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It's no longer "romantic kicks", it's "necessary"
by Yahoo! Movies User (movies profile)
Dec 25, 2005
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10 people found this review helpful
This is a real-time movie. Really. I mean, even if in the reality, it is in real-time. The audience have waited for 9 years to get to know what happen to the two characters, or, would there be anything that follows...
In the first movie, Before Sunrise, when I first saw them met on the train, I knew, immediately, that they will not be together. After all, like they said, it woould be nothing after two people have been writing, talking on phone, blah, blah, blah, for several times. It's just not romantic enough. And I regard Sunrise as a "French-like" movie, French-like movies can't end like... uh... something like Along Came Polly, or 50 First Dates. You know, they are just of different levels.
However, in Sunset, they met again. After nine years, I thought the feelings would be the same. Just a brief contact, and no more. But, when I saw Celine, and then Jesse, somehow showed tears during the talking and talking and talking in the limo, then I know, it is too... cruel to once-again separate them. Especially when Celine pretended not to remember the sex that night, and then turned out to remember even more than Jesse did, this relationship is no longer some "romantic kicks". It becomes all necessary. I mean they both need one another, like... to complete their souls or something. The fact that they kept on talking and talking and talking is something very solid, to explain they are "completing souls". They never get bored, the talking is just for their souls. And this is in fact what rules out "sex" from "love". Love is... I would say, irreplaceable. Definitely not "sex". Remember they were talking about "sex" and "love" in Sunrise? What I'm trying to say is all lying on the word "necessary". They cannot be separated again, perhaps six months is okay, but definitely not another nine years. However, they are all in their own love relationships, which are appearently not easy to cut off. Jesse even has a child, am I correct? I guess that's why the film ends with "You're gonna miss your plane" and "I know". Because at that moment, Jesse decided that he could not leave Celine again.
Will there be any third? Like "Under the Full Moon" or something like that? I don't think so. Jesse and Celine are together. They are now. And they will be, forever. May not be physically, but definitely...... "soully", I would say. To make it physical will only require them to fill out some papers, you know, make the divorce, dump the child to orphanage,.... I don't care, it's none of my business. What I'm trying to say is, the story is over, and they are together. Even if the director decides to make the third, "Under Full Moon", or "Before Noon"... the reason would only be he needs to make some bucks, no more. Because Jesse and Celine are together, and I'm very, very happy with that. |
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