Before Sunrise

Jesse: I have an admittedly insane idea. If I don't ask you this... It's gonna haunt me for the rest of my life. Celine: What? Jesse: I wanna keep talking to you. I don't know what your situation is, but... but I feel like we have some kind of.... uuuh... connection, right?Celine: Yeah, me too...
Jesse: Well, great! So here's the deal, you should get off the train with me in Vienna and come check out the town.
Celine: What?! *smiling*

Jesse: Come on! It'll be fun!
Celine: What would we do?
Jesse: I don't know... um.. all I know is that I have an Austrian airlines flight to catch tomorrow morning at 9.30, and I don't really have the money for a hotel, so I was just gonna walk around and it would be a lot more fun if you came with me... and if I turn out to be some kind of psycho, you know, you just get onto the next train!
And then Celine decides to join Jesse and both of them embark on a journey in the city of Vienna. Before Sunrise is a simple love story of two strangers who meet on a train. They have nothing in common except a strange cosmic connection. They roam on the streets of beautiful Vienna, talking for hours and sharing their thoughts on life. Slowly and steadily, love blossoms between the two. The beauty of this love is that they both know that it has no future and respect this fact. There are beautiful moments in the movie that show that what they are sharing is something special. It is as real a love story as it can get - a flawless tale of two people talking their way into each other's hearts. It makes your heart ache because beneath the love affair lies the painful reality that the two most likely will never see each other again and will only be left with memories. They walk and walk and walk and then talk and talk and talk....sharing their past lives, their viewpoints and in turn, discovering each other. However, more importantly, it is also a journey of self-realization for each of them - Jesse tells Celine that being with her made him forget his own self, a kind of effect that only alcohol or drugs is capable of achieving. Without any expectation, what flows between them is pure, unadulterated conversation, which during the course of the movie, Celine equates with magic......in these words.... Celine: If there is any kind of God, then it wouldn't be in anyone of us, not you ...not me.......it is here...just this space between you and me. If there is any magic in this world, then it must be......in the attempt in understanding someone, ...sharing something...... It makes you feel that it must be indeed magic as it doesn't happen everyday that you feel like striking up a conversation with anyone you meet. In our daily lives, we meet thousands of people - does this happen? As their time together beings to run out, the shadow of the inevitable begins to loom in the background. The time to say goodbye comes and ....they refuse to exchange numbers or addresses for the fear of that something special being ruined if they subjected it to the normalcy of a so-called 'relationship'. They mutually agree that getting into a relationship would kill that magical relation between them. They hold a silent promise of keeping each other's secrets buried deep inside for the rest of their lives. The end is so painful when they are parting - you almost want to get inside there and make them exchange their contact details. Finally, they make a promise - a promise of meeting each other after six months at the same station. When the movie ends, you don't know whether you are happy or sad. You just feel so helpless and numb. You begin to think - think really hard trying to understand what it was that made them say bye to each other? Was the risk too much to take? Was there no other way?Is stopping something from moving ahead the only way to keep it beautiful? Maybe, yes, because sometimes, the hurt is too much to bear when a relationship fades away. To save oneself from all those tears, it becomes important to save the relation from the claws of a relationship. In any relationship, anger and resentment with one another ultimately ruins the memories - and there is nothing worse than a feeling that 'whatever happened' was not good, is there?