Image screen-captured with Photoscape from Before Sunrise.
movie
I
f it is about journey, I really couldn’t not to talk about Before Sunrise. Maybe you had watched this movie and liked it so much as I did. Everybody who watched this movie said they totally loved it. On a train, be at another town, and talk. For some people that is totally joyous. Don’t you just love that idea? This movie is about a France girl and an American (“Yeah, yeah, I get it. So I’m the crude, dumb, vulgar American who doesn’t speak any other language and has no culture, right? But, I tried. I took French for four years in high school.”) boy who met on the train. They had different destination as well. The girl, Celine, wanted to go back to Paris and the boy, Jesse, wanted to go to Vienna to fly the next morning to USA. But somehow Jesse had assured Celine to stop by at Vienna, “So listen, so here’s the deal. This is what we should do. You should get off the train with me here in Vienna, and come check out the town.” In this journey, you can expect their thoughts that really inspiring. They are talking about the media (“I hate that the media, you know, they are trying to control our minds. You know it‘s very subtle, but you know, it‘s a new form of fascism.”), culture (“I hate when I am in foreign countries, especially in Ameri-
10
spark
ca, they are the worst. Each time I wear black, or like, lose my temper, or say anything about anything, they always go ‘oh, it‘s so French, it‘s so cute.’ I hate that. I can’t stand that, really.”), God (“I was in an old church like this with my grandmother a few days ago in Budapest. Even though I reject most of the religious things, I can’t help but feel for all those people that came here lost or in pain, guilt, looking for some kind of answers. It fascinates me how a single place can join so much pain and happiness for so many generations.”), technology (It‘s all these people talking about how great technology is, and how it saves all this time. But, what good is saved time, if nobody uses it? If it just turns into more busy work. I mean, you never hear somebody say, ‘Well, you know, with uh, the time I’ve saved by using my word processor, I’m gonna go to a Zen monastery and hang out.’ I mean, you never hear that.”), even feminism (“I have this awful paranoid thought, that feminism was mostly invented by men, so they could, like, fool around a little more. You know, women, free your minds, free your bodies, sleep with me. We’re all happy and free as long as I can fuck as much as I want.”). Also, of course, their own life and their identity, “I’m so glad because