before midnight

i recently watched ^^^ said movie
 a few spoilers it is not a stand alone movie
it is definitely
part of the before a time of day
kind of world


and this movie was a spoiler movie in more ways than one
it answered many questions fans
may have
dreamt up or wondered about regarding the series

like about jesses kid
or did jessie and this girl from the train he wrote about
actually get together
for the last movie
ends with him missing his plane listening to her waltz

i can only speak for me
it answers many questions but for me poorly
sometimes

and i think the character development was poor and shallow
and it is unconventional in its approach it
tried to shoe horn ways to have its series making moments

where as the previous films especially the first one
the events are background noise that does not intrude
this one it intrudes to often

and this felt scripted unlike the previous
and with the other movies
you knew when the end was it was central to the plot and it made it
rare and precious the amount of screen time you had

with that and other bits of the film i was not lost in the occasion
like with before the sunrise
and maybe that is what the film wanted to portray the lost of magic


and why i loved the film was the verbal gymnastics
and that took more a back seat

even though there are four or more main verbal based scenes

what i did like was the evolution of jesse
he seemed for me he evolved into the person you would think possible
after the previous movies

and we still have elements of his personal demons and his creatively eccentric parts of his personality and imagination



but i also liked in a way that it took a knife to the happy ending
by showing this kind of debacle
which was a deviation from fully evolved characters
and fully functional or achieved potential

julie delpy character is the character that sets the pace of the movie
she is directly the cause of fast paced slow paced and emotional moments
a character and i paraphrase to make it relevant that she was more interesting than jessie

and sometimes she was perfect
and other times she was horrendous
she was relied upon to heavy in this movie
as the metronome

someone said that might just be the evolution of her character with the pressures of motherhood
and i dont buy that and i know they even referenced it in the movie
but i think they missed the balance in her character



for when you see this ^^
you know what i am talking about
she picks about a billion fights in a space of one scene which i thought would be a passing scene onto the next scene because the movie built up to this

and one point aside from the fights i was like
and i said out loud
this is not my movie

one we saw her nipple
ok nipples
and this paint a picture in your mind kind of series this was went out of the window
for if there was ever going to be nipple in any of the series
it could of been the first movie
with the scene with the wine and the park

i think another of the movies problems was trying to cram ten years of back story into the movie
and also the pool of thought for the dialogue only occasionally
took a dip in the deep end

and i know it is crazy but one point in the movie i was like this couple
whos name i have forgot have a better relationship than the main characters
maybe give them some screen time
or their own movie

ok enough critiquing of this movie

just the thoughts now of what i took from the movie



will my youthfulness dwindle
for jessie was struggling and even worrying about the same thing
and will my unconventionality
stay the same and be a part of me or become an extension
like put on for some scenes like in this movie
or thrown in as references to previous films or to a previous self

and what is laying out there on the path of a dreamer a
person of creative ooze

and as julie said once in the film they were on parallel paths but now their paths have crossed
is that what lies ahead on the dreamers path

and one part of the movie really hit me
that jessie was trapped
to be a wandering dreamer or to continue to perform on stage for julie

for she was picking him apart
and even went of her way to say i do not love you anymore
and i know he was thinking dam this may be over
and in a bid to be closer to his son he could lose his twin daughters like he lost his son

and he came back to her in the vein of the guy from the first movie
with the best piece of creative imagination and poise of the whole movie when he announced he was from the future



and when she cut him down it was his last straw
and she realised she would be trapped with two kids
and that she would hurt herself losing the guy she dreamt about for ten years

which was kind of a reversed theme from normally they had to get together for a certain time
in theory they had to do the same because it would of been over at midnight

and in closing it left it open for another film

teckies beware

technology is everywhere

its in our homes our cars our pockets



some people think life was like this without technology



some of us like this now with technology


did you know this was technology


but like the caption below




and that got me thinking during a recent episode
of avengers assemble

iron man


all things technological well he is a guy who flies in an metallic suit to go toe to toe with mythical gods and aliens

then we have
captain america


a hero from the past in the present
who is getting adjusted to the world again
and whos main form of tech is his ever rebounding shield

and i used to dislike him for his simplistic ways
maybe it was the writing and not critiquing the flaw of throwing a defensive utensil as a offensive utensil that whilst it is out of your hands you are defense less


and this episode touched on that well the opening scenes were iron man beat cap and obliterating him after knocking his shield after coincidentally cap through his shield at him

and it shows there is more to him

and it made me question the parallels
it has with us
do we have more to us

for he has to have more tricks than just throwing a shield otherwise he would not live long

and iron man was telling him to not be afraid of change and to upgrade his tech

but as stories go a foe comes that works effectively against tech able to assimilate it into itself
and rendering iron man useless
and so it would seem cap
but it is the opposite

for cap does not rely on his shield
but iron man and others rely on their suits or bows or hammers

and cap lets it be known that he knows all their fighting styles and quirks even his own
which the android did not know and how it got defeated

and iron man wondered how he coud do this all without a computer

and it is a growing thing in the current age

people are like


and are quick to tell you what is possible
by this unknown human quota

yet cannot define what a human is
and then you realise
they are talking about their limits
not yours

for when someone tells you of impossible think of griots


think of artists
and visionaries

for how can one who has always been in a box advise others of a place outside of its constraints

then it got me thinking
are we letting technology rob us
of moments
and memories

that we have become an extension of an extension
no matter how many times they flash they will not capture the art

for can you remember a scene of wonder now without a camera

why do you need to explore when it can be sent to your door via camera

and on that note i will end