Thursday, November 11, 2004
Do you believe in a thing called love?
Yesterday, the DVD for Before Sunset came out. This movie is the sequel to Richard Linklater’s Before Sunrise. So I picked it up and watched it last night. When I went to see the movie in the theatre, I had written a post about the movie and didn’t end up publishing it because I thought I would sound like some lovesick girl. Well, maybe I am a lovesick girl. So here is a good part of what I wrote when I saw it the first time…..
When I was leaving the movie, I was walking behind an older couple who were complaining about the ending and what they didn’t like about the movie. I don’t know anything about this couple except they bitched about a movie that was totally engaging and romantic. They didn’t get it. I thought the movie was great. The chemistry between Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy is totally believable. Jesse and Celine had 9 years to think about the most perfect day of their life and now they were facing what they were going to do now that they were breathing in the same space. And they did what any hopeless romantic would want them to do; they figured out that all these years they both always went back to that moment in time.
Now, I don’t have one of those moments in time. And I’ve had some pretty intense relationships. But I can’t pick one day in my life to be “hands down the best day I can ever remember” (Thank you, Chris Carraba for writing the most perfect song in the past few years.) And I totally vacillate between wanting to have one of those perfect days to really know what it’s like to be in love and not really wanting anything out of my relationships but engaging conversation and someone to sleep with.
Much has been said about my harem of boys (you have to keep a scorecard to keep them straight). And it is true that I could go on a date with a different guy five days a week. (Come on, I’d have to save one night for Girls Night Out and one night for laundry.) But is that what I want? It’s such a hard question to answer. Sometimes I think I keep the harem around to avoid the disappointment of failing at being a girlfriend.
I know that it was just a movie, but this is what a good movie is all about. By the end of the movie, you know these characters like yourself. And you want to be Celine dancing to Nina Simone while Jesse watches her.
And all of that still holds true the second time around. But I really do want to have one of those perfect days. And I have a feeling I know who I want to have one of those perfect days with. Tonight, I should be hanging with The Guy I Really Like. But there’s a catch. Travis should be there, too. It’s going to be a fun evening.
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