you met, talked all night, felt a strong connection. but you let each other slipped out of your lives. you were both young, in the early 20s. you think life was full of endless possibilities~~ you let fate decide if you shall ever meet again~ and you never did.
has this ever happened to you?
Yes?
before sunrise(1995).
he, the america, she, the french, met on a train in australia, spent a night in venice~ they walked around in the streets and they talked and talked~~ they only had one night. in the morning, he needed to catch a flight back to america. before they went different ways, they decided they would meet again in 6 months if both of them could make it. they didn't bother to get each other's contact information or last names....
before sunset(2004)
BeforeSunSet 
9 years later, he wrote a book about the night they spent together. She showed up at his book signing event in a bookstore in paris .
"have i changed?" they asked each other~~. "no." each answered....with a smile.
9 years have passed~~ the movie slowly revealed that they never found the same connection they felt for each other with another person. the chemistry they shared at that time was truly a once in a life time experience for both.
again, he needs to leave before sunset to catch a flight back to america. however, they keep talking like there is no tomorrow just like that one night 9 years ago.
the sun starts to set in the west. what will they do differently this time? now they both have grown up. so grown up that he is already married~~ they found each other a little too early 9 years ago, and a little too late now. what will you do?
I sighed deeply at the end of both films. how often do we find that someone special? how easily do we let them go?
remember the scenes from Meet Joe Black? they met in a coffee shop~~ lightning stroked~~ they felt the attraction for each other instantly. after they walked out of the coffee shop, she turned left and he turned right. as they started to walk away from each other in the opposite directions, each one looked back at the other, hoping the other would look back at the same time, then looked away coz they missed each other by a few seconds. In the end, they looked back one more time, hesitated, then disappeared around the corner.
will they keep pondering about this incident happened on a early monday morning? probably~
being young is working against us. we are only at the beginning of the journey. we don't know we need to cherish each other and whatever opportunity we have to be together. we toss things away thinking we can find the same thing or something better at the next corner. Will we??? It’s for us to find out~~
considering the years they are made in, before sunrise/sunset are not really for our generation. however, it serves the purpose of a big red warning sign. history repeats itself, doesn't it?
Wednesday, October 20, 2004
Before Sunset
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You know the films were made for my generation. As I am about to turn
31. Everything in it was so true as the film were like a thousand of
my conversations almagamated into one. It happenned to me but you
don't really not apreciate it, you do hold onto it as hard as you can,
but the force of live moves on, and even if they did get together, it
probably would not remain as it was. But oh are we not better and
happier to have experienced it, and will we not take it to our grave.
We might have promised that not knowing if it is true but nine years
(or whatever later) you suddenly have the knowledge that indeed you
will and the beauty of the film is that they each found out that other
did as well.
yan
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