A film that ranks in my Top 10 of All Time, Richard Linklater’s ‘Before Sunrise‘, is rife with amazing one-liners. For those of you who aren’t lucky enough to have seen it already, it’s the story of two young strangers (Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy) who decide to take a chance on love and fate and spend a night exploring Vienna together on a whim. It’s romantic, passionate and as I mentioned, chalk-full of inspired dialogue. Well, actually, the whole movie is just dialogue. Not much happens. That’s what I love about Linklater’s films, actually. All his films follow suit. Lots of philosophizing on life, not much action. Waking Life, Dazed and Confused, Before Sunset (the brilliant sequal, 10 years later). Many of his films have had a profound impact on the way I think about life and the world.
Here’s an example from Before Sunrise I came across today on Vagabonding:
“That’s what I like about traveling — you can sit down, maybe talk to someone interesting, see something beautiful, read a book, and that’s enough to qualify as a good day. You do that at home and everyone thinks you’re a bum.”
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