Integral Post-Metaphysical Spirituality
Participatory Spirituality for the 21st Century
Before Midnight - a movie
Hi there, [Woman].
I just saw this library DVD and it was very good to my tastes. I thought of you and I was wondering if you might enjoy it and appreciate it.
The reason it may be interesting to you is that it has to do with relationship and love and real life.
My sense from what you have said and from what little we have shared in conversation is that you are on the look-out for love, for attraction to a man, for a good relationship. You're not so naive anymore, after your marriage, so you are maybe requiring that there be some understanding, enough reality, maybe more wisdom about the whole quest. Maybe I am saying more than is true, but you are interested in the topic.
I don't know your tastes in movies or stories but this film with Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy set within a Greek holiday goes quite deep. It is socially and relationally fairly sophisticated. There are parts that depict marvelous conversations between them, and within a group of a friends, about big themes of life. There are parts that are beautiful as it shows how this maturing relationship allows for more awareness than many couples can handle or can even muster, and parts that are difficult to watch in the repetitive stuck points that couples can get into and can revisit painfully.
I'd call this a conversational genre and there are one-to-one moments that remind me of My Dinner With Andre.
I found this movie to be quite compelling and to be educational for me, vicariously watching a man and woman navigate troubles and fun.
When I looked it up online afterwards, I was surprised to see that this indie film was the final sequel in a trilogy, following Before Sunrise and Before Sunset.
I would be curious what you thought and felt about it, though I don't necessarily expect that you will watch it.
Regardless, best to you, to me, and us all in doing better at finding love or in being open to love again and again and again :) Something like that :) d
Here is the link to one review and I paste the last paragraph of it below:
http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2013/05/-i-before-...
"In Before Sunrise, Celine closes her eyes and takes a leap with Jesse; at the end of Before Sunset, Jesse returns the favor. But acts of reckless abandon have consequences, and in Before Midnight, the couple must deal with those consequences. Yet—and this is the genius of the picture, and the grandness of its achievement—the film demonstrates that a relationship strong enough to withstand the fallout of those actions is infinitely more impressive than the entirely harmonious one of romantic imagination. Before Sunrise imagined romantic love as yours for the taking. Before Sunset saw it as something that might slip from one's grasp. Before Midnight looks it straight in the eye and calls it out as hard fucking work. "It's not perfect," as Jesse says. "But it's real.""
I just saw this library DVD and it was very good to my tastes. I thought of you and I was wondering if you might enjoy it and appreciate it.
The reason it may be interesting to you is that it has to do with relationship and love and real life.
My sense from what you have said and from what little we have shared in conversation is that you are on the look-out for love, for attraction to a man, for a good relationship. You're not so naive anymore, after your marriage, so you are maybe requiring that there be some understanding, enough reality, maybe more wisdom about the whole quest. Maybe I am saying more than is true, but you are interested in the topic.
I don't know your tastes in movies or stories but this film with Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy set within a Greek holiday goes quite deep. It is socially and relationally fairly sophisticated. There are parts that depict marvelous conversations between them, and within a group of a friends, about big themes of life. There are parts that are beautiful as it shows how this maturing relationship allows for more awareness than many couples can handle or can even muster, and parts that are difficult to watch in the repetitive stuck points that couples can get into and can revisit painfully.
I'd call this a conversational genre and there are one-to-one moments that remind me of My Dinner With Andre.
I found this movie to be quite compelling and to be educational for me, vicariously watching a man and woman navigate troubles and fun.
When I looked it up online afterwards, I was surprised to see that this indie film was the final sequel in a trilogy, following Before Sunrise and Before Sunset.
I would be curious what you thought and felt about it, though I don't necessarily expect that you will watch it.
Regardless, best to you, to me, and us all in doing better at finding love or in being open to love again and again and again :) Something like that :) d
Here is the link to one review and I paste the last paragraph of it below:
http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2013/05/-i-before-...
"In Before Sunrise, Celine closes her eyes and takes a leap with Jesse; at the end of Before Sunset, Jesse returns the favor. But acts of reckless abandon have consequences, and in Before Midnight, the couple must deal with those consequences. Yet—and this is the genius of the picture, and the grandness of its achievement—the film demonstrates that a relationship strong enough to withstand the fallout of those actions is infinitely more impressive than the entirely harmonious one of romantic imagination. Before Sunrise imagined romantic love as yours for the taking. Before Sunset saw it as something that might slip from one's grasp. Before Midnight looks it straight in the eye and calls it out as hard fucking work. "It's not perfect," as Jesse says. "But it's real.""
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