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

Isn't "time" a "deception"?

What does this mysterious final scene mean? In fact, at the beginning of this work, when Jesse is asked about the content of his next work at a bookstore, the answer he gives gives us a hint to unravel the mystery.

“What I want to write is a story that happens while a pop song is playing.A man has a job, a wife, and a comfortable life, but he is unable to live up to the ideals of his youth. A man is sitting at a table feeling unsatisfied because he hasn't been able to get married.The next thing he knows, his five-year-old daughter jumps on the table and dances to a pop song.He suddenly becomes 16 years old again. His high school sweetheart climbs onto the roof of his car and starts dancing to the same song.This is not a fantasy he remembered from his daughter's dance, but their moments exist at the same time, and in an instant, his life becomes one. . Time is a ``fake''. This is always happening, one moment contains another moment and exists at the same time. Well, it goes like this.''

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In director Richard Linklater's previous film, `` Waking Life '' (2001), a similar story appears in a scene in which the director himself appears and narrates the story. According to it, science fiction novelist Philip K. Dick thought this way when he was devoted to Gnosticism. In fact, "time" is an illusion created by the devil in order to prevent God from appearing and saving good people. And that we are all actually existing in 50 AD, and that we are being shown dreams of time passing and history being created.

The ``next work'' that Jesse talks about in this film is Director Linklater's philosophical thinking about time, which was inspired by this idea, and it directly refers to this work.

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