Not so much Solipsism as Universality

Rating: Null/10 (29 October 2004)

A friend of mine had asked me to goto the city to check out this movie. However I'd never seen nor heard of the original, let alone the sequel. After his strong recommendation and the mention of the movie consisting primarily of intellectual dialogue between the main characters, I knew it was gonna be my type of movie.. (being the conversationalist that I am .. voted most talkative in school, labeled the queen of intellectual babble..) but enough about me. I wouldn't want to come off as a "solipsist" as one of the commentators put it in describing Jesse and Celine.. but wait.. is it so bad to be characterized as such at some level? This same commentator mentioned that the rather self-absorbed characters discuss nothing of the universe and solely of themselves.. However, I completely disagree. Foremost, I believe that in discussing themselves as humans, they are in a fact discussing the universe, in that they themselves are very much a significant part of the universe. But of course I'm not trying to make a point solely on such a technicality, I also feel that the content of their discussions (perceived as solely about themselves) did not contain so much idiosyncratic traits as more so universal desires, hesitations, expectations and patterns of relationship behavior that the young and naive novice to the "game" may initially feel as being semi-unique to themselves. Another commentator especially recommended this movie for the age range of 16-23.. well i just recently turned 23 a few days back and I must say it was quite poignant for a hopeless romantic whose not quite so hopeless.. for someone whose known many of the feelings and experiences depicted in the film personally but never so impersonally.. who gained insight, insight I already had but not in the same form.. I don't know if I'm articulating what I'm trying to say correctly or just coming off as very contradictory. However, partially in accordance to what Jesse says in the movie, as much as love is selfless and giving, "if you really think about it, there's nothing more selfish," thus, love itself is filled with contradictions.
Oh and one last thing.. I don't feel that this experience is unique to the characters, for those who hope for such interactions, I feel they very much exist; this is essentially why this movie is so exceptional.. I'm lucky and not so lucky to say that I've had interactions/relationships with others that initiated w/such intensity and passion, and experienced the feeling of "that clear rush of excitement for the future. The point where insecure confusion becomes limitless potential;" as I've read many of u have experienced.. but of course it somehow comes to an end for whatever reason.. but who says it wasn't special, true, real or pure just because it ends.. and that just because it doesn't that it is? I'm some what ambivalent about watching the sequel, unfortunately by the time I saw the original, my friend and I missed the sequel in the theaters..
Ciao