Before Midnight

So, Before Midnight is the last sequel of Before Sunrise and Before Sunset. Still telling about Jesse and Celine, but now the setting is around 2013, 18 years after they first met. 

Back to Before Sunset first. This movie ends in Celine's apartment, where she plays her guitar and sings a song to Jesse, a waltz song that all written about him. Then i was curious about what will happen next to them. Are they finally live together or what? 

Quite surprising, this last sequel begins with a story that they finally live together. They already have cute twin daughters. These happy little family is spending their summer holiday in Jesse's friend house. I ever tell you that Jesse has a son from his first marriage, right? So his son (i forget the name, as always) also spends his holiday there, but he has to left earlier and back to Chicago, to his mother, who is Jesse's first wife. Then the conflict begins. 

So generally, Before Midnight tells about conflict in their marriage. Jesse can't always meet his son because his son lives with his ex-wife in Chicago. So in that summer time, when they sent that little boy to the airport, Jesse begins to think that he never able to be a good father for his son. Because they live separately. So he comes up with the idea to move to Chicago (with all his family, of course) so he can look after his son. 

Moving to Chicage seems like a really big issue for Celine, for she has to give up her career and everything she already build in Paris. It's so hard for her, so she keep rejecting those idea. Celine also persuades Jesse that he doesn't need to always be near his son. Furthermore he lives with his loving and caring mother, etc etc. 

All the time in this movie contains their conversations and negotiations about whether they should move to Chicago or not. Even they have a quite big fight about it. But at last they can solve this problem in almost midnight. Therefore maybe this movie entitled Before Midnight, hehe

In my opinion, this sequel is not as good as the previous one, Before Sunset. The conflict that Before Midnight carries is not that shopisticated and complicated than Before Sunset haha. I don't know, eventhough i know that this kind of problem perhaps mostlikely happen to every second marriage. You know, about step son, step mother, ex wife, and so on. And i don't know why i don't really like that issue, so... Yeah, i just less like it. 

Compared to Before Sunset that has much stronger story, conflict, and also some great quotes that i quoted in previous post. Well, that was my personal judgement. But overall, this is a quite great sequel to watch, especially to learn some...emm..things that might also happen in our lives. Quite simple story line, actually, yet it touchy. 

Well, this teaches us that no matter how far you're separated with someone, no matter how long you never meet that person, if that person is meant to be with you, you two will meet again. How could you meet? It's life secret. And you know what? Life works randomly. 

And eventhough when you two meet, everything has changed, if you really want to make it work, you will go through everything to make it really work. You will do anything, at any costs. To be with the only person you love. 

But i'm wondering, is this only happen in a movie?