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It’s LOVE in your twenties, and then
thirties, and then fourties. From love you can call the first which seems to be
grander than life at that time, goes to the one when you think you either doubt
or master the term love itself, and finally to the one that prevails when your life
[and your body] is no longer pretty. The “BEFORE” trilogy wonderfully explores
them all.
What’s called the “BEFORE” trilogy is
the three movies entitled BEFORE SUNRISE [1995], BEFORE SUNSET [2004] and BEFORE MIDNIGHT [2013]. These three movies are made possible by three people,
the Director Richard Linklater, the Actor Ethan Hawke and the Actress Julie
Delpy, who co-write the movies together [except for the first one where Ethan
and Julie are only acting]. I don’t really know how they do it technically, but
all I can personally say for them is that they must be the best team in making
a movie imitation from real life. You will feel connected to these movies. Not
to the characters or to the stories, but merely to the conversations, which is a
lot! So, if you’re not a big fan of listening to what characters are talking in
a movie, then these movies will put you asleep in five minutes, guaranteed. But
if you have a keen interest in life [not only, but mostly about, love], then
these ones will feed your hunger head and touch your tender heart.
Throughout the trilogy, the movies
follow the two main characters, Jesse and Celine. A boy and a girl in the first
movie, who become a man and a woman in the last one. That’s exactly what they
are as characters, no more and no less, simply male and female. What they do
for living doesn’t really matter, and even in their fourty with a son and a
twin daughters, they’re not referred to as a husband and a wife. It’s
interesting, actually.