A couple of weeks back I watched a lovely movie. I
thought of sharing experience with all my readers through this blog. The movie
was named “Before Midnight” and it is a Romantic movie (a genre which my wife
can’t have enough of). It was Saturday and my wife had been insisting on
watching this movie. So, I asked Mr. Phoenix
and Mr. Oak, two neighbors and
friends of mine to give me company. The enthusiastic bunch left home for theater in my new Sedan.
Personally, I like Ethan Hawke ever since the days of “Dead
Poets Society”. I think he is one of the most talented and unheralded actors of
the present generation. However, the movie was a sequel to “Before Sunrise” and
“Before Sunset”. The movie starts off just where “Before Sunset” left us. In
the last edition we were left with Celine (Julie Deplhy) and Jesse (Ethan
Hawke) getting together, though both of them have separate partners. So, the
story moves forward from there and we learn that the couple have had twin
girls. Then the story moves fast forward to nine years later. This Paris based
family is invited to spend a few days at their friend’s seaside place in
Greece. The family visits the quaint seaside of Greece. Soon, Jesse learns that
his son (from the first marriage) is about to fly off to United States. He feels
guilty for not being there for his son.
The couple takes a stroll through the ancient ruins and meets
up with their host’s friends. While alone there is a lot of soul scratching.
There is a recurrent question always coming up: do they still love each other. A
lot of things happen before the midnight. When the couple conversed, often Mrs.
Mark Brewer would be whispering “why
did he say that” or “why did she do that?”
The film moves on at a slow pace and we are saved only by
acting prowess of the on-screen couple. Delphy and Hawke have enlightened the
screen space with their acting in the last two editions and they continue to
perform admirably. When Mr. Oak
revealed that the actors were also involved in the screenplay, I was quite
amazed. This is sort of film for the intense film lovers.
At the end Mrs. Mark
Brewer was pleased and that was all that counted for me!
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