Cinematic beauty

Rating: 10/10 (19 November 2014)

I just felt compelled to share my thoughts on the last 15 minutes of this beautiful film, i feel that it encompasses everything that cinema should be. I'm 28 and admittedly i had never heard of these films before for whatever reason but now I'm glad as it meant that i could watch all three in a row last night.
Watching the second and third just made the first one even better and going back to my original point i feel that the last 15 minutes and especially when the director shows all the places they visited together the next morning was really cinematic beauty at its peak. It made me quite emotional realising that beautiful things happen everyday in all kinds of places, and when the moment is gone, it is gone forever. Beautiful memories that only the parks, bridges, and historic monuments of our wonderful cities get to witness over the years, when we all die and the beautiful moments we had are forgotten, these places will continue to witness them in different forms.
I thought it was a very moving end to an exceptionally well made piece of art, i really feel like I'm doing it a disservice to call it a film as it felt so real. Those feelings coupled with the realisation of how life is changing dramatically from year to year, from them not having any details to give to each other, no mobile, no Facebook, to the third instalment where they are talking about jesse's son keeping in touch with a girl he met on Facebook when he gets back (sorry to reference another film) it just made for a really moving piece of filmmaking. Well done Linklater.