Let's ponder! :D

I have not seen the sequels yet, so please don't tell me anything, but i have a strong feeling Before Sunrise was the highlight of Jesse's and Celine's "relationship" and that from now on it will be a long dive. Don't tell me anything! :D
So, anyway, this was a very cute little movie, so let's ponder on those favorite romantic scenes which feel like butterflies in one's stomach! Anyone joining?

* The moment in the tram when Jesse tries to touch Celine's hair - so cute!!
* The kiss on the ferris wheel and also the second "almost"-kiss which Celine made into a hug - so much chemistry! Just remember how it was when you were young and doing the first step to intimacy, especially with someone you just recently met. *sigh* Those innocent fearless youthful moments...
* The moment when they sit in a cafe outside and Jesse says "Come here, you wanna hear a secret?" and after Celine leans towards him "what?" he kisses her instead - uuuuuuuuhhhh!!! Yes, another such moment of bliss! :D
* In the park, when Celine says "Do you know what I want? To be kissed" and Jesse rolls over saying "Well, I could do that" - the sound of his leather jacket creaking is SO sexy!


And then he says "Okay. We don't have to have sex. It's not a big deal." WHAT??? After all that chemistry and heavy sparks?? That was the only line of the movie i found hardly believable. Maybe he tried to play cool, sending the message "sex's not everything" to show off / impress again, but c'mon!! At this point of their time together?? After all they had together?
On the other hand... maybe it was the perfect answer so that Celine could feel calm about it and go ahead ultimately.


And how about pondering the greatest lines of this movie? Here are some for me:

Jesse: "I just, I dated this girl once who, who used to always ask me that question, “What about me bugs you?” you know. And so finally I said, “Well, you know, I uh, just don't think you handle criticism too well.” She flew into a rage, and broke up with me, alright? That's a true story. All she ever really wanted to do was to have an excuse to tell me what she thought was wrong with me, you know." --- So true!! I had to learn the same lesson, but Jesse put this into words for me. Thank you, Jesse!

Jesse: "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. ... Right, I mean, you never hear somebody say, "Well, you know, with uh, 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." --- This movie is from 22 years ago and this statement is today even more true that it was then! We are becoming more and more busy, running in our hamster wheels towards -
basically - nothing. Makes you want to stop and think. Or just do nothing. Sit in a field and enjoy the insects flying around. ... Ok, got carried away XD

Jesse: "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. You 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, making some stupid joke. 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...the way every time that we would have people over...I'd be insecure, and I'd get a little too drunk. Or...the way I 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...it‘s made me feel like I was somebody else. I mean the only other way to lose yourself like that is...you know, dancing...or alcohol...or drugs or stuff like that." --- Which would explain all that pain drained in partying / alcohol / drugs "or stuff like that" when (some, not all) people are apart from their loved ones? It's a nice thought here, though.

Jesse: "Listen. Listen. You know all this bullshit we're talking about...about not seeing each other again? I don't want to do that."
Céline: "I don't want to do that either."
--- Ah, right, the truth is being spoken, finally. So, what we had was two young people talking deep "shit", surely expressing very nice thoughts, but mainly impressing each other, trying to be different, trying to fight (Celine mentions "fighting" several times) common expectations of what they should do or not do (see conversation on the boat or those about men and women), but in the end they give in to their feelings and say the truth.