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Sep. 6th, 2012 10:11 amMad Men Perform Rick Astley's "Never Gonna Give You Up":
The question I'm most curious about is, how many of the "desert"s are "desserts"? At least two for sure, or at least the context I'm seeing makes me think they're referring to desserts.
Anyways, things I can't wait for:
The Pitch Perfect Soundtrack: It supposedly comes out digitally on 9/25, so I'll be checking for that on itunes/amazon that Monday, prolly grab it along with the weekly Glee stuff.
Before Midnight- The sequel to "Before Sunrise" and "Before Sunset" I had no idea they were making. Holy crap, has it really been almost a decade since "Before Sunset"?! Sounds like that much time will have passed in the series as well.
As I said on FB, on the one hand, I'm curious to see how things end up for them, but on the other, I liked the open ending of "Before Sunset". But not of "Before Sunrise"! I can understand the sentiment of not getting each other's phone numbers, because they don't want to ruin this perfect memory by getting together and possibly what they have turning to crap. If it were me though, eff it, I'd rather have the certainty. Because sure, I would have the memory of this incredible night, but the "What if?!" would always be nagging at me. I'd rather get the question answered, even if it taint the memories. Given my track record, you'd think I wouldn't feel this way, being 0 for 2 on revisiting the past. But whatever, I know how things are now and I don't have to think about it anymore. Hey, there is one girl left, maybe third time will be the charm!
Anyways, both Sunrise and Sunset have open endings, but its so hard for me to think things ending positively after "Before Sunrise". I mean, I wanted to believe that they'd both show up on the platform that day and live happily ever after. But there's too many variables there! They have no way of contacting each other, so even if they wanted to go there, and something ended up happening, they had no way of telling the other and end up looking like a total a-hole!
Which is exactly what happened, as we learn in Before Sunset. Celine's grandma (or aunt, or whoever) dies, so she can't make it, and Jesse feels like an idiot stand there alone on that platform and ends up marrying some other girl and having a kid and writing a book about that night and thinking, "That bitch!" I mean, obviously when she shows up at the book reading, they get that all straightened out. But they can't just pick up where they left off, they're not kids with their whole lives ahead of them anymore. They've made their own lives now, living in different countries, she has a bf and he's in a loveless marriage, but loves the hell out of his son and despite both of them being obviously dissatisfied with their lives, he's not going to up and divorce the mom to see if anything comes of this. But in the end, Jesse decides to miss his flight back.
I know, you could argue things are even more of a mess at the end of "Before Sunset". At least at the end of "Before Sunrise", things aren't so muddled, so you could imagine it works out perfectly for them and they live happily ever after. You can't really do that at the end of "Before Sunset". But I guess its all about the certainty for me. I don't know what Jesse and Celine are exactly going to do, but at least their options are clearer! Obviously, the optimist/romantic in me would have her leave her bf and he leave his wife amicably, and the kid isn't too badly affected by the divorce and custody works out perfectly.
Obviously, life doesn't work out so perfectly, but like I said, while both movies have open endings, I think there's less variables to cast doubt on your imagination of how it all ends up. In Sunset, either they get together or they don't, they either break up with their SOs, or decide to have a crazy affair. There's no wanting to make it but being unable to due to circumstances beyond their control. I guess the ending of Sunset just feels more real- The scenarios I can imagine for them are still flawed, because they're in such a mess at that time. Whereas in Sunrise, its TOO open ended. I can imagine the perfect, everything works out ending, but since things are never that perfect, it doesn't feel realistic. It sounds like I'm contradicting myself, but me imagining things working out perfectly in Before Sunset, I know it can't and won't happen that way, but I'm fine with them trying for that, and making whatever ends up happening work, which is what life is about. Before Sunrise, they have their whole lives ahead of them and it COULD actually end up working out perfectly, which like I said, would be nice but wouldn't feel real.
The question I'm most curious about is, how many of the "desert"s are "desserts"? At least two for sure, or at least the context I'm seeing makes me think they're referring to desserts.
Anyways, things I can't wait for:
The Pitch Perfect Soundtrack: It supposedly comes out digitally on 9/25, so I'll be checking for that on itunes/amazon that Monday, prolly grab it along with the weekly Glee stuff.
Before Midnight- The sequel to "Before Sunrise" and "Before Sunset" I had no idea they were making. Holy crap, has it really been almost a decade since "Before Sunset"?! Sounds like that much time will have passed in the series as well.
As I said on FB, on the one hand, I'm curious to see how things end up for them, but on the other, I liked the open ending of "Before Sunset". But not of "Before Sunrise"! I can understand the sentiment of not getting each other's phone numbers, because they don't want to ruin this perfect memory by getting together and possibly what they have turning to crap. If it were me though, eff it, I'd rather have the certainty. Because sure, I would have the memory of this incredible night, but the "What if?!" would always be nagging at me. I'd rather get the question answered, even if it taint the memories. Given my track record, you'd think I wouldn't feel this way, being 0 for 2 on revisiting the past. But whatever, I know how things are now and I don't have to think about it anymore. Hey, there is one girl left, maybe third time will be the charm!
Anyways, both Sunrise and Sunset have open endings, but its so hard for me to think things ending positively after "Before Sunrise". I mean, I wanted to believe that they'd both show up on the platform that day and live happily ever after. But there's too many variables there! They have no way of contacting each other, so even if they wanted to go there, and something ended up happening, they had no way of telling the other and end up looking like a total a-hole!
Which is exactly what happened, as we learn in Before Sunset. Celine's grandma (or aunt, or whoever) dies, so she can't make it, and Jesse feels like an idiot stand there alone on that platform and ends up marrying some other girl and having a kid and writing a book about that night and thinking, "That bitch!" I mean, obviously when she shows up at the book reading, they get that all straightened out. But they can't just pick up where they left off, they're not kids with their whole lives ahead of them anymore. They've made their own lives now, living in different countries, she has a bf and he's in a loveless marriage, but loves the hell out of his son and despite both of them being obviously dissatisfied with their lives, he's not going to up and divorce the mom to see if anything comes of this. But in the end, Jesse decides to miss his flight back.
I know, you could argue things are even more of a mess at the end of "Before Sunset". At least at the end of "Before Sunrise", things aren't so muddled, so you could imagine it works out perfectly for them and they live happily ever after. You can't really do that at the end of "Before Sunset". But I guess its all about the certainty for me. I don't know what Jesse and Celine are exactly going to do, but at least their options are clearer! Obviously, the optimist/romantic in me would have her leave her bf and he leave his wife amicably, and the kid isn't too badly affected by the divorce and custody works out perfectly.
Obviously, life doesn't work out so perfectly, but like I said, while both movies have open endings, I think there's less variables to cast doubt on your imagination of how it all ends up. In Sunset, either they get together or they don't, they either break up with their SOs, or decide to have a crazy affair. There's no wanting to make it but being unable to due to circumstances beyond their control. I guess the ending of Sunset just feels more real- The scenarios I can imagine for them are still flawed, because they're in such a mess at that time. Whereas in Sunrise, its TOO open ended. I can imagine the perfect, everything works out ending, but since things are never that perfect, it doesn't feel realistic. It sounds like I'm contradicting myself, but me imagining things working out perfectly in Before Sunset, I know it can't and won't happen that way, but I'm fine with them trying for that, and making whatever ends up happening work, which is what life is about. Before Sunrise, they have their whole lives ahead of them and it COULD actually end up working out perfectly, which like I said, would be nice but wouldn't feel real.
