“Before Sunset” A miraculous movie that created and captured “eternity”

What happened to them 9 years later?

The story begins at the bookstore ``Shakespeare and Friends'' near the Seine River in Paris. Jesse (Ethan Hawke), an American young man who once met a beautiful woman in Paris on a train and experienced a romantic time, has become a novelist and published a novel based on what happened nine years ago. . The book sold well in Europe, and a book club and question-and-answer session with the author was held at this Parisian bookstore.

While answering questions, he notices a woman staring at him. It's the same Celine I saw in Vienna nine years ago. When the book club ends, the two are happy to be reunited and, just like on their previous date in Vienna, they walk through the streets of Paris and exchange words.

As the story unfolds, the circumstances surrounding the two are revealed step by step. After The Graduate from school, Celine became an employee of an environmental protection organization and was still living in Paris. She read the book written by Jesse and rushed to the book club.

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Now, what exactly happened to the promise the two of them made nine years ago, ``Let's meet in six months''? From their conversation nine years later, it turns out that on the promised day, Celine stayed in Paris for her grandmother's funeral, and Jesse was the only one to visit the promised place. Since they had not exchanged contact information, the two had not been able to meet at all since then. After that, Jesse returned to America, married another woman, and had one child with him. Celine was in love with several men, but they never got married, and now she lives in an apartment with her cat.

Tactics exchanged within a time limit

What the audience is interested in here is what the two will do after they meet again, and what their current feelings are for each other. The words that Celine and Jesse say while walking through the streets of Paris are calculated in their heads, just like real human conversations, and what is said there may or may not be a lie. Includes construction.

If you think about it, there's no way two people who met nine years later could open up and talk right away. You can't run out and hug each other or say things like, ``Do you still love me?'' or ``I want to fall in love with you again.'' Taking detours, each gingerly approaches the other's true feelings. In the previous film , Celine said, ``If there is magic, it exists between people.'' Isn't this way of closing the distance between each other's hearts the very beginning of a ``love''?

In the previous work, it took a 14-hour date to close that distance. However, in this film, Jesse is supposed to go to the airport to catch a flight to New York, so the two of them only have about the time of one movie to get there. In other words, this work is depicted with a sense of time that is close to real time. Additionally, Jesse has family obligations that interfere with their relationship. Due to the strict time limit and walls that are even more difficult to overcome than the previous film, this film has suspense-like elements that will keep the audience on their toes.

The true feelings of two people hidden behind lies and facades