why do you watch movies, whether it's on theater or on DVD?
what the things in the world made you to watch movies?
is it because your friends ask you to hang out and suddenly all of you just got nothing to do and then you decide to watch some movies in cinema?
is it because you looking for an entertainment, just to step outside for a while from your daily routine?
is it because the movie itself is a blockbuster movie that everyone is waiting for and you don't want to miss the hype?
is it because you get a lot of good recommendation about the movie?
i don't know, maybe there's other reasons that back you up to watch some movies. but for sure, i always remember what the one of my lecturer had said about this;
of course there are a lot of great movies i've ever watched. some of them you can see it on my facebook profile. i still put The Sound of Music (1965) as my the-most-favorite-movie-ever because of their drama of family and love, thriller, war, and musical.
but recently i watched some movies that really touched me in a way.
those movies told about relationship between man and woman transparently and psychologically logic. those movies gave the viewer a lot of beautiful scene and scenery. those movies gave a lot of nice thought of human thinks about their world.
if you plan to go to Europe, at least Vienna or Paris, because those movies gave you a little trip around the city, the exotic places, the non-tourists places. those movies is also fit for those who experienced some problem in their relationship. those movies is a great example of the nature of relationship between man and woman; interesting of each other, get comfortable, talking about anything, getting fight, and reconciliation.those movies is a perfect example of the nature of relationship; falling in love with someone, lose her/him, and you'll understand.
ok, i have to admit that this not a regular-commercial movie. it has no action-gun-shot scene. it has no explicit-sex-or-nude-scene. it has no sophisticated-visual-and-sound-effect. it only has two characters dominating the whole movie, walking around beautiful places, and has tons of (beautiful and smart) dialogues. for my self, i consider it as a festival-class movies.
ok, let's go to the point.
do you ever know about Before Sunrise (1995)?
plays a very strong character of Jesse (Ethan Hawke), an USA guy who travelled in Vienna and suddenly meet a Parisian girl who just visited her grandmother, Celine (Julie Delpy). after a very nice conversation and a great time spending ever in the heart of this beautiful city, they splitted out without exchange any contact information.
if you don't know about the movie, go and run to DVD rental near your house and buy or rent them! or if you don't have any money but you have a good internet connection, watch them online at http://www.watch-movies-links.net/i want to share the memorable quotes from this movie (credit to imdb).
hope these quotes can help you to describe or to remind you how the movie goes on.
it starts from their meeting on the train that will alight in Vienna.
and i want to share my the-most-favorite-scene-ever in this movie (credit to youtube).
at some music store, they are looking around and Jesse impulsively ask Celine to try some LP in the some kind of a-box-for-trying-LPs.
song that played:
Come Here by Kath Bloom
PS: i already prepared a sequel post about the movie's sequel ;p
what the things in the world made you to watch movies?
is it because your friends ask you to hang out and suddenly all of you just got nothing to do and then you decide to watch some movies in cinema?
is it because you looking for an entertainment, just to step outside for a while from your daily routine?
is it because the movie itself is a blockbuster movie that everyone is waiting for and you don't want to miss the hype?
is it because you get a lot of good recommendation about the movie?
i don't know, maybe there's other reasons that back you up to watch some movies. but for sure, i always remember what the one of my lecturer had said about this;
maybe people watch movie because they are (want to) looking for some part of their self in the moviethe first time i heard that, i didn't agree with him. but time after time, i began to accept that sentence and made some kind of justification in my self about why i keep watching movies until now.
of course there are a lot of great movies i've ever watched. some of them you can see it on my facebook profile. i still put The Sound of Music (1965) as my the-most-favorite-movie-ever because of their drama of family and love, thriller, war, and musical.
but recently i watched some movies that really touched me in a way.
those movies told about relationship between man and woman transparently and psychologically logic. those movies gave the viewer a lot of beautiful scene and scenery. those movies gave a lot of nice thought of human thinks about their world.
if you plan to go to Europe, at least Vienna or Paris, because those movies gave you a little trip around the city, the exotic places, the non-tourists places. those movies is also fit for those who experienced some problem in their relationship. those movies is a great example of the nature of relationship between man and woman; interesting of each other, get comfortable, talking about anything, getting fight, and reconciliation.those movies is a perfect example of the nature of relationship; falling in love with someone, lose her/him, and you'll understand.
ok, i have to admit that this not a regular-commercial movie. it has no action-gun-shot scene. it has no explicit-sex-or-nude-scene. it has no sophisticated-visual-and-sound-effect. it only has two characters dominating the whole movie, walking around beautiful places, and has tons of (beautiful and smart) dialogues. for my self, i consider it as a festival-class movies.
ok, let's go to the point.
do you ever know about Before Sunrise (1995)?
plays a very strong character of Jesse (Ethan Hawke), an USA guy who travelled in Vienna and suddenly meet a Parisian girl who just visited her grandmother, Celine (Julie Delpy). after a very nice conversation and a great time spending ever in the heart of this beautiful city, they splitted out without exchange any contact information.
if you don't know about the movie, go and run to DVD rental near your house and buy or rent them! or if you don't have any money but you have a good internet connection, watch them online at http://www.watch-movies-links.net/i want to share the memorable quotes from this movie (credit to imdb).
hope these quotes can help you to describe or to remind you how the movie goes on.
it starts from their meeting on the train that will alight in Vienna.
Jesse: Alright, I have an admittedly insane idea, but if I don't ask you this it's just, uh, you know, it's gonna haunt me the rest of my life
Celine: What?
Jesse: Um... I want to keep talking to you, y'know. I have no idea what your situation is, but, uh, but I feel like we have some kind of, uh, connection. Right?
Celine: Yeah, me too.
Jesse: Yeah, right, well, great. So listen, so here's the deal. This is what we should do. You should get off the train with me here in Vienna, and come check out the capital.
Celine: What?
Jesse: Come on. It'll be fun. Come on.
Celine: What would we do?
Jesse: Umm, I don't know. All I know is I have to catch an Austrian Airlines flight tomorrow morning at 9:30 and I don't really have enough money for a hotel, so I was just going to walk around, and it would be a lot more fun if you came with me. And if I turn out to be some kind of psycho, you know, you just get on the next train.
Jesse: Alright, alright. Think of it like this: jump ahead, ten, twenty years, okay, and you're married. Only your marriage doesn't have that same energy that it used to have, y'know. You start to blame your husband. You start to think about all those guys you've met in your life and what might have happened if you'd picked up with one of them, right? Well, I'm one of those guys. That's me y'know, so think of this as time travel, from then, to now, to find out what you're missing out on. See, what this really could be is a gigantic favor to both you and your future husband to find out that you're not missing out on anything. I'm just as big a loser as he is, totally unmotivated, totally boring, and, uh, you made the right choice, and you're really happy.
Celine: Let me get my bag.
Celine: You know, I have this awful paranoid thought that feminism was mostly invented by men so that they could like, fool around a little more. You know, women, free your minds, free your bodies, sleep with me. We're all happy and free as long as I can fuck as much as I want.
Jesse: I don't know, I think that if I could just accept the fact that my life is supposed to be difficult. You know, that's what to be expected, then I might not get so pissed-off about it and I'll just be glad when something nice happens.
Celine: I had worked for this old man and once he told me that he had spent his whole life thinking about his career and his work. And he was fifty-two and it suddenly struck him that he had never really given anything of himself. His life was for no one and nothing. He was almost crying saying that.
Jesse: You know what's the worst thing about somebody breaking up with you? It's when you remember how little you thought about the people you broke up with and you realize that is how little they're thinking of you. You know, you'd like to think you're both in all this pain but they're just like "Hey, I'm glad you're gone".
Jesse: OK, well this was my thought: 50,000 years ago, there are not even a million people on the planet. 10,000 years ago, there's, like, two million people on the planet. Now there's between five and six billion people on the planet, right? Now, if we all have our own, like, individual, unique soul, right, where do they all come from? You know, are modern souls only a fraction of the original souls? 'Cause if they are, that represents a 5,000 to 1 split of each soul in the last 50,000 years, which is, like, a blip in the Earth's time. You know, so at best we're like these tiny fractions of people, you know, walking... I mean, is that why we're so scattered? You know, is that why we're all so specialized?
Celine: I don't know. Wait a minute, I'm not sure... I don't...
Jesse: Yeah, hang on, hang on. It's a, it's a totally scattered thought. It... which is kind of why it makes sense.
[during in the church]
Celine: Even though I reject most of the religious things I can't help but feeling for all those people that come here lost or in pain, guilt, looking for some kind of answers. It fascinates me how a single place can join so much pain and happiness for so many generations.
Jesse: You know what drives me crazy? It's all these people talking about how great technology is, and how it saves all this time. But, what good is saved time, if nobody uses it? If it just turns into more busy work. You never hear somebody say, "With the time I've saved by using my word processor, I'm gonna go to a Zen monastery and hang out". I mean, you never hear that.
Jesse: Yeah. So, uh, were we having our first fight back there?
Celine: [pause]
Jesse: Yeah, I think so, I think we were.
Celine: Well, even if we were a little bit, y'know. Why does everyone think conflict is so bad. There's a lot of good things coming out of conflict.
Jesse: Would you be in Paris by now, if you hadn't gotten off the train with me?
Celine: No not yet. What would you be doing?
Jesse: I'd probably be hanging around the airport, reading old magazines, crying in my coffee cause you didn't come with me.
Celine: Aww... Actually, I think I'd probably have gotten off the train in Salsburg with someone else.
Jesse: Oh, yeah? Oh, I see. So, I'm just that dumb American momentarily decorating your blank canvas.
Celine: I'm having a great time.
Jesse: Me too.
Jesse: I feel like this is, uh, some dream world we're in, y'know.
Celine: Yeah, it's so weird. It's like our time together is just ours. It's our own creation. It must be like I'm in your dream, and you in mine, or something.
Jesse: And what's so cool is that this whole evening, all our time together, shouldn't officially be happening.
Celine: Yeah, I know. Maybe that's why this feels so otherworldly.
Jesse: I know what you mean about wishing somebody wasn't there, though. It's just usually it's myself that I wish I could get away from. Seriously, think about this. I have never been anywhere that I haven't been. I've never had a kiss when I wasn't one of the kissers. Y'know, I've never, um, gone to the movies, when I wasn't there in the audience. I've never been out bowling, if I wasn't there, y'know making some stupid joke. I think that's why so many people hate themselves. Seriously, it's just they are sick to death of being around themselves.
Jesse: Let's say that you and I were together all the time, then you'd start to hate a lot of my mannerisms. The way every time we would have people over, uh, I'd be insecure, and I'd get a little too drunk. Or, uh, the way I'd tell the same stupid pseudo-intellectual story again, and again. Y'see, I've heard all those stories. So of course I'm sick of myself. But being with you, uh, it's made me feel like I'm somebody else.
Jesse: Listen, if somebody gave me the choice right now, of to never see you again or to marry you, alright, I would marry you, alright. And maybe that's a lot of romantic bullshit, but people have gotten married for a lot less.
Celine: Actually, I think I had decided I wanted to sleep with you when we got off the train. But now that we've talked so much, I don't know anymore.
Jesse: This friend of mine had a kid, and it was a home birth, so he was there helping out and everything. And he said at that profound moment of birth, he was watching this child, experiencing life for the first time, I mean, trying to take its first breath... all he could think about was that he was looking at something that was gonna die someday. He just couldn't get it out of his head. And I think that's so true, I mean, all - everything is so finite. But don't you think that that's what, makes our time, at specific moments, so important?
Celine: Yeah, I know. It's the same for us, tonight, though. After tomorrow morning, we're probably never going to see each other again, right?
Celine: We, maybe we should try something different. I mean, it's no so bad if tonight is our only night, right? People always exchange phone numbers, addresses, they end up writing once, calling each other once or twice...
Jesse: Right. Fizzles out. Yeah, I mean, I don't want that. I hate that.
Celine: I hate that too, y'know.
Jesse: Why do you think everybody thinks relationships are supposed to last forever anyway?
Celine: Yeah, why. It's stupid.
Celine: Maybe we should meet here in five years or something.
Jesse: All right, all right, five year- Five years! That's a long time!
Celine: It's awful! It's like a sociological experiment!
Jesse: [stops Celine and positions her in front of him at arm's length]
Celine: What?
Jesse: Uh... I'm gonna take your picture. So I never forget you or, uh, or all this.
Celine: Okay. Me too.
and i want to share my the-most-favorite-scene-ever in this movie (credit to youtube).
at some music store, they are looking around and Jesse impulsively ask Celine to try some LP in the some kind of a-box-for-trying-LPs.
song that played:
There's wind that blows in from the north
And it says that loving takes this course
Come here, come here
No I'm not impossible to touch
I have never wanted you so much
Come here, come here
Have I never laid down by your side
Baby, let's forget about this pride
Come here, come here
Well I'm in no hurry
Don't have to run away this time
I know you're timid.
But it's gonna be all right this time...
Come Here by Kath Bloom
PS: i already prepared a sequel post about the movie's sequel ;p
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