Humble Realizations

Okay. This is going to be another blogpost about a movie I think is truly transformative. Not only in affecting the perspective of the viewer on relationships and intersexual dynamics and everything in between, but in the way it's been put together and the reason it was made for. A quick reminder of the movie Before Sunrise is about two random train passengers who met onboard and exchanged a short conversation which is later to be expanded across the 1 hour and 40 minutes of the movie. Jesse Wallace is an American guy who's stopping by the last destination in his tour in Europe, and Céline is a French girl who's taking the same train heading back to Paris after visiting her grandmother in Budapest. The movie starts with an angry German couple who argued about something and Jesse gathering enough balls to approach Céline in public and ask her what they were arguing about. Céline then drops her first few wise words telling him "that as couples get

Introduction(s) 5 to 6 years ago during my god-foresaken teenage years, I watched a movie subtitled in Arabic on the TV. This movie is Before Sunrise starring Ethan Hawke and the stunning Julie Delpy. The story behind the movie is plain and simple, but the concept put into play has set the tone for my dating life for the years to come since. Ethan Hawke, playing James "Jesse" Wallace, is an American tourist who bought the Eurrail pass and had traveled around Europe for a couple of weeks. His final destination is the beautiful Austrian capital where he is catching a cheap flight the next day back to the US. Jesse’s first destination in Europe was Madrid wherein he stayed with his friends and girlfriend spending a holiday, but because the latter was hitting on other guys and other past disagreements, Jesse went on a trip on his own, thus breaking up with his girlfriend and giving himself some time to clear his mind. Julie Delpy, called Céline, is a young Parisi