Before Sunrise
I would never have expected myself to watch this movie. There was a long time when I disliked romatic love stories, but I have to admit that this story (again) is something between thoughtfulness and Hollywood romance: On the one hand, the whole story lives through its characters and their interesting dialogue; on the other hand, these dialogues are rather generic and not particularily intelligent. (“We are just a fraction of the people from 50000 year ago?” Huh?) However, I liked when they talked about personal things and their feelings, and… love – that’s so much better than talking about ‘bigger’ things such as politics, religion, or ‘humans’ in general.
Ah, Julie Delpy is oh so lovely. I love her! Not because she’s a good actress (after all she seems to be playing the same person all the time), but because of her looks: her slightly ondulated hair, her charming smile that gives off a very feminine air, her not particularily intelligent, but beautiful and kind of sophisticated eyes. She’s attractive and even though she appears mature (and therefore not at all innocent), you would never project any sexual desires on her. A sex scene with her does not feel like a sex scene XD She makes the way they flirt with each other so natural and not awkward at all.
And when she frowns, she looks like a woman who had never any problems in life and is able to spend all her time thinking about love. In some ways, she reminds me of Kate Beckinsale, who actually isn’t as charming as Julie Delpy. This brings us to “Serendipity”, another clichéd romantic love film which I *cough* like very much. That one is really stupid (similar to Notting Hill maybe), but I found it so cute! Awww~
There even actually were some scenes that made me laugh a bit. First was that “That’s so french, so cute!” and how La Delpy blurted out how she hates this so much, second was the scene with the poet when they picked “milkshake” as word. “Milkshake? I was gonna say ‘rooster prick’.” Hahaha. The poem was just like the movie: Good, in some ways, but not really a literature masterpiece.
By the way, the third scene was how Jess talks about monkeys and does that… err, monkey move XD
The fourth very entertaining one obviously was when they phoned their imaginative friends.
By the way, I do think that both of them are pretty clichéd. She’s not that french, but he appears SO american, at least to me, and therefore reminds of me of a certain person (my god). Probably this even is a by-product of his good acting skills *hrr hrr*
Err, I find myself unable to write some conclusion to this blog post. Maybe it reflects how the film itself didn’t really have a conclusion – after all, you don’t even get a glimpse of bout what happened afterwards. Luckily, there’s a sequel. *g*
PS. The DVD covers and posters for this movie are all so incredibly awful. >.< PPS. The review for "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind" comes tomorrow. I kind of need to sort my thoughts for it.
Hihi, I expected that you wouldn’t really think that the movie is that outstanding. So I didn’t put it in the list of “Geheimtipps” in the Ponyboard. Just like “Fucking Amal” it’s a movie that personally appealed to me somehow.
But of course it’s great you watched it! *__*
“Luckily, there’s a sequel.” OMG, yes – Luckily I bought both movies at the same time. (No, I just watched them in a row, I think.) The end of Before Sunrise is a terrible cliffhanger.
Julie Delpy’s laugher is awesome! XD
“By the way, I do think that both of them are pretty clichéd.” Right. I think that’s the way they should be.
Yeah, Fucking Amal was the other movie that I actually just watched because you were raving about it so much *haha*
I do think that “Before Sunrise” is outstanding compared to your typical Hollywood movie. To me, it’s like Harry Potter: very good and enjoyable, but not a masterpiece. Harry Potter or Before Sunrise are gorgeous on another level compared to, say, Madame Bovary or Memento.
I want to see the sequel too, yeah. I actually spoiled myself a little bit, but that doesn’t matter. Like I said, it’s the characters and the “something” between them that makes the movie great, not exactly what happens.
What I found interesting is also how fast the relationship developed – they talked so much to each other that their relationship got to a certain stage of depth that takes other couple months or years.
The cliché, yeah… I also think that it’s intentional – both of them are slightly idolized and stand for a whole generation, a sociological effect. (I read something about Generation X somewhere – ugh. Ah well, Generation X is still better than Generation Praktikum: it’s still better to be defined by your internal struggles, consumerism and whatnot rather than by your financial and economical problems >.<)
hahaha, OMG i LOVE “Serendipity”!?
What, for real? XD You like it? *faints*
YES. it reminds me of…sleeping in a very fluffy bed with a large droning fan next to me