The “BEFORE” Trilogy

I mean the three series of before sunrise, before sunset and before midnight

For those who have not watched them you missed a lot:

Before sunrise: is about a French girl :” Celine” in a train from Budapest to her hometown in Paris that got annoyed by those couple fighting and changes her seat next to that American  guy “Jesse” who then invites her to a coffee in the next train car to avoid the noise. They talk and talk then his stop comes in Vienna and before leaving he asks her to go with him for a walk in Vienna and she asks for him to convince her then he tells her that he is coming from the future and tells her about her miserable marriage and how would she remember guys she met in the past and tells her if she goes with him she would in the future know that her husband is not that bad and she would continue her life !!!!

They spend the night walking in the streets of Vienna talking, talking and talking and there is the love spark . In the morning he takes her to the train station before he goes to the airport to catch his plan and they promise to meet in 6 months’ time in the same place

In the second part: Before sunset he became a writer and wrote a best seller book about that night and accidently he meets her in a bookshop in Paris and he asks her why she did not come to their rendezvous and she says that her grandma died that day

They walk walk and ,talk talk in the streets of Paris and each one describes how he managed the past 9 years then all of the sudden each one confesses how that night was his best ever incident in his/ her life and how miserable they are. She tells him how lonely she feels and how she thinks that being alone is better than feeling lonely while she is with somebody else. He tells her that he imagined her in the street in his wedding day and when they talked he finds out that it was really her !!! .  They ask themselves what if they met in Vienna, what if he really saw her and did not marry his wife, ….The movie ends that he misses his plane back to America

In the third part : before midnight , after 8  they are married with twin girls after his divorce and now they are in Greece in his writer tour . Here also the walks wlaks and talks talks all the way in Greece and now they start fighting each other on tiny details like any couple in the world. She leaves him and go away even without her shoes , simply she escapes from him.Then he catches her and keeps talking till midnight and now they are in good terms again!!!!

What makes the trilogy very special is that they address your self dialogue to yourself, the long walks and talks and the dialogue are amazing. Some quotes simple play music in your mind like her describing her life is “the pleasure is not in the goal but in the tiny details of how you achieve the goal”

Manage your day as if it is your last day “every day is your last day” . When she describes how she was usually late to school then her mother found out that she was watching chestnuts falling from the trees and rolling on the street, shadows of leaves, ants crossing the streets “this is exactly me!!!”

They reveal a secret in the third part when talking to an old man who never forgot his late wife when he tells them that their secret was keeping distance and finally the best quote ever in third part: “At the end of the day it is not the love of one person that matters but the love of life”

The three parts describe the story of love from start, how they got lost, the reunion, the daily problems of married couples and how they came back to each other

The most important is the dialogue when they talk lots of problems are revealed and solved in the three parts so it looks like an advice from the author “please talk BEFORE it is too late " !!!


P.S : my favorite is part 2 , it is classified as one of the most romantic movies ever

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