I just finished watching Before Sunset with the Beloved (that would be my wife), and boy, was it a good movie. I’m not sure if it’s simply because I’m biased towards the french lifestyle, but the movie seemed to work on many different levels for me. I think it was a wonderful continuation from the first movie, Before Sunrise. Basically, the two simply walked around Paris and talked about their lives. They talked. They really talked. And that is all they did. This is seldom done in life, and hardly ever done on the screen. So, if you’re into that type of movie, then I’d recommend it. For sure.
In the same breath, I realize what I would like to accomplish with my life: a fine art photographer with a studio in Bordeaux, France and Provo, Utah. I know, you’re thinking what’s this country bumpkin doing with a studio in France, but really, I can’t stop thinking about my life during the two years I spent in Southern France just after high school. I’ve been back in the States for over four years now, but I still have the images of walking down the provencial streets fresh in my mind. I know this is all rather personal, but if you don’t ever write down your goals, then you might not achieve them, or so I’ve been told.
I’ve also decided to do photography full-time. I’ve been dragging my feet contemplating between a degree in philosophical psychology or to experience life through the lens of a photographer, and I’ve decided to pursue the later. I get so much out of expressing and creating that I think twenty-five years down the road from now experimenting with photographs and taking the kind of images I know I want to take, I’d have a healthy body of work to carry on my existence even while I’m gone. That’s what it’s all about: eternal perpetuation, or at least that’s the ingrained instincts talking. So, I better get back to work. Goodnight, internet.
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1 Abdul // Nov 10, 2005 at 6:05 am
Thats a great and terrible date movie!
Great for the fact that your totally getting brownie points for taking her to a chick flick, but then terrible because afterwards all she wants to do is walk around and talk. Look girl, I aint that deep!
good luck with the studio in france, I hear that place is on fire!
2 daniel // Nov 10, 2005 at 6:32 am
Hi Abdul, thank you for the comment.
“but then terrible because afterwards all she wants to do is walk around and talk”
I can see your point, but it so happens that I enjoy those deep conversations, so, I guess everyone is happy.
“good luck with the studio in france, I hear that place is on fire!”
Ah yes, I had my fair share of run-ins with the troubled youths while I was there, but if you stick to the smaller towns, it shouldn’t be a problem. Also, they simply don’t have as many guns and weapons as we do here in the U.S., so it’s a bit safer there, too, despite what is going on now.
3 sinclair // Nov 10, 2005 at 10:43 pm
Great commentary. I love Before Sunset, not just because of all the intense action sequences. I think that the movie was only an hour and 15 minutes for a reason: to show that the intimacy we experience with our signficant other in the moment is all there really is, and ultimately, all that we really need. You know?
No doubt that you will have a studio in France - you are French. You show the French how to be French. You are so talented. Thank you for sharing your dreams and work with us.
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