Wow... It's been more than a year since I blogged. When it was last time around, when I wrote, it was more because someone told me I should. Now, I think I have a reason. I want to put down the memories and my opinions of the wonderful movies I watch. Now that I have a BETTER reason to write, maybe I think I should keep writing... Memories are wonderful things, if you don't have to deal with it... This is about two movies, a sequel of which the first part was released in 1995 and the second part in 2004. Before sunrise and Before sunset. If I was to comment about the movies in a single word, I would carefully use the word..."beautiful" Both the movies do not have an extravagant star cast. In fact, there are JUST the two of them, the guy and the girl, who for the most part of the movie were not even "acting", rather they were trying to BE Jesse and Celine. The screenplay was so simple that you would think it's not a movie at all. It's like a pleasant chronicle of something from your dream on a cozy sunday afternoon, when you're lonely, you wish you had someone like that to talk to, about anything and everything...

Part one starts with the average american guy who is going around Europe, who happens to meet this cute French girl on a train. He asks her if she would get down from the train in Vienna to spend a night with him, till he gets on a flight to the US, next morning. She says "yes"!

They start walking around, sharing thoughts, feelings and comfort with each other. They meet strange people. They end up having a wonderful time together for the entire night. And when it comes a time when they have to go their own ways, they decide they will not exchange numbers, instead they will meet in the same railway station EXACTLY 6 months later. Part one ends there, abruptly? Beauty lies in the eye of the beholder, the director leaves it to us to decide what happened next...
I had guessed, considering the culture and the type of relationships the western world is used to having, that these two would never meet again... They would both conveniently forget that they have to meet at the same station 6 months later. But there was something special in the way the director had portrayed this couple, that we are made to wish, let them meet again.

As it turns out, they eventually do not meet after 6 months, but they both have their memories about each other, deeply enough that they wish they had exchanged numbers.
Part two starts of here, when the guy has published a successful book about that night he had spent with this girl. She had read that he was coming to Paris and she comes down to a book shop to meet him.
They both set out to the street when the guy says that he has about an hour before the flight to the US.
They start talking. The guy asks her if she had sweet memories about him, when she says "Memories are wonderful things, if you don't have to deal with it...".
How meaningful ! I reckon that's exactly how much memories mean to us. I think... It is great to think about something sweet or bitter, that has happened in our life. But it's not that we always enjoy them, however sweet they are. Someone once said, Memories are these strange things, we laugh about them when we think about the sad times we had and we cry about them when we think about the happy times we had... But memories whether happy or sad, I guess do not affect us so much if we just have to think about it and not to DEAL with it...
The movie goes on with the two, sharing their lives' experiences and the way they wished and argued about the way their lives could have been different, had they met 6 months after their first night together.
I feel that, this is where the director allows us to guess again...
Would their lives, or OUR lives have been any different, had we made different choices or if the turn of events had been any different from the way it actually DID occur?
I guess the answer to this was in the movie from two different perspectives, I think I liked the girl's way of putting it... "This is how it was to happen. This is what happened. And whatever happened has happened for good. It's not fair to keep thinking, What if... I wish...
The part two also ends in the same sweet way that the first one did. You name it... you got it...
I have always had the opinion that sequels have never lived up to our expectations. But if we expected something good from this sequel, the crew did not disappoint us at all... A sweet sequel that will remain as one of the most romantic movies I(guess many people) have ever seen...