Talking about the Befores.

🎥 Before Sunrise/Sunset/Midnight_ Richard Linklater

This is the 90th night of confinement due to the coronavirus. As commuting time is saved, life becomes richer. These days, I spend the time I saved to get to work safely the next day and spend it on romance. I finally watched the Before series, which I had been waiting for for quite some time. Actually, I didn’t even know it was a series. One evening, I went to watch a movie with my mom and watched for the first time in the free movie section on TV, but it was a huge failure. Expectations that there would be a dramatic development after the father and son, who seemed to have a story, and the son’s lonely departure at the airport, were miserably dashed, and the impatient mother lost interest as the scene of the couple talking incessantly in the running car continued for over 10 minutes. I also had no choice but to press quit. After some time had passed, I happened to watch the movie again on a day when I was alone, and the only vague feeling that remained was ‘It was really good.’ I was impressed by the intensity of Ethan Hawke’s wide range of characters, including Chet Baker in and Jessie, a romantic writer in his 40s, but I didn’t realize the sublimity of the Before series at the time.

After watching and listening to the romantic novel-like yet painfully realistic story of the couple Celine and Jessie of Twenty-Three, Thirty-Two, and Forty-Something through three series, one line remained in my heart: I should have a person by my side with whom I can constantly talk. I happened to find a Twitter post that seemed to capture the message of the Before series well, so I copied it down.

People who will stay by your side for a long time need to be able to communicate well.

I think that’s correct.

Rather than simply having similar hobbies or interests,

Even if you just talk about everyday things without any topic

A person who does not feel stuffy or uncomfortable.

Someone’s post on Twitter

Looking back, Jesse and Celine had no common interests or shared hobbies. The sources of their passion and desire were completely different. One fought for a better global environment, and the other struggled to write a story that would moisturize people’s hearts. But the conversation always continued. We listened to each other really well, spoke up without hesitation, and added new topics to the topic of conversation, as if we were knitting a winter sweater to wear warmly together. Of course, as the years go by, the topics of conversation become more personal, petty, and emotional, and especially in the last series, , there are even bloody arguments, but that is reality. The fateful love story they encountered on the train is buried in Jessie’s beautiful novel, and Celine’s reality is that she is a hectic working mother raising twin daughters after remarrying a divorced man whose son is far away and always on the radar. Still, I think the reason they stay by each other’s side until the end is because they talk. Even though they scratch each other with the most outrageous words, the way they eventually ease their minds again is through a conversation while looking into each other’s eyes. Even though the conversation is meaningless and shallow role play.

The scene that made me cringe the most was the line Celine uttered in while playing on the phone with Jesse and confessing her feelings for him..!

I took a screenshot from Netflix on my phone, and maybe because of copyright, only the dialogue was captured, but it feels even better haha.

Personally, I thought Celine from was the most beautiful. She was dazzling with her intelligence and maturity. It was especially lovely to see her singing the song that Jessie dedicated her life to.