Good news!!!! I FINALLY WATCHED BEFORE SUNRISE. I remember this being recommended to me when I was in high school.
Here is a compilation of my thoughts AKA tweets:
- Kalat + stupid tweet, but naisip ko lang how dating is a hassle. If you act like your true self without reservations, it would sting a bit if you can’t be liked for that (at least, in my case) but if u don’t show your true self, then you’re potentially letting someone fall in love with a lie and you'll have to fake it for God knows how long.
- Why am I not a gorgeous French woman who meets a guy on a train who then strikes up a convo with me and asks me to get off at Vienna, just why
- Sometimes your true self also doesn't really want do anything like, "Man I just wanna lie down and browse Twitter, sorry"
- Naisip ko lang din yung sinabi ni Celine na the things we do are only for us to be loved even more... so we're still not being true, but I understand that humans are walking contradictions. So there’s that.
- Buti na lang self-aware naman pala si Jesse about spouting too much pretentious BS for the sake of ~socializing~ or whatever, pero ha! gusto ko kay sa kanya is that just when he makes me think he's a prick, he says/shows something that gets me to think otherwise. It's like being at the edge of a cliff and I’m somewhere in between falling and staying still haha idk
- Ang swabe ng script IMO. Gusto ko ngang basahin yung buong script mismo hahaha. Ang ganda nung sinabi din ni Jesse:
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.
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.
Some background story:
Iniiwasan ko talaga itong Before Trilogy kasi I initially
thought it would be boring, kasi centered nga sa conversations yung movie.
Then, for a time, nung sumali ako sa art-oriented na Facebook group some years
back, I’d see this on my feed every week and I had that “I’m not like other
girls” mentality and all that bullshit. (I’m no longer this person, please
forgive me)
More thoughts:
- Eventually, I thought it might be overrated lang, but as it turns out, the movie deserves the hype it gets. I particularly liked that bit in the end where they show the spots where Jesse & Celine hung out but without them, like some montage. It made me think that Europe MAY be overrated but not with the right company. Like, with them, may pull, may magic, kumbaga. Pero sa part na yun—after the sunrise, if you will—nawala yung magic, ang bland na ng bawat place tignan kung tutuusin. It's just another fountain, just another patch of grass, but the movie made it ~A Moment™~ because of Celine and Jesse.
- Additionally, it was an “awwie” moment that Jessie was the one who first mentioned about meeting up again when Celine was about to board the train kaya I cannot conclude totally na he's an asshole. I guess it's the movie's way of showing that assholes deserve to be loved, thus endangering my lovelife again and painting dickheads in another light hahaha (but that’s another story but nothing to be worried about as I am currently manhid)
- I initially expected Celine to be the sentimental, romantic one but she turned out to be the rational one, which was nice. Bottomline, ganda ng characterization. Layered. A woman can be in search of the true essence of divine femininity (and in search of it within her) and buy into the whole astrology thing but she does not necessarily fall in love with the next guy who shows intent... On the other side of the fence, a guy being a dick does not automatically translate to heartlessness. I like how this was better portrayed here. Siguro, it was nice to have seen this kasi now it shows me how heavy-handed yung portrayal ng ganitong stereotype sa ibang films/shows. Jesse was basically a lovable asshole whereas Celine was the careful romantic. Ang nice na it wasn’t "Jesse is blue and Celine is red" because in truth, Jesse had many specks of color in him as did Celine.
CONCLUSION:
ok
so dami kong nasabi di ba haha movie was that good.