“Before Midnight”, this is the last chapter in this romantic trilogy. Where a young couple who met on a train in beautiful, romantic, sexy Europe, walk around the historic city of Vienna, fall in love and live happily ever after for 18 years and three movies. Isn’t that so sweet and adorable? Just kidding, there’s of course way more to that story and a lot of good screenplay.
The movie takes place nine years after “Before Sunset”. Remember that one? The part where Jessie and Celine meet once again in the beautiful city of Paris after another further nine years that they had that awesome time in Vienna. This time, the couple spent a summer in Greece, where everything seemed so cool and ancient to look at. I may not love the romance thing so much at this point in my life, but the setting that these stories take place in are incredible. The best part about it is that they make it seem like you’re actually there. I’m also a geography nerd and have a huge itch for traveling. That is probably only reason I would watch romantic movies for. Ok maybe not the only reason. But a huge reason though, that’s for sure. Out of all three movies, I liked this the most when it comes to visuals. The Greek Peloponnese are freaking gorgeous! I think after this assignment, I’ll see how much tickets are running for. (Yeah, before I cry after looking at my bank account.) I like this trilogy for the cool European travel ideas I got each time I was watching these movies. I kind of wish they had a “Before” series in each continent. They would be pretty cool. Long, uninterrupted takes of two people walking around a nice backdrop just talking about all kinds of stuff. Well it doesn’t necessarily have to be romantic; it can be just a movie with a super enlightening message that represents the power of human face-to-face communication. But I’ll leave that for another review or assignment I write up.
Back to “Before Midnight”:
*Oh yeah, spoiler alert*
We get to find out that after the last scene of “Before Sunset”, Jesse and Celine end up having the raunchiest sex Paris has witnessed since Moulin Rouge. They say that it was so crazy that Celine ended pregnant with two twin girls. That forced Jessie to stay and he had pay a crapload of money to child support after French child services kept getting complaints due to CAFSIS (Crazy American-French Sexual Infatuation Syndrome)…Ok I just made about 90% of this up. I’m sorry. But the whole ‘Celine getting pregnant and Jessie and Celine end up being parents of two twin girls’ part is true.
**Umm, where’s my “live studio audience” ‘awwww’ sound? **
I can see how the generation right before me are such huge fans of the “Before” trilogy. I appreciate how Richard Linklater and the crew planned the movies to be released nine years apart in order to demonstrate the theme of love and romance throughout one’s lifetime and how the meaning changes as you mature through life. It’s like how probably feel about all the Toy Story movies growing up. I never realized that films could have so much impact on how we take life sometimes. Now the big question is, how many couples who went out to see this movie actually got to see all three movies with each other? If there are, that’s pretty cool I guess. I’d say that’s way better than a couple watching the “Twilight” movies together or that “Fifty Shades of How to Be Abused” movie that came out last month. Even for a guy who isn’t much into romance like that, I will even say that the “Before” trilogy is incredible example of a great romantic story. The films can really get you thinking about what about intimate romantic relationships make such a huge emotional impact on our lives. Another thing I’d like to point out is that I googled ‘top romantic movies of all time’ and found on RottenTomatoes.com that all three “Before” movies are considered in the top 100 romance movies. (“Before Sunrise”, #23, “Before Sunset, #44, and “Before Midnight”, #14). That means that they are in the top 50! I’m not one to disagree. I think that Hawke, Delpy, and Linklater wrote an amazing story for all the romantic and non-romantic fans. Let’s see if in 2022, there will be another “Before” movie called “Before 9PM” since they’ll be pretty old to be staying out late.
Source: http://www.rottentomatoes.com/top/bestofrt/top_100_romance_movies/?category=18
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