 second) I believe if there’s any kind of God, it wouldn’t be in any of us, Not you or me But just this little space in between. (stop again for a second) If there’s any kind of magic in this world, it must be in the attempt of understanding someone sharing something. I know, it’s almost impossible to succeed, but who cares really? The answer must be in the attempt. (look at each other and smile)
Perfectly accurate description of how people would treat someone like that, or worse, if it ever happen. The fear, the "why can't I do what you did" crowd, people who refuse to listen and only demand you answer their questions with the answers they want to hear, etc 😂
its like how people assume anyone with muscles or money cheated or something when there a lot to it and some easy that some just cant understand but with this its tenfold
One of the problems with this scene, is its suggested he is incredibly smart, but he didn't seem to apply or try applying it to human behavior. He seemed to be caught completely off guard by their questions, imagination, and theories. I would think, if he was prepared, he would have led them to truth using a more practical way, like through more stories and less tricks. You can't expect the folks who grew up looking at sub dimensional shadows on a cave wall to suddenly embrace the outside.