Life at three distinct points.

*Updated with trailers from Youtube.

Before Sunrise.

Before Sunset.

Before Midnight.

These three movies was made (coincidentally or not) 9 years apart. And they all reflect the characters' lives at different points of their lives.

I started my holiday and my freedom by watching them.

The first was a chanced encounter leading to a romantic night in Vienna. The second was finding each other again at a much more mature age. The last was being married with twins and starting to get disappointed in life or with each other.

I love how all three movies are not eventful. But just alot of conversations and talking. The story plot and their lives in between the movies were revealed in their conversations. I love how their thoughts were so well thought out, and how they seem to be able to coexist and connect at such a profound level. It made me realise that our lives could be just like that. We started out in the early twenties with so much hope about our future and such wild dreams. Then as we reach our thirties,  we realise life is much more complicated than that and that life doesn't seem to be turning out the way we want it to be. And when we are in the forties with kids and family,  we find ourselves disappointed with how life has lead us to this point where non of our dreams are fulfilled. Life turns out to be much more difficult and time consuming than we thought. And we never achieved what we set out to (or not to) achieve. Ultimately we reach a stage where we eventually realise that's life! Imperfect. But we do the best we could out of it!

I would watch all 3 movies again. Because the characters speak of how I am now (at the first movie). Always thinking about so many things, bothered by so many unimportant things. And eventually many years later I would look back and laughed at how silly I was. I love this particular quote from the movie, about how romance is totally not important. What tides us through time till our last breath is our friends and family.

Oh and I definitely see how twisted our female minds can be when we are so caught up in the world we thought we see but is actually nothing but our stupid guesses and assumptions. Haha!