F,
That movie you're talking about, I think it's before "Before Sunrise," with Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy. If so, I remember it well: The connection between the two characters was sudden, surprising, lovely, and innocent. It was a talkie filled with insightful conversation about all sorts of topics that connected the young lovers on a soulful level. These characters meet again nine years later in "Before Sunset"; I love that movie even more.
This time the lovers are older, a bit more jaded, and involved with other people, but their connection is just as intense. He returns to Paris to do a reading on a book he's written about the day he spent with her, and he doesn't expect to see her at the bookstore. They walk around the city and their feelings are re-ignited. With these characters, the passion is understood and palpable to the viewer (I love the type of unspoken passion where the tension boils beneath the surface).
I've played the last scene of the movie repeatedly, where the male character is sitting in the living room of her apartment. They've spent the day together, and this time there is more at stake with their love, but they can't say it because it's too intense and their lives are too complicated. And they both know his plane is about to leave, and he must get to the airport. Yet he can't get up from her couch, and he stares lovingly at her while she hums and sways to a Nina Simone song. Then the screen fades to black. Magic!
As to culture: This morning I read about a Monet exhibition in Paris. I was plotting and planning on getting on a plane there this weekend. I thought it out--where I would stay, what I would do--but decided to act financially responsible because I can't really afford it. Anyway, the critic did such a great job of reviewing the exhibition it made it seem worth the trip.
And this is when I thought of you--and our "binary" connection. Marcel Proust was a fan of Monet's. He said in his work Monet depicted a world to love because "on the threshold of love we are bashful. There has to be someone who will say to us, "Here is what you may love: love it.'"
I love you.
B
Memoir, "The Continent of Ruby," available at: http://www.amazon.com
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