Before Sunset by Richard Linklater picks up where Before Sunrise left us. Jesse and Celine have been apart for nine years and they have a lot to catch up on and they cant get to it soon enough. Celine discovers Jesse was waiting for her at the train station when she couldn't make it to the date they were set to meet again. She feel extremely bad for Jesse but her grandmother had passed away days prior to the meeting date and she could not make it. But they soon get past that and start to discuss the changes in their lives in the past nine years. Jesse has gotten married and has one child, as well as wrote a book. They book describes the magical 24 hours he and Celine had spent together nine years prior. Celine on the other hand hasn't done too much in terms of starting a family. We discover she has dated a few other men and nothing has worked in her favor. But regardless this was the start to another in depth movie. We also get to look at how the two characters have changed as people. Based off of the first film the viewer would have thought that Jesse was never the type to settle down and get married as well as have a child. But he felt that was expected of an american man and he went ahead and did it, he never forgot about Celine though. The two characters seemed to have switched places in this aspect. Celine is the one I would have expected to get married first and it hasn't worked out for her. She goes on a rant about how she never forgot about Jesse and no matter who she sees they aren't the same as him. This was a shocking moment for me during the film because she did not appear to be this troubled in the beginning of the film.
"They walk out of the bookstore and around the corner and walk, and talk, and the director Richard Linklater films them in long, uninterrupted takes, so that the film feels like it exists in real time" (Ebert). This was a big factor that I noticed heavily in this film. I felt that the long takes were really testing my patience, I was constantly wondering whether the scene was going to end rather than focusing on the context of the scene. This feature adds to the matter of making it feel like we are apart of the film but I cant see it continuing to other films. I think this film was better than the first because it emphasizes the reason that Before Sunrise was made. While watching Before Sunrise I didn't really understand what the point of having long scenes and such a close look at two people's lives was but once I realized that this was part of a very long experimental series and the idea immediately grew on me.
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