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This 3 page paper explores various aspects of director Richard Linklater’s film “Before Sunrise.” Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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paper discusses aspects of the film. Discussion The plot of the film couldnt be thinner: an American, Jesse (Ethan Hawke), has been dumped by his girlfriend who he was visiting
in Spain. Hes on his way to Vienna to get a flight home. On the train from Budapest to Vienna he meets Celine (Julie Delpy), a Frenchwoman on her way
back to Paris after visiting her grandmother. He convinces her to get off the train with him in Vienna and spend the night exploring the city before he flies out
the next morning. And that is the premise of the film. The young people wander through the city, exploring it and gradually opening up to each other. The genius of
the film is that their conversation is neither utterly banal nor falsely deep; that is they dont spend their time in the pointless conversations people have on their cell phones,
nor do they discuss Platos theory of forms. Their conversation progresses naturally, from the rather awkward introductory stage to more personal matters, as they learn more about each other and
learn to trust each other. Film critic James Berardinelli notes that the film is a "modern-day romance that is both original and enthralling" (1995). The film is a romance,
but it avoids the trap of being formulaic; often films of this kind rely "more upon actor chemistry than plot. Surprises are about as foreign to this genre as a
pacifist hero is to a shoot-em-up" (Berardinelli, 1995). Berardinelli argues that the basic love story was invented long ago, and filmmakers have been following it slavishly ever since; but Linklater
has taken an entirely different path (1995). This is not a boy meets girl, boy and girl "despise" each other until somewhere in the middle of the third act, at
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