"Before Sunrise" 6/10

[carmencitah96]

 I think Jesse is cynical because he's afraid showing himself as he really is: sweet, and tender, but about all things a man in love. Just watch Before Sunset, and you'll discover as he really is: an idealist.

[momemimomoo]

@carmencitah96 i like your view of jesse :)

[carmencitah96]

@momemimomoo Thank you. Sweet of you to say :D

[Winnie77luv]

The poet reminds me soooo much of old Gregg!!!!!!

[acinom13]

Anyone notice the street poet and Jesse look a LOT alike? It's like the poet is his artistic double who's saying what he's actually thinking to Celine. (But then of course, Jesse couldn't just admit that he feels the same way.)

[Kay2be2M]

This movie has made me temporarily forget about this great date I went on with a guy that seemed to be all over me but yet hasn't called me back in a week. Jerk!

[TheUnderdogComplex86]

3:50 Winona Ryder.

[scooterlibbie]

man, jesse really sucks at pinball

[GeorgesBarras]

If Jesse were an Englishman, the conversation in the bar would be their final conversation.

[lotec11]

enter negative energy

[hisatennis]

looks like jessie is f***ing pinball table 6:27 - 7:04 lol Love this movie. I can watch this and Before Sunset over and over!!!

[MrInternetDude]

He totally plugged that word in that poem.

I wish was 1998 again, I miss my childhood

[KiteFlyingVespa]

That was a really lovely poem.

[BigOldMrKnish]

that's true. chimpanzees are a relatively peaceful bunch; and a lot of anthropologist have attributed this social tranquility to chimps being so promiscuous. as being our closest cousins i think that we should take heed and follow suit. to any women that may be reading this: sleep with me and lets make peace!

[ksalsera]

bonobos aren't monkeys

[oOsprinklesOo]

totally agree with her on the feminist thing, lol!

[Anal3t1cia]

"ur goin to buy me a beer? hahahaahaha"

[Anal3t1cia]

omg! that poet!!!! and hes hottttttttttttttttt

[megustaverlas]

The bonobos? lol

[DrunkPerson]

they are both a little bit toolish

the girl just a little bit, but the guy jesus christ man have u ever seen a tool in the wilderness?

[Lolzatyourfacemoo]

That pinball machine sucks! lol

[balloydspiritsoul]

@ 3:44 music by deathmetalist Fetish 69" Pig Blood Reprise"

[JoeStunner]

This film is a masterpiece. I still remember the effect it had on me when I first saw it fifteen years ago. I'm watching it again now because I'm going to Vienna in a couple of days and, you know…a part of me IS wondering if I'll meet MY Celine. (You just never know…)

[rRosuGalbenAlbastru]

@JoeStunner And have you? Met her?

[JoeStunner]

@rRosuGalbenAlbastru

Haha! No, sadly not. I did go to various Before Sunrise locations though, and take a ton of pictures. Guess I'll just have to go again to find Celine. ;-)

[rRosuGalbenAlbastru]

@JoeStunner I don't think you can find your Celine if you try that hard. Just let it flow. Love shouldnt be chased.

[JoeStunner]

@rRosuGalbenAlbastru

Of course, you're right. But it's hard not to keep an eye out. ;-)

[DrunkPerson]

@JoeStunner what the fuck is wrong with you man

[nuggie9511]

I love the sexual subtlety in how they each play pinball. Watch the way he plays. Full of primalness, if that's a word. Brilliant acting, directing, film.

[anney0207]

this is a gr8 movie but celine's last line kinda pissed me off :)

[2bin]

I love how this movie reveals how 90s it is. Take, for instance, the club scene with the faux-Cobain vocals. Doesn't get more 90s than that.

[imroweh]

the mysterioous stranger who offers poems give the magcal aspect to the movie

[gmhmilenio]

Jessie is so cynical, it's like I'm seeing myself. Now I realize how annoying, dispiriting that can be haha sometimes you gotta have a little faith (not necessarily religious) and stop being so skeptic and bashing of everything, maybe keeping a little innocence or believing in something is good for the heart. I should practice that :)

[rocket120651]

Everytime I watch this clip..Ithink how sensitively it has been written

[altimita]

this guy is so boring.. he has had like 2 good lines.

[brentybop]

@rocket120651 u wrote the same thing 3 times!!! why???

[nutella871]

I DON'T LIKE JESSIE. But maybe I'll grow to like him more in the sequel. Haha love the poet, what a classy bum lol.

[austingavent]

Can anyone tell me what song is playing or who is playing it in the club? I cant get it out of my head, its great music... I love how he added tidbits of great art in to the movie.

[TheSamun]

Do you know what is the worst thing about someone breaking up with you? Is when you remember how little you thought about the people you broke up with, and you realise, that is how little they bothered thinking about you... So true, sometimes, so false. But when it's true, you realise how much you have to think about them after all.

[Creatrix13]

She is so wonderfully right. Feminism was created by men to destroy the family unit and separate women from their true inner strength and power. Women have the most precious and strong energy when they stay centered in their own energy and keep the Divine female spark within....

[MitsukiShiro]

@Creatrix13 ..... I disagree! I want to become an architect and my wish is to travel and see the word. Back in the days women weren't aloud to do anything. The men had the money and the women had to cook and clean. I want to study art, see places and people not to stay at home cleaning and cooking for the rest of my life.

[AliceAAlice]

poet, poet, poet =)))

[xsyntaxerror]

the poem reminds me of cummings' poem "i carry your heart with me"...

(...)"i carry your heart(i carry it in my heart) "

nice

[sophiaSMY]

@xsyntaxerror to me it reminds me one of Fernando Pessoa, Portuguese writer... basically he talks about watching flowing the river and the uncertainties about carrying each other through life. :) one of the best movies of ever this one :)

[xsyntaxerror]

@sophiaSMY that's funny: haven't heard from fernando pessoa until you mentioned him, but i've just read an article about books in an online magazine and there was a quote of him, basically he said that literature is the most enjoyable way to ignore life ;) guess i have to look him up now!

[sophiaSMY]

@xsyntaxerror for me, he and Neruda are my favorite of all the time, they always makes us think but at the same time, exert fascination wit the combination of words and adjectives :) I'm glad you found him now and I hope you like his pieces!

[lmobiousl]

So true. "Love is this escape for two people who don't know how to be alone"

[Wonderwh98]

i love how jesse always turns eveything that is magical like the poem and the lady reading palms into his realistic cynical view of the world , it's his character, that makes his charm too

[beliza87]

i totally gets how he feels about the poem

[Zavia1234]

what i like in this movie is the way both of them are sharing their stories with each other without any hesitation which one usually feels with someone you already know.....

i guess it's easy with some strange who you just instantly click with.

[saltyypeoch]

She said "Shit!!!" in French at 4:03

[Wonderwh98]

merde

[TheVasilisas]

@saltyypeoch

Can you sound it out please?

[TheMichelleLeeWhite]

I love this part. He wrote it in a couple of minutes. They expected a sham...at least The American did.

[Maiahtiara]

where is their luggage gone? any idea?

[shiwinator]

they got a locker at the train station

[quathar]

Not really. It was quite cliche and more of a song lyric than a poem.

[bodyanti]

Forget Jessie, I'm in love with the street poet ;)

[erischaotic]

@bodyanti i'm so with you dude

[zaphon79]

what is the song that guy is playing in the club? it sounds very grunge

[PinkPrism008]

When Celine and Jesse go into the

game room, the director, Richard Linklater, can be seen in a cameo appearance at 3:45 in a white T-shirt with

yelllow across the front. He is much cuter than this, believe me!

[meshi1990]

I want to marry the street poet... he's fantastic :)

[verse117]

yeah i agree

[realpipol]

watch this movie,.AND I LOVE YOU SO<..

[indyracingnut]

I love how Celine blurts out a nice "Merde!" when she loses the ball on the pinball game. Something about when a French person says "Shit!" in French always makes me laugh! :)

[Garfunklmibladder]

ethan Hawke is so right... ;-; They don't care about you :C sadness

[Nada982]

I don't like jesse! because he's so cynical... and my disliking him is amplified because I find myself being cynical like that so many times... aggghhhh... I just..kill all the magic!

[QueXseraXsera]

It's funny how the things we don't like about other people are often the things we don't like about ourselves. Although I think the character of Jesse is cynical because he feels things deeply. I love this movie!

[Nada982]

that's true! and it becomes so obvious in the second movie... that he is actually deeply, deeply romantic.... I think one can learn a lot watching these two trough both movies... every line is great... and when I "pitch" the movie to someone all I can say is "they spend the night walking around Vienna and talking" all the good stuff is too subtle to explain... I love it for the same reason I love Hemingway... everything that matters is conveyed in dialog...and it's up to us to understand...

[switters00]

I def. see what you're saying but I think that Jesse is a romantic disguised as a cynic...:-)

[nashorlandonosh]

umm....how about writing your own opinion!? lol

[akeelah94]

lol thats what i love about him though.

[bodyanti]

oh my god jessie is such a dag. i can't believe that monkey move! silly boy.

[21stcenturychick]

I love the poem and the poet

[Dexxxtroyer]

spoken like a true poet....until he rips them off. Jesse is a real skeptic...I can;t blame him, I;m thinking the same thing.

same goes to the GYPSY. STARDUST! STARDUUUST! HAHAHAHA!

[ThisGirlL0vesIt]

lol yeahhh HAHAHAHAHAHA me too! it's so convenient, having that one word to put in. plus that gypsy could tell jesse's a sceptic lol

[Dexxxtroyer]

oh yeah! that gypsy! STARDUST! STARDUUST! Bwahahaha!

[SarahNDittmann]

^^ they must be tired doing all of those things during one single day

[drumjuice]

WHO is the guy singing when they first enter the club? With the guitar...awesome song.

[Thicket20]

Merde! :-) she's so cute

[stirfaz3]

I was waiting at the bus stop once because I stupidly left my house keys at my dorm and had to go take the bus to the trolley to my dorm to get them. there was a guy waiting there too. it was 8:00 at night. we started talking after the bus didn't come 15 mins later. we decided to walk to the next bus stop. and that bus stop went to the next one four miles away because we couldn't stop talking. it came so naturally, like i've known him my whole life. this movie reminds me of that experience.

[taurusfroggy]

that's awesome. I had an experience like that once too, but I never saw the guy after that :(

[SteveKaczynski]

It was the schilling in Austria at the time the film was made. Now it is in the Euro zone.

[Deysitarock]

It's funny, after watching this movie so many times, I've come to realize that I feel that I know the characters inside and out. Like James, when he is asked a question he doesn't want to answer, he goes on this rant about something related hoping it will evolve into something completely different. He does this in Before Sunset too when he is asked about whether or not there was really a french woman he met and spent an evening with in Vienna It's so cute. Either that or I'm over thinking it LOL

[ebj1871]

I see exactly what you mean now that you say it.

[davnik93]

Pillage4Pleasure in case you don't know there is more then one currency in the world then the dollar, he probably gave one hundred marks or what ever they use to use in austria,m this is such a beautiful film, its so easy to put yourself in their shoes :(

[beavisnnbutthead]

the hobo dude is hott

[Pillage4Pleasure]

Not that it has any relevance to anything but did he pay 100$ to get into the bar? Because I hear him say that he has a hundred and hands it to the bouncer? Does anyone else think thats kind of strange?

[budge99]

no, they are in vienna remember! he paid 100 schilling. that was the currency in austria before the euro.  100 schillings was worth about 6$

[damonjon]

i like when he plays with his hair, a litte unsure of his placement of 'the chosen word' in his poem, so much conveyed in that movement and i am sure that was all the actor

[damonjon]

there is a waking life reference in before snst when they are walking on the promenade plantée and he talks about being in a hotel and spending their lasts moments talking and having sex before they die (this scene is in waking life)

[1happyaua]

the poet's a cutie

[xemilyannxxo]

they are both really bad at pinball

lol love this movie :)

[christentze]

i think if celine didn't laugh off a lot of jesse's remarks and if she didn't have such an understanding personality, she would have probably left him to wander vienne all alone. lol.

[revolutionary85]

yea, i do think the same , when ever i watch it ; )

[kudaidude]

i love the poem!

[Thycid]

is that pinball machine in waking life at the end

[bitterblackberry]

The homeless poet is so adorable :)

[carlar91]

I totaly agree with you :)

The part with him always make me smile

[xxCorinnaxx]

I love the way she swears in French! :)

[whytydag]

the thing i really don't like about this movie is that it's got no conversation, it's more like quote after quote, thought fired at thought, i suppose it does fit with the story of the two people who don't know each other, using each other for a personal experience they might never get again, both nothing to loose, but yeah, linklater uses the whole thoughts and philosophy perfectly with "Waking Life" but i just don't think it fits here to make a believable love story.

[astrid930]

Is this film based on a real story?

[ldaisee]

i don't think it's based on one 'real' story, but when you start asking around you'll be suprised to find that these kinds of incidents have happened to quite a few people in their lives.

[xabi2025]

Yes a real story that we all have at least once in a life...

[mainrb]

God ..such a great acting!

[lezgon]

great acting, perfect

[CandeCh]

i just loved the poem

[SteveKaczynski]

Very well acted film generally. I like how she is playing pinball in this scene, shouts "Merde!" and then smiles shyly at him over her momentary loss of feminine poise.

[xanthuz]

i love the utter simplicity of this movie.

[akvallygirl]

that was beautiful...i loved it

[ladnyhaft]

I just LOVE this part of movie. Such a beautiful scene!

[salonica09]

I love the whole concept of the mysterious stranger who offers to write a poem. Really makes the whole 'journey' enchanting.

[AMBULOPHOBIA]

the final scene in waking life has a pinball machine too. and they're both in a scene in bed in waking life. man linklater is a fucking baller.

[BrainPen]

does anyone know the club they are at?

[FullClipFilms808]

the poem part is one of my top favorite parts in this film.

[DanaBandana]

as is mine =]]]

such a beautiful scene

[nostalgicnineties]

Did you notice at about 9.10/9.15 Jesse seems to have trouble walking up the stairs?

Is it because they've been walking through the whole city and already a pretty tired?

Or do I see something no-one else does?

[varunjacob]

its the beer

[thefrogkermit]

i hope film makers would create more films like this...

[Nour82]

agree

[damonjon]

i'm a fantasy parade...i can't figure out what that means

[sjatty]

why is he(jesse) so damn cynical like all the time?

[bleedthecolours1]

its just his character. his personality.

[thl2k1]

Great dialog and philosophical film. Slacker, Dazed and Confused, SubUrbia, Tape, Waking Life; Linklater has a habit of creating these day long conversational pieces.