'Your going to miss your flight...', 'I know...'

Rating: Null/10 (11 November 2004)

Call me a hopeefull romantic, but I loved this sequel.
I have read the previous reviews and everyone has compared it to the first. It really should not be compared to the first, but an extension.
'Before Sunrise' showed Jesse and Celine at 23 years old. Still in college, full of hope, dreams, and an ideology of youth.
'Before Sunset' shows them nine years later. Hope lost, dreams gone and youth taken by age.
As Jesse says in the beginning of Sunset, depending on what type of person you are, the hopefull...they meet six months later or the cynic...they don't meet. You as the viewer want to know what happens.
Everyone loves a happy ending...sometimes reality does not give us one. Sunset is so close to real life it is scary.
When Jesse and Celine are in the car and pretty much expressing how much nine years ago shaped there lives and afraid to feel the same they did on that July 16th so many years ago. How many times have we all felt that way...
So, I leave you with Celine dancing and telling Jesse that he is going to miss the plane. Jesse agreeing, and the look in there eyes or hope, dreams and youth, slowly coming back.
I would like to visit them again in about five years, still wondering if they do get back together. Being the hopefull romantic, I see Jesse standing by the bed with Celine pregnant and naked, Jesse touching her ankle and crying for the right reasons.