Thursday, November 11, 2004
From Before sunset:
"The only reason this movie is possible is because Julie and Ethan are such incredibly talented actors," says Walker. "We filmed an eight-minute scene in the car, and they could just go all the way through from start to finish, without one stop, not missing a beat. I think that's extraordinary."
What she and jesse talked about in the car, completely mesmerized me. The dialogue in that scene clung on to me long after we'd left the cinema, the impact of those words swam in my mind's haze. I see a celine in myself - possibly disillusioned and dispaired one day. I really hope not, then again the future is not within my control. Post-breakups, her ex boyfriends had all gotten married (the necessity jesse had spoken of?), thanked her for teaching them how to love (such gratitude hurts), left her to choke in tears. Has she put too much into each relationship or too little (so jaded now she can't love like the romantic she used to be)?
And jesse too, where marriage isn't the be all and end all, a marriage wit no love can be more torturous than not finding love. Trapped in a matrimonial union that exists for the sake of pure commitment and lure of responsibility, how can we ensure things don't turn out this way for ourselves? All the what ifs and could have beens only embrace the tragic nature of the situation. When it seems too late to change anything, perhaps it is better not to know; what we don't know can't possibly hurt us. The knowledge might have answered the pressing questions, but a certain inability to react/act/make good the regrets will only eat us up inside, making each day a living dread. Herein the past is but only a burden to how we live our lives today.
"The only reason this movie is possible is because Julie and Ethan are such incredibly talented actors," says Walker. "We filmed an eight-minute scene in the car, and they could just go all the way through from start to finish, without one stop, not missing a beat. I think that's extraordinary."
What she and jesse talked about in the car, completely mesmerized me. The dialogue in that scene clung on to me long after we'd left the cinema, the impact of those words swam in my mind's haze. I see a celine in myself - possibly disillusioned and dispaired one day. I really hope not, then again the future is not within my control. Post-breakups, her ex boyfriends had all gotten married (the necessity jesse had spoken of?), thanked her for teaching them how to love (such gratitude hurts), left her to choke in tears. Has she put too much into each relationship or too little (so jaded now she can't love like the romantic she used to be)?
And jesse too, where marriage isn't the be all and end all, a marriage wit no love can be more torturous than not finding love. Trapped in a matrimonial union that exists for the sake of pure commitment and lure of responsibility, how can we ensure things don't turn out this way for ourselves? All the what ifs and could have beens only embrace the tragic nature of the situation. When it seems too late to change anything, perhaps it is better not to know; what we don't know can't possibly hurt us. The knowledge might have answered the pressing questions, but a certain inability to react/act/make good the regrets will only eat us up inside, making each day a living dread. Herein the past is but only a burden to how we live our lives today.
