After seeing Before Sunrise (1995), I can see how ordinary people we are. My husband kept asking me, a totally knowing-nothing people, “would they get to see each other after 6 months”? I wanted to know the answer as well, and I also wanted to know what would happen after they see each other. But I can never get the questions solved. The movie ended at the most perfect point and with any more going further, I assume, would potentially ruin the air of romance. I was suddenly cut off from the scene when the movie was over, and totally immersed myself in the atmosphere of pure romantic relationship.

I just don’t know how to describe what I feel. The movie is about two people that have a relationship that’s as close to perfection as relationships will ever come to – with just one problem, the problem of time. I have never been a big fan of Ethan Hawke and I barely know Julie Deply, but after viewing their realistic acting in the film, I can only give both of them my respect but nothing else. It’s so hard to tell if either Ethan or Julie are playing the characters or themselves. The performance comes so natural that you think the story could happen in the real life everyday or anywhere close to you. Something seems so familiar and free of pretentiousness that you can’t help going with the every moment that the couple is spending in the city of Vienna. It could have been a boring journey. That was what I thought in the first 10 minutes of the movie, but it turned out that it completely goes to the opposite way. It’s a dramatic story without drama at all, and it’s all based on dialogue and the expression of their feelings and thoughts. It’s the purest and the most romantic movie I have ever seen so far, and if you like drama full of pleasant human being’s self reflections, romance & love between two ordinary persons, please go for this one. You will be impressed.