In 1995, "Before Sunrise" won the Best Director Award at the 45th Berlin International Film Festival
In 24, "Love at sunset" was nominated for the Golden Bear Award at the 54th Berlin International Film Festival
In 213, "Love" The three films are connected in series to form a life trajectory from love-marriage-giving birth to children-raising children, and also see the changes of the two leading actors from youth to middle age, which is very patient.
Let's take a look at the first film: Before Sunrise.
Director: Richard Linklater, born in Houston, Texas, USA on July 3, 196, is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, actor, photographer and editor, and graduated from Sam Houston State University.
hero: Ethan Hawke, born in Austin, Texas, USA on November 6, 197, is an American actor, director, screenwriter and writer. In addition to the trilogy "Love is ...", there are Dead Poets Society and Mo Di.
heroine: Julie Delpy, born on December 21st, 1969, is an actress, screenwriter, director, composer and producer. ? Graduated from new york University Performing Arts School, she not only loves acting, but also is full of enthusiasm for writing scripts and directing plays. She won the "Academy Award" in 25 for writing the script "Before Sunset".
Jesse, the hero: American youth, divorced parents, literary youth type, full of romance. I'm visiting my girlfriend from Madrid, but she doesn't really want to see him. So some sadly returned to the United States by train via Vienna.
Celine, the heroine: an independent woman from a middle-class family in France, who pays attention to feelings and details, has her own persistence in feelings, adventurous spirit and career pursuit. I have lived in the United States and Britain for a short time. This trip is to visit my grandmother in Budapest during my college holiday and then return to Paris to study.
Jessie met Celine on the train and they had a good talk. Then meet and get off together and spend one night in Vienna.
what will happen when single handsome guys and beautiful women are together? Everything can be imagined, and everything that should happen will come as scheduled.
The next morning, Jesse will leave by plane, and the date will end in dawn of victory. Reluctantly, they met again at the station in Vienna after half a year. In order to keep novelty, the two did not leave any contact information with each other.
The film lasts about 14 hours, showing the complete process of how two strangers get to know each other, know each other and fall in love in a super concentrated way.
Compared with many movies, this movie almost uses a dialogue between two people to prop up the whole plot.
Dialogue form: a question-and-answer game to enhance mutual understanding. The two people come and go, exchange views, and even playfully face each other honestly in the "You ask me and answer" by simulating a "call" to a friend.
conversation: it seems to be wild and unconstrained style, involving family of origin, childhood experience, love, marriage, gender relations, career, life, religion, death, science and technology ... and of course, there are also trivial and strange ideas. The hero and heroine's witty remarks are full of thought and speculation. Every seemingly casual dialogue is quite incisive, and it is worth picking out and savoring. It is also a problem that we may explore all our lives but can't understand.
filming: in Vienna, music city.
There are local urban landscapes: urban buildings, old streets, buses, video stores, restaurants, ferris wheel, bars and churches. Public cemetery, etc.
It is also permeated with the artistic atmosphere of music city. For example, passers-by who love amateur performances, impromptu poets on the banks of the Danube, prophets reading palms in the square, enthusiastic gypsy dances, record stores playing beautiful songs, mysterious and wonderful divination witches, bartenders who are considerate to sponsor red wine and so on. The romantic atmosphere in Vienna has made the feelings of two foreign youths who met for the first time gradually brew and upgrade, and gradually become romantic, ambiguous and passionate.
At the end of the movie, after dawn, the two will go their separate ways. Because they are worried that the communication after leaving contact information will destroy their initial heart, they meet at the same station in Vienna six months later. There is no phone number and address, but "I have you, you have me", and I only hope that this will be eternal.
At this time, the movie screen shows the city they once walked through, but it's empty, as if nothing had happened, it's just a dream, but the loss and nostalgia are lingering in their hearts ...
1. The reason why the movie man asked the woman to get off the bus is quite attractive. Will you be attracted to get off the train with Jesse?
Jessie: "Imagine that after 1 years and 2 years, your marriage has lost its vitality. You will miss all the men you have met in your life, and I am one of them. I am just a loser like him (husband), and then you will feel that you made the right choice and be happy for it. "
The girls were finally persuaded to venture around Vienna for one night with the boys.
2. When they meet a divination witch, their predictions are novel and full of mystery. What do you think of divination? Does the appearance of this story in the film have any special meaning?
The witch said to Celine, "You are an adventurer and explorer. You are very interested in women's strength, as well as their potential strength and creativity. You are becoming such a woman. "The witch looked at Jesse." He (Jesse) is studying. "Celine likes the witch's evaluation and is willing to pay.
Before leaving, the soothsayer said something meaningful: "You are both stars. Billions of years ago, the stars exploded, and everything in this world was formed. Everything we know is stardust, and you are stardust."
Jessie is very resistant to this, thinking that this is just a witch's way of making a living. She also mentioned that if Selena had just been replaced by an old man, the result of divination would not be a wonderful future, but a dull day after day.
3. Is life a scam?
When they talked about marriage and love, Selena asked Jessie, "Have you ever seen a truly happy couple?"
Jesse replied affirmatively, "Yes, but I think they are cheating on each other."
Selena agreed with this point of view, but after a helpless smile, she said, "People can live a life as a scam. My grandmother and my grandfather lived all their lives, until when she was old, my grandmother told me that she was obsessed with another person she loved all her life."
Selena feels that her grandmother's life is very sad, but at the same time she appreciates that her grandmother can have such feelings in her life. Jesse adds that it is right for her grandmother not to fall in love with that person, because if she really has it, it may only disappoint her grandmother: "People always have romantic imagination about everything, even though these things are not practical."
4. Do you dare to love when you are hurt?
Jesse has just been hurt by love. Even if he has a conflict in his heart, he is still willing to believe in love, otherwise he would not bravely and abruptly invite Celine to get off with him on the train.
Jessie said, "Love is a safe haven for two people who are afraid of loneliness."
Later, Jessie added, "Sometimes, I hope to be a good husband and father, but sometimes, I think it's silly to do so, as if it would ruin my life. This is not because I am afraid of commitment and I am afraid that I will not take care of people and love others. I know I can do it, but if I can't be honest with myself, even though I have done something well and have some special skills, I would rather die because I can't go against my will. "
From this passage of Jesse's, it is not difficult to find that he sometimes longs for marriage and love, and sometimes he opposes marriage and love.
Many people are eager to have the key to the contradiction between marriage and love, but they are afraid of being hurt, or because they don't want to be hurt, they don't want to approach and pay when they meet love, thinking that they won't taste the sweetness of love, so they don't have to bear the hurt of love. What do you think of this?
The movie Before Sunrise is not so rich in characters and the plot is not so ups and downs. Jessie and Selena are talking all the time. So some people call it a "chatterbox" movie.
but what it presents is more the most beautiful and true appearance of love at first. The hand that I want to touch and take back on the bus, the affectionate eye contact between the two people in the antique record store, the simulated phone call "I like the feeling that he secretly looks at me, and I like him more and more as the night falls", the romantic kiss on the Ferris wheel at dusk, and the love poem with "milkshake" written by the wandering poet are like telling their stories, and they are slightly drunk on the grass ...
If it is only love at first sight, The film deduces the process of getting along with each other step by step, which is not limited by the length of time, but determined by the depth of communication. When two people are together, they only have each other in their hearts and have endless words. Love is not caring for each other, but maybe talking endlessly. Love is two compatible souls with endless words, although they don't know what to say.
and this is the pure and beautiful appearance of love.
if life is just like the first time, what is it to draw a fan in the autumn wind?
The movie entered everyone's heart in this way, which is unforgettable.
213 is the last film in the trilogy, Love Before Midnight. The next nine years will come, and in 222, will the director still bring surprises?
attachment: relevant background information
1. The titles of the two books they read on the train
Jesse holds All I Need Is Love
Celine's Story of the Eye. -
2. A milkshake poem by a wandering poet on the Danube
Delusion Angel
-by David Jewell
Daydream Delusion. Illusion immersed in daydreaming
Limousine Eyelash blinked her long eyelashes
Oh, Baby with your pretty face oh, dear, Slip through your beautiful face
Drop a tear in my wineglass and pour a tear into my glass
Look at these big eyes and stare into your pure eyes
See what you mean to me. You are the meaning of my life
Sweet cakes and milks. Hakes is like a milkshake blended in the sweetness of a cake.
I am a deluded angel. I am like an angel emerging in a trance.
I am a fantasy parade. I want you to know what I think. How can I bear to see your heart turn again?
Don't wa. Nt you to guess anymore. But how can we two of a kind
you have no idea where I come from. I don't know where I come from
We have no idea where we're going. I don't know where our destination is
Launched in li. Fe. Just embrace life
Like branches in the river. Just like a stream will eventually flow into a river.
Flowing down.
Caught in the current. Go with the flow
I'll carry you. You'll carry me. I, I have you
hat's how it can be. It should be so
Don't you know me know my heart
Don't you know me by now. Know my heart at last
3. The fragment of the poem read by the male host Jesse
After dawn, just before parting, Two people try their best to engrave each other's appearance in their minds and reflect it in their memories. Even though the sadness of separation makes them find that they are far from free and easy as expected, Selena is lying on his lap, and Jesse is holding Selena, unconsciously reading a poem by Auden:
"The bells in the city ring at the same time. Don't be deceived by time. You can't conquer time. In worry and worry, the days pass in darkness." "
This poem is just an excerpt from the masterpiece Walking in the Night by the English poet W.H. Auden.
W.H. Auden is recognized as a famous modern poet. He was born in Britain in 197 and became an American citizen in 1946. Auden's writing, especially his poetry writing skills, is deeply influenced by the major poetry schools in Northern Europe and is recognized as the most important English poet after Eliot.
4. About Quakers
In the movie, Jesse told Celine about the Quaker wedding: two people knelt face to face and looked at each other until God's induction came to someone, otherwise no one spoke, so they looked at each other quietly and married an hour later.
The Quakers, also known as Quakers and Friends, are found on the Internet. In 1648, george fox established The Quakers.
Quaker means trembling. It is said that at the beginning of Quaker's establishment, some people trembled because of attending the party, and some people said that george fox was famous for warning the judge that he would "tremble" before God when facing the arbitration of the inquisition.
Quakers oppose external authority and complicated forms. Weddings and funerals are also extremely simple, without clergy and furnishings. Believers gather together to meditate and listen to the guidance of the Holy Spirit. Any believer who is inspired can speak or pray.
When it comes to Quaker Club, it will be associated with Quaker Oatmeal, which is popular all over the world. In 191, Henry of America