Musings of the Obsessive Kind

I think Before Sunset s the most romantic, beautiful, truthful movie I've ever seen. Even better than Before Sunrise to which it is a follow-up. It's painful and hopeful and so real. I can see myself talking that way, being that way. The story of two people who run into each other eight years after a night in Vienna that neither has been able to let go of, it's just like nothing else. And there is no scene I love as much as Jesse's breakdown in the car.

Jesse: Then I...I have these dreams.
Celine:What dreams?
Jesse: I have these dreams, you know, that...I'm standing on a platform, and... you keep going by on a train, and...you go by, and you go by, and you go by, and I wake up with the fucking sweats, you know? And then I have this other dream, oh... where you're...pregnant, in bed, beside me, naked, and I want so badly to touch you, but you tell me not to, and then you look away. And...and I... I...I touch you anyway, right on your ankle, and your skin is so soft, and I wake up in sobs, all right? And my wife is sitting there, looking at me, and I feel like I'm a million miles from her and I know that there's something...wrong! You know, that I ca...that I can't keep living like this, that there's gotta be something more to love than commitment...But then I think that...I might have given up...on the whole idea of romantic love. That I...I might have put it to bed, that...that day when you weren't there. You know, I think I might have done that.
Celine: Why are you telling me all this?
Jesse: I'm sorry. I don't know, I'm...I should... I...I shouldn't have.

I think Before Sunset s the most romantic, beautiful, truthful movie I've ever seen. Even better than Before Sunrise to which it is a follow-up. It's painful and hopeful and so real. I can see myself talking that way, being that way. The story of two people who run into each other eight years after a night in Vienna that neither has been able to let go of, it's just like nothing else. And there is no scene I love as much as Jesse's breakdown in the car.

Jesse: Then I...I have these dreams.
Celine:What dreams?
Jesse: I have these dreams, you know, that...I'm standing on a platform, and... you keep going by on a train, and...you go by, and you go by, and you go by, and I wake up with the fucking sweats, you know? And then I have this other dream, oh... where you're...pregnant, in bed, beside me, naked, and I want so badly to touch you, but you tell me not to, and then you look away. And...and I... I...I touch you anyway, right on your ankle, and your skin is so soft, and I wake up in sobs, all right? And my wife is sitting there, looking at me, and I feel like I'm a million miles from her and I know that there's something...wrong! You know, that I ca...that I can't keep living like this, that there's gotta be something more to love than commitment...But then I think that...I might have given up...on the whole idea of romantic love. That I...I might have put it to bed, that...that day when you weren't there. You know, I think I might have done that.
Celine: Why are you telling me all this?
Jesse: I'm sorry. I don't know, I'm...I should... I...I shouldn't have.