Before Sunrise
- R
- Year:
- 1995
- 101 min
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Do you have any idea
what they were arguing about?
Do you speak English?
Yeah.
No. I'm sorry,
my German is not very good.
Have you heard that
as couples age...
...they lose their ability
to hear each other?
No.
Supposedly, men lose their ability
to hear high-pitched sounds...
...and women lose hearing
in the low end.
I guess they nullify each other.
I guess. Nature's way of allowing
couples to grow old together...
...without killing each other.
What are you reading?
Oh, yeah.
How about you?
to the lounge car.
- Would you like to come with me?
- Yeah.
Okay.
How do you speak such good English?
I went to school for a summer
in Los Angeles.
- It's fine here?
- Yeah, this is good.
And I spent some time in London.
- Wow.
- How do you speak such good English?
Me? I'm American.
- You're American? Are you sure?
- Yeah.
No, I'm joking.
I knew you were American.
And you don't speak
any other language, right?
Yeah, yeah.
I get it, I get it.
I'm the crude, dumb,
vulgar American...
...who doesn't speak other languages,
who has no culture. But I tried.
I took French in high school.
When I first got to Paris...
...I stood in line
at the metro station.
I was practicing.
Whatever.
And I get up there,
and I look at this woman...
...and my mind goes blank. And I say,
"I need a ticket to get to... "
So anyway...
So where are you headed?
Well, back to Paris.
- You're still in school? Where?
La Sorbonne. You know?
Sure.
You're coming from Budapest?
- I was visiting my grandmother.
- Oh. How is she?
She's okay.
- She's all right?
- She's fine.
- How about you? Where are you going?
- I'm going to Vienna.
Vienna?
What's there?
No idea.
I'm flying out of there tomorrow.
You're on holiday?
I don't really know what I'm on.
You know?
I've just been traveling around,
riding trains for two or three weeks.
You were visiting friends
or just on your own?
I had a friend in Madrid, but...
- Madrid, that's nice.
- I got a Eurail pass...
...is what I did.
That's great.
So has this trip around Europe
been good for you?
Yeah, sure. It's been...
It sucked.
What?
It's had its...
I'll tell you, sitting for weeks on end
looking out the window...
...has actually been kind of great.
What do you mean?
Well, you know, for instance...
...you have ideas that you
ordinarily wouldn't have.
- What kind of ideas?
- Want to hear one?
- Tell me.
- All right.
I have this idea, okay,
for a television show.
Some friends of mine
are cable-access producers.
Do you know what that is?
Anybody can produce a show real cheap,
and they have to put it on.
I have this idea for a show that lasts
What you do is you get...
...365 people from cities
all over the world...
...to do these 24-hour documents
of real time.
Capturing life as it's lived.
You know, it would start with a guy
waking up in the morning...
...and taking the long shower...
...eating a little breakfast,
making a little coffee...
...reading the paper...
Wait. All those mundane,
boring things...
...everybody has to do every day
of their f***ing life?
I was going to say,
"The poetry of day-to-day life. "
You say it your way.
I'll say it my way.
- Think of it like this...
- Who's gonna watch?
Think about it like this. Why is it
that a dog sleeping in the sun...
...is so beautiful?
It is. It's beautiful.
But a guy taking money
from a bank machine...
...looks like a complete moron?
So it's like a National Geographic
program, but on people.
Yeah.
What do you think?
Yeah, I can see it.
Like, 24 boring hours... Sorry...
...and a three-minute sex scene
where he falls asleep right after.
Yeah, and that would
be a great episode.
People would talk about that episode.
You and your friends could
do one in Paris if you wanted.
I don't know. The key, the thing
that haunts me is the distribution.
Getting these tapes from town to town
so it would play continuously.
Because it would have to play all
the time, or it just wouldn't work.
Thank you.
Thanks.
You know what?
Not service oriented.
Just an observation about Europe.
spoke of the possibility...
...of my falling in love or
getting married or having children.
Even as a little girl...
a future career as a, you know...
...interior designer or lawyer
or something like that.
I'd say to my dad,
"I want to be a writer. "
And he'd say, "Journalist. "
I'd say I wanted to have a refuge for
stray cats. He'd say, "Veterinarian. "
I'd say I wanted to be an actress.
He'd say, "TV newscaster. "
It was this constant conversion
of my fanciful ambition into these...
...practical moneymaking ventures.
I had a good bullshit detector
when I was a kid.
I always knew
when they were lying to me.
By high school, I was dead set...
...on listening to what everybody
thought I should do with my life...
...and doing the opposite.
Nobody was ever mean about it.
I just could never get very excited...
...about other people's ambitions
for my life.
But you know what?
If your parents never...
...fully contradict you about anything
and are nice and supportive...
Right.
...it makes it even harder
to officially complain.
Even when they're wrong,
it's this passive-aggressive sh*t.
You know what I mean?
I hate it.
I really hate it.
Well, you know, despite all that
kind of bullshit...
...that comes along with it...
...this magical time.
I do. I remember when my mother
first told me about death.
My great-grandmother had died, and my
family had visited them in Florida.
I was about 3, 31/2 years old.
Anyway, I was in
the back yard playing...
...and my sister had just taught me
how to take the garden hose...
...and do it in such a way that...
...it sprayed into the sun
and would make a rainbow.
And so I was doing that...
...and through the mist,
I could see my grandmother.
And she was just standing there,
smiling at me.
And I held it there for a long time...
...and I looked at her.
And then finally, I let go
of the nozzle, you know?
And then I dropped the hose...
...and she disappeared.
And so I run back inside
and tell my parents.
And they sit me down
and give me this big rap on how...
...when people die, you never see
them again, and how I'd imagined it.
But I knew what I'd seen.
I was glad I saw that.
I've never seen anything
like that since. But I don't know.
It just kind of let me know
how ambiguous everything was.
Even death.
You're lucky you can have
I swear. I mean, that's why
I could've flown to Paris,
but I'm scared.
- Oh, come on.
- I can't help it.
I know the statistics say,
"Na, na, na, it's safer. " Whatever.
When I'm in a plane,
I can see the explosion.
I can see me falling
through the clouds.
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