Simplicity at Its Best

Rating: 10/10 (23 February 2007)

I think a lot about the original and the sequel of the movie is said in the title. "Before Sunrise" and "Before Sunset" are about this short period of time in everyone's life, when we are at our most conscious, most creative, most open to life and full of expectations. Hopes that each day will enrich us, present us with new and exciting opportunities, that it will bring us closer to that perfect image of us that we first had when we were five.
However, the sequel is more about the specific moment in life when we have already realized that we aren't anywhere closer to that perfect image; that life has already peaked for us without us properly understanding when and why and that it has began its inescapable decline.
What makes this film a masterpiece, like no other, is its simplicity. It is a multi-layered film, without layers-a simple idea (a long wished for reunion of two disillusioned souls), faultless acting and what's important in life dialogue.