# Before Sunrise

Before Sunrise is a 1995 drama/romance film about two strangers who spend a night walking in Vienna, and fall in love with each other.
    Directed by Richard Linklater. Written by Richard Linklater and Kim Krizan.

## Jesse

* You know what drives me crazy? It's all these people talking about how great technology is, and how it saves all this time. But, what good is saved time, if nobody uses it? If it just turns into more busy work. You never hear somebody say, "With the time I've saved by using my word processor, I'm gonna go to a Zen monastery and hang out". I mean, you never hear that.
* I know what you mean about wishing somebody wasn't there, though. It's just usually it's myself that I wish I could get away from. Seriously, think about this. I have never been anywhere that I haven't been. I've never had a kiss when I wasn't one of the kissers. Y'know, I've never, um, gone to the movies, when I wasn't there in the audience. I've never been out bowling, if I wasn't there, y'know making some stupid joke. I think that's why so many people hate themselves. Seriously, it's just they are sick to death of being around themselves. Let's say that you and I were together all the time, then you'd start to hate a lot of my mannerisms. The way every time we would have people over, uh, I'd be insecure, and I'd get a little too drunk. Or, uh, the way I'd tell the same stupid pseudo-intellectual story again, and again. Y'see, I've heard all those stories. So of course I'm sick of myself. But being with you, uh, it's made me feel like I'm somebody else.

## Celine

* If there's any kind of magic in this world, it must be in the attempt of understanding someone, sharing something. I know, it's almost impossible to succeed, but...who cares, really? The answer must be in the attempt.
* I always feel this pressure of being a strong and independent icon of womanhood, and without making it look my whole life is revolving around some guy. But loving someone, and being loved means so much to me. We always make fun of it and stuff. But isn't everything we do in life a way to be loved a little more?
* But then the morning comes, and we turn back into pumpkins, right?
* When you talked earlier about after a few years how a couple would begin to hate each other by anticipating their reactions or getting tired of their mannerisms-I think it would be the opposite for me. I think I can really fall in love when I know everything about someone-the way he's going to part his hair, which shirt he's going to wear that day, knowing the exact story he'd tell in a given situation. I'm sure that's when I know I'm really in love.

## Dialogue

    Jesse: Alright, I have an admittedly insane idea, but if I don't ask you this it's just, uh, you know, it's gonna haunt me the rest of my life
    Celine: What?
    Jesse: Um... I want to keep talking to you, y'know. I have no idea what your situation is, but, uh, but I feel like we have some kind of, uh, connection. Right?
    Celine: Yeah, me too.
    Jesse: Yeah, right, well, great. So listen, so here's the deal. This is what we should do. You should get off the train with me here in Vienna, and come check out the capital.
    Celine: What?
    Jesse: Come on. It'll be fun. Come on.
    Celine: What would we do?
    Jesse: Umm, I don't know. All I know is I have to catch an Austrian Airlines flight tomorrow morning at 9:30 and I don't really have enough money for a hotel, so I was just going to walk around, and it would be a lot more fun if you came with me. And if I turn out to be some kind of psycho, you know, you just get on the next train. Alright, alright. Think of it like this: jump ahead, ten, twenty years, okay, and you're married. Only your marriage doesn't have that same energy that it used to have, y'know. You start to blame your husband. You start to think about all those guys you've met in your life and what might have happened if you'd picked up with one of them, right? Well, I'm one of those guys. That's me y'know, so think of this as time travel, from then, to now, to find out what you're missing out on. See, what this really could be is a gigantic favor to both you and your future husband to find out that you're not missing out on anything. I'm just as big a loser as he is, totally unmotivated, totally boring, and, uh, you made the right choice, and you're really happy.
    Celine: Let me get my bag.
    Celine: You know, I've been wondering lately. Do you know anyone who's in a happy relationship?
    Jesse: Uh, yeah, sure. I know happy couples. But I think they lie to each other.
    Celine: Hmf. Yeah. People can lead their life as a lie. My grandmother, she was married to this man, and I always thought she had a very simple, uncomplicated love life. But she just confessed to me that she spent her whole life dreaming about another man she was always in love with. She just accepted her fate. It's so sad.
    Jesse: I guarantee you, it was better that way. If she'd ever got to know him, I'm sure he would have disappointed her eventually.
    Celine: How do you know? You don't know them.
    Jesse: Yeah, I know, I know. It's just, people have these romantic projections they put on everything. That's not based on any kind of reality.
    Jesse: Do you believe in reincarnation?
    Celine: Yeah. Yeah, it's interesting.
    Jesse: Yeah, right. Well, most people, you know, a lot of people talk about past lives and things like that, you know? And even if they don't believe it in some specific way, you know, people have some kind of notion of an eternal soul, right?
    Celine: Yeah.
    Jesse: OK, well this was my thought: 50,000 years ago, there are not even a million people on the planet. 10,000 years ago, there's, like, two million people on the planet. Now there's between five and six billion people on the planet, right? Now, if we all have our own, like, individual, unique soul, right, where do they all come from? You know, are modern souls only a fraction of the original souls? 'Cause if they are, that represents a 5,000 to 1 split of each soul in the last 50,000 years, which is, like, a blip in the Earth's time. You know, so at best we're like these tiny fractions of people, you know, walking...I mean, is that why we're so scattered? You know, is that why we're all so specialized?
    Celine: I don't know. Wait a minute, I'm not sure...I don't...
    Jesse: Yeah, hang on, hang on. It's a, it's a totally scattered thought. It...which is kind of why it makes sense.
    Jesse: I feel like this is, uh, some dream world we're in, y'know.
    Celine: Yeah, it's so weird. It's like our time together is just ours. It's our own creation. It must be like I'm in your dream, and you in mine, or something.
    Jesse: And what's so cool is that this whole evening, all our time together, shouldn't officially be happening.
    Celine: Yeah, I know. Maybe that's why this feels so otherworldly.
    Jesse: This friend of mine had a kid, and it was a home birth, so he was there helping out and everything. And he said at that profound moment of birth, he was watching this child, experiencing life for the first time, I mean, trying to take its first breath... all he could think about was that he was looking at something that was gonna die someday. He just couldn't get it out of his head. And I think that's so true, I mean, all - everything is so finite. But don't you think that that's what, makes our time, at specific moments, so important?
    Celine: Yeah, I know. It's the same for us, tonight, though. After tomorrow morning, we're probably never going to see each other again, right? We, maybe we should try something different. I mean, it's no so bad if tonight is our only night, right? People always exchange phone numbers, addresses, they end up writing once, calling each other once or twice...
    Jesse: Right. Fizzles out. Yeah, I mean, I don't want that. I hate that.
    Celine: I hate that too, y'know.
    Jesse: Why do you think everybody thinks relationships are supposed to last forever anyway?
    Celine: Yeah, why? It's stupid.
    Celine: I don't think we should sleep together. I mean, I want to, but since we're never gonna see each other again, it will make me feel bad. I'll wonder who else you're with. I'll miss you. [pause] I know. It's not very adult. Maybe it's a female thing. I can't help it.
    Jesse: Let's see each other again.
    Poet:哎，（用德语）
    Celine: 我理解一点（德语），但他完全不懂。
    Poet:哦。我可以问你们一个问题吗？
    Celine: 是？
    Poet:我想与你们做个交易。我的意思是，我并不是向你们讨钱，而是请你给我一个词。你们给我一个词，然后我写首诗，这个词在诗中。如果你们喜欢，如果你们喜欢我的诗，如果它为你们的生活增加了点什么，那么你们可以随便给我点钱。当然我会用英文写。
    Celine: 好的。
    Jesse:很好，
    Poet:来吧，选个词。
    Celine: 一个词，奶昔。
    Jesse:奶昔，哦，好。 我想说“好斗的公鸡”，但奶昔也不错。
    Poet:奶昔？好的，就奶昔。
    Jesse:好
    Celine: 很好。
    Jesse:我想说，我喜欢维也纳的无业游民。
    Celine: 我喜欢他说的“给你们的生活增加点什么”。
    Jesse:那么，我们是不是在这里停止我们的首次争执？
    Celine: 我想是的，我们应该这样。 但为什么每个人都认为冲突是坏的？冲突可以带来很多好东西呀。
    Jesse:是，我也这样想。 我总是认为，如果我能够接受现实，比如大家一般认为的生活是艰苦的，那么我将可能不再那么生气。我只会为好事而高兴。
    Celine: 这正是我还在学校的原因。在学校里更容易抵抗某些东西。
    Jesse:对，我们都有这种根深蒂固的征服欲。你知道，我在做些最无意义的事，比如投飞镖，或打靶，但突然，我觉得它来了，我必须要赢。
    Celine: 那是你让我下车的原因吗？征服欲？
    Jesse:什么意思？
    Poet:诗写好了
    Jesse:（接过写着诗的纸片）哦，好。
    Celine: （把纸片还给诗人）你能念给我们听吗？
    Poet:当然。 骗人的白日梦 汽车的睫毛 哦，孩子，你可爱的脸庞，滴一滴泪在我的酒杯。 看着这些大眼睛，明白你对我意味着什么 ——蛋糕与奶昔 我是骗人的天使 我是幻想的乐园 我希望你了解我，不要瞎猜。 你不知道我来自何处 我们不知道我们走向何处。 人生在世， 如水中浮萍， 顺流而下，相遇在水流中 我带着你 你带着我， 我们只能这样。 你不了解我吗？ 你到现在还不了解我吗？

## Taglines

* When love can come as a complete surprise.
* Can the greatest romance of your life last only one night?
* 浮生若梦，唯独缠绵一晚为实，梦醒皆虚

## Cast

* Ethan Hawke - Jesse
* Julie Delpy - Celine
* Dominik Castell - Street Poet

## See also

* Before Sunset
* Before Midnight

## External links

* Before Sunrise quotes at the Internet Movie Database
* Before Sunrise at Rotten Tomatoes