A return Julie Delpy, Ethan Hawke, and the Before trilogy....
So I just watched Before Sunset again, and it really hit me.
LL and I had watched the first one, Before Sunrise a few days ago and, yeah, it was a visit to a sentimental and nostalgic and “movie happening” (idealistic) time, and I felt the movie more immature than I ever felt it before, and I certainly did not feel like I had to journal about it. Watching that movie, though, my reaction to it is not just recalling when my wife and I were in Vienna, which that movie will always produce, but I was also having a reaction to when I first watched BSunrise, here in the years when LJ was still alive and I watched it for the first time, I will guess around 2004 or 5 (I am locked out of my LJ but will look that up and indeed read the journal entrries of that time...)
A time when I also watched the second one, BSunset, which must have not been out that long, a year or two maybe. But that movie was also on a second level, literally a level below the first one, to me, in quality and how it grabbed me. But WOW this time, as I watched it-and I am tired and havent slept well in couple nights-but wow I was fighting my emotions that arose within me, and I think as for it it definitely is mainly a reaction from my actual life, and not the first times I saw it way back around 2005, but besides seeing it two or three times, I hadnt seen it since before my trip to Taiwan in 2010 and this BSunset really hit a nerve as far as a first relationship that was so good (and maybe so idealistic) yet it got away and it didnt develop, and yet we hooked up again after years had passed (for us, 25 years) but I am sure because of the mention of Jessie's son, whom he loves, and his unhappy marriage and I dont know why the movie didnt touch me there that much, as I recall.... anyway it is probably because I am almost 57 and still “alone”. I dont know. I had a nice chat with LL afterwards, and she enjoyed this movie and its dialog a lot more than the first one.
So it really is almost JUST dialgog in this one, except for the song at the end, which was always one of the best scenes of it, and I ejaculated why doesnt he just reschedule his flight!!! which I cant recall if the third movie says whether he did, and as a matter of fact, I cant recall anything but the Gist of the third movie, except I know they end up arguing a LOT (a la my parents and even more to the point me and x).... and the trilogy is excellent overall, except I know I didnt like how the third movie ended up, and I dont even recall the details because I saw it only once, as compared to the first one now 5 or 6 times and the second one 3 or 5 times, and I saw the third one at the cinema when it was released (and havnt watched it since). But this trilogy is brilliantand LL has remarked about the beauty of Julie Delpy in our comments to each other post-viewing. And she agreed with my take on Mr Hawke, that I didnt really like him, and she agreed but then said he hed more depth to him when he divulged his troubles (in Bsunset) and, yeah Okay, and she happended to see him on stage once...
So I ended up telling LL about my trip to Taiwan and a smidgeon about my relationship with Sven. And also about my recent trip to my growing-up house in western Massachusetts.
So that is that. It is a cathartic feeling, rather, and emotion, not kist a reaction, but a swelling up within me that is still there, and like I hinted, this thing within , these feelings, and maybe even the regrets , will fade away with a good night's sleep, but I am still lonely and alone.
And I have so much to share with another.
PS--the thing about BSunset is the saying that when you are young you think you will meet lots and lots of people that you can related to, but it doesnt really happen; so when that does it happen, you better make the most of it...
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(Earlier entries about the Before movies in this journal:
19 September 2004: Before Sunrise I saw this and wrote this entry when the sequel wouldnt be out on dvd for two months yet
22 August 2007: second thoughts on 2 days in paris & before sunrise A quote from that post: "Ive never really liked B4 sunset that much, in comparison (to B4 Sunset)"!
LL and I had watched the first one, Before Sunrise a few days ago and, yeah, it was a visit to a sentimental and nostalgic and “movie happening” (idealistic) time, and I felt the movie more immature than I ever felt it before, and I certainly did not feel like I had to journal about it. Watching that movie, though, my reaction to it is not just recalling when my wife and I were in Vienna, which that movie will always produce, but I was also having a reaction to when I first watched BSunrise, here in the years when LJ was still alive and I watched it for the first time, I will guess around 2004 or 5 (I am locked out of my LJ but will look that up and indeed read the journal entrries of that time...)
A time when I also watched the second one, BSunset, which must have not been out that long, a year or two maybe. But that movie was also on a second level, literally a level below the first one, to me, in quality and how it grabbed me. But WOW this time, as I watched it-and I am tired and havent slept well in couple nights-but wow I was fighting my emotions that arose within me, and I think as for it it definitely is mainly a reaction from my actual life, and not the first times I saw it way back around 2005, but besides seeing it two or three times, I hadnt seen it since before my trip to Taiwan in 2010 and this BSunset really hit a nerve as far as a first relationship that was so good (and maybe so idealistic) yet it got away and it didnt develop, and yet we hooked up again after years had passed (for us, 25 years) but I am sure because of the mention of Jessie's son, whom he loves, and his unhappy marriage and I dont know why the movie didnt touch me there that much, as I recall.... anyway it is probably because I am almost 57 and still “alone”. I dont know. I had a nice chat with LL afterwards, and she enjoyed this movie and its dialog a lot more than the first one.
So it really is almost JUST dialgog in this one, except for the song at the end, which was always one of the best scenes of it, and I ejaculated why doesnt he just reschedule his flight!!! which I cant recall if the third movie says whether he did, and as a matter of fact, I cant recall anything but the Gist of the third movie, except I know they end up arguing a LOT (a la my parents and even more to the point me and x).... and the trilogy is excellent overall, except I know I didnt like how the third movie ended up, and I dont even recall the details because I saw it only once, as compared to the first one now 5 or 6 times and the second one 3 or 5 times, and I saw the third one at the cinema when it was released (and havnt watched it since). But this trilogy is brilliantand LL has remarked about the beauty of Julie Delpy in our comments to each other post-viewing. And she agreed with my take on Mr Hawke, that I didnt really like him, and she agreed but then said he hed more depth to him when he divulged his troubles (in Bsunset) and, yeah Okay, and she happended to see him on stage once...
So I ended up telling LL about my trip to Taiwan and a smidgeon about my relationship with Sven. And also about my recent trip to my growing-up house in western Massachusetts.
So that is that. It is a cathartic feeling, rather, and emotion, not kist a reaction, but a swelling up within me that is still there, and like I hinted, this thing within , these feelings, and maybe even the regrets , will fade away with a good night's sleep, but I am still lonely and alone.
And I have so much to share with another.
PS--the thing about BSunset is the saying that when you are young you think you will meet lots and lots of people that you can related to, but it doesnt really happen; so when that does it happen, you better make the most of it...
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(Earlier entries about the Before movies in this journal:
19 September 2004: Before Sunrise I saw this and wrote this entry when the sequel wouldnt be out on dvd for two months yet
22 August 2007: second thoughts on 2 days in paris & before sunrise A quote from that post: "Ive never really liked B4 sunset that much, in comparison (to B4 Sunset)"!