The Before Midnight Trailer

Some people like Before Sunrise and Before Sunset. And some other people are terrible, miserable human beings, whom you should not be friends with. It's a simple division. Since we can safely ignore the second group, here is some news which will interest the first: Before Midnight, the third film in the series, finally has a trailer.

Of course I'm as excited to see where Celine and Jesse are now, and what they'll talk about, as a fan waiting for Iron Man 3. However, I don't think Before Midnight can replace Before Sunrise in the fondest corner of my heart, just as Before Sunset was doomed to always be a distant second. In the first movie, Jesse and Celine, as young strangers, are so perfectly unguarded and unspoiled that you know it can only last for a moment. Because they still had their whole life to choose, there was no sadness at the cost of their choices - even if they made the right ones. Before Sunset was perfect but sad, because Jesse and Celine had clearly learned that life was not one long romantic night in Vienna. And as perfect as the movie was, it's harder to love something that's darker. Anyway, as an indication of how important these movies were to me, here's a story as I shared it on a friend's Facebook wall:

So, for some reason a post you commented on re. Before Midnight showed up on my news feed, which reminded me of a story. Back when I lived in Victoria, I was having a bad week and thought I would take an impromptu trip to Vancouver. My rough plan was to go without any commitments, meet some nice BC hero, and have a Before Sunrise-type gambol throughout the city. Instead I spent like 6 hours walking by myself through Vancouver's storage unit district and injured my knee. The closest I got to a genuine connection was the look I exchanged with a raccoon crawling out of the library's garbage can at 3 in the morning. WHERE'S MY MOVIE, LINKLATER???