Before Sunrise
This is an extremely moving love film, but it is also an extremely simple love story: a man and a woman met on the train, got a good feeling, and spent the night together in Vienna, that's all. There are no ups and downs, and there are no unforgettable events that sublimate their simple feelings. It's just normal dating, eating, chatting and drinking. This is basically a love story without any plot.
But in the middle of this simple plot, it actually explores the two most important themes of love: the loss of love and the acquisition of love. The beauty and immortality of this story lies in the shortness of this love. But beautiful love often has to be short-lived. As the two protagonists in the story say: We are often tired of ourselves, because we can't escape ourselves and must endure ourselves all the time. If two people in love don't know how to take the initiative to let love pass at the right time, then love will die by itself in the end, because if we can't stand ourselves, how can we stand another person around all the time?
The death of love and the loss of love are two different things. Taking the initiative to lose love before the flame of love goes out is actually to keep love forever in a certain sense. Just like the 13-year-old girl in the nameless cemetery: Ten years have passed, when the 13-year-old heroine grew up to ten years old, but the little girl who lost her life is still only thirteen years old. The lost life made her thirteen years old eternal. People who have not lost their lives let their youth die slowly. The active separation on the platform has made this love a classic eternity. Before love died of natural causes, taking the initiative to put out the burning fire is actually lighting a candle that never goes out in the deep heart.
Another reason why this love can be so touching and beautiful lies in the perfect and natural beginning of this love. Two people naturally talk, naturally feel good, naturally hold hands, naturally kiss, neither resist nor force, like is like, honest is. When you fall in love with those lovely lips, they are already beside your tongue, because they know your longing for them, and they are also eager for your caress.
Such a simple beginning of love is the hardest thing to expect in real life-not because it is too complicated to get, but precisely because it is too simple to get. Love in life often has too many strategic calculations, just as the French heroine in the movie said: too much deliberation, too much self-protection. How many boys dare to invite a girl who met on the train to spend the night with him in a strange city, and how many girls will confess their love voluntarily? A kiss is just the beginning of a love, but those who are afraid of failure are willing to start after finding out everything. Little do you know that too many things are always unknown before love begins.
The simplest love is the most rare, but the simplest love is also the most moving. Don't let love become a soap opera. Keep love on the grass, hold hands and kiss goodbye to the train station.
