May 7, 2008

• "Is It Finally Over - Has Generation X Lost Its Immaturity (and Its Innocence)?"

  Last night at 11 pm, I got my pound of ground beef that I had pan-fried and my bottle of red wine and proceeded to consume it, when I turned on the TV and saw that Before Sunrise was showing.

  Now watching Before Sunrise (or its sequel, Before Sunset which came out nine years later) while drinking red wine is an old passion of mine....and always reminds me of HER (the one living in Korea).....and it's very painful and poignant.  I exaggerate not one bit, but those two movies are THE ACTUAL STORY OF HER AND ME.

  But this time around, while I was still transfixed as I always am whenever I watch either movie.....I didn't feel the same magic.

  Maybe it was like watching the 1994 movie, Reality Bites (also with Ethan Hawke):  Whereas it once resonated so much with me, now I don't quite get it (talking about Reality Bites specifically).  I am telling you that when I watched in on VCR back in 1995 with my Taiwanese girlfriend, I SOOOOOO got it when Ethan Hawke's character refused to get a job and "sell out."  But when I recently watched it with some friends from church....I just felt like screaming at the screen, "Get a job, you bum!"

  And even though I think the movies Before Sunrise and and Before Sunset are in a class well above Reality Bites....maybe I am reacting in a similar way to those movies that I did with Reality; maybe I just don't get what it's like to be that young, naive, full of wonder at life, and in love the way I used to do.

  And maybe that is what is finally allowing me to let HER go....forever....

  And finally proceed with the present and the future without being a prisoner of the past.

  • 12:34 pm
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