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So they pass the time before his scheduled flight the next morning together. How do two perfect strangers connect so intimately over the course of a single day? What is that special thing that bonds two people so strongly? As their bond turns to love, what will happen to them the next morning when Jesse flies away? Genre: Drama , Romance. Director s : Richard Linklater.
IMDB: 8. R Year: min 7, Views. Next ». Do you have any idea what they were arguing about? I'm sorry, my German is not very good. Have you heard that as couples age Supposedly, men lose their ability to hear high-pitched sounds I guess. Nature's way of allowing couples to grow old together What are you reading?
Oh, yeah. How about you? I was thinking about going to the lounge car. I went to school for a summer in Los Angeles. I'm American. Are you sure? No, I'm joking. I knew you were American. And you don't speak any other language, right? Yeah, yeah. I get it, I get it. I'm the crude, dumb, vulgar American But I tried.
I stood in line at the metro station. I was practicing. And I get up there, and I look at this woman And I say, "I need a ticket to get to Well, back to Paris. La Sorbonne. You know? How is she? She's okay. What's there? No idea. You're on holiday? I've just been traveling around, riding trains for two or three weeks.
You were visiting friends or just on your own? That's great. So has this trip around Europe been good for you?
Yeah, sure. It's been It sucked. It's had its I'll tell you, sitting for weeks on end looking out the window What do you mean? Jesse: Well, I was driving around with this buddy of mine, he was a big atheist, and we came to a stop, next to this homeless guy.
And my buddy takes out a hundred dollar bill, and leans out the window, and he says, 'Do you believe in God? Location notes: this scene takes place along the Donaukanal, somewhere near Schwedenplatz. Jesse: I'd probably be hanging around the airport, reading old magazines, crying in my coffee Mimics sad voice. He kisses her hand a few times. Actually, I think I'd probably have gotten off the train in Salzburg with someone else.
Jesse: Oh, yeah? Oh, I see. So, I'm just that dumb American momentarily decorating your bland canvas. I always feel like the general of an army when I start dating a guy, you know, plotting my strategy and maneuverings, knowing his weak points, what would hurt him, seduce him.
It's horrible. They walk a bit. If we were around each other all the time, what do you think would be the first thing about me that would drive you mad? That's a true story. All she ever really wanted to do was to have an excuse to tell me what she thought was wrong with me, you know.
Is that what you want? I kind of didn't really like this reaction back at the palm reader. You were like this rooster prick. Poet: Aeaehh, entschuldigung. Eine Frage, eine Frage. Eine Frage. Ich moechte 'was fragen, eine Frage.
Um, excuse me. A question, a question. A question. I'd like to ask something, a question. Poet: So, I would like to make a deal with you. I mean, instead of just asking you for money, I will ask you for a word. Yeah, You give me a word, I take the word, and then, and then I will write a poem, with the word inside.
And if you like it, I mean, if you like my poem, and you feel it adds something to your life in any way, then you can pay me whatever you feel like. I will write in English, of course. Oh, good. Turns to poet. The poet begins to write in his notebook, while Jesse and Celine turn away to talk amongst themselves. Why does everyone think conflict is so bad? There's a lot of good things coming out of conflict. Yeah, I guess so. I don't know, you know? I always think that if I could just accept the fact that my life was supposed to be difficult, you know, that's what's to be expected, then, I might not get so pissed off about it, and I'd just be glad when something nice happens.
Daydream delusion. Limousine Eyelash. Oh, baby with your pretty face Drop a tear in my wineglass. Look at those big eyes See what you mean to me. Sweet cakes and milkshakes. I am a delusioned angel. I am a fantasy parade. I want you to know what I think Don't want you to guess anymore.
You have no idea where I came from. We have no idea where we're going Launched in life Like branches in the river. Flowing downstream Caught in the current. I'll carry you. You'll carry me. That's how it could be. Don't you know me? Poet hands poem back. Don't you know me by now? Jesse: You know he probably didn't just write that. Metro: U3 Erdberg stop; walk down Erdbergstrasse one block, then turn right on Franzosengraben.
The scene opens with Jesse and Celine walking through a square surrounded by industrial-looking buildings. Some walls are covered in graffiti.
But, what good is saved time, if nobody uses it? If it just turns into more busy work. Jesse: Right, I mean, you never hear somebody say, "Well, you know, with uh, the time I've saved by using my word processor, I'm gonna go to a Zen monastery and hang out.
They enter the club. Live German alternative music is playing by a single musician with an acoustic guitar. Jesse and Celine stop at a bar table to listen to the last several verses of the song.
The musician finishes the performance speaks into the microphone. The scene cuts to Jesse and Celine standing, playing pinball, and drinking beer. Celine loses her ball as the scene begins. Jesse: Takes over, and starts playing. Well, um, we haven't talked about this yet, but are you dating anyone? You got a boyfriend waiting on you back in Paris, or anything like that? I was really disappointed. I thought this one would last for a while. I mean he was very stupid, ugly, bad in bed, alcoholic, you know.
I was kind of giving him a favor, but he left me, saying I loved him too much, and, you know, I was blocking his artistic expression, or some shit like that, you know. But anyway, I was traumatized, and became She loses ball. She shrugs, they switch. And so I went to see this shrink, you know, and it came up that I had written this little stupid story about this woman, trying to kill her boyfriend, and how she was gonna do it, you know, with all the intricate details of, you know, how to do it, and not get caught, And Yeah, she was.
She said she had to call the police. She was, merde! She was totally convinced I was really gonna do it, you know, even though I'd explained to her it was just some writing, you know. She said, looking deep into my eyes, "The way you said it, I know you are going to do it, the way you said it. It was my first and last session. But now I'm obsessed that he's gonna die from an accident, or you know, a thousand kilometers away, I'm gonna be the one accused.
Why do you become obsessed with people you don't really like that much, you know, I mean…. People always talk about how love is this totally unselfish, giving thing, but if you think about it, you know, there's nothing more selfish. Jesse: Alright. Um, big confession, you know. I didn't just come to Europe just to hang out, and read Hemingway in Paris, and shit like that, you know. I saved up my money all spring to uh, fly to Madrid, and spend the summer with my girlfriend, who has been on this Jesse: Correcting himself My EX-girlfriend, who has been on this asinine art history program for the last year.
Anyway, I got here, right, and now we're reunited, at long last, and we went out to dinner, our first night ah, with six of her friends: Pedro, Antonio, Gonzalo, Maria, Suzie, from home, you know? She pretty much managed to avoid being alone with me for the first couple of days we were there, and I stuck around for a while, just to kind of let it really sink in that she wished I hadn't come.
So I bought the cheapest flight out of Europe, this one leaving out of Vienna tomorrow, but it didn't leave for a couple of weeks. So, I bought this Eurail pass, you know? You know…you know what's the worst thing about somebody breaking up with you?
Loses ball. I was paying her nine-hundred francs an hour, to hear that I was a homicidal maniac, and that I could eliminate my obsession if I would concentrate on bright colours. Jesse: Not lately? Well, that's good, you're cured, then. Location notes: these scenes altnerate between the 1st and 7th Districts, we believe.
Please post updates to yahoogroups if you have more accurate information. We see them approaching the top of some stairs, then continuing down a quiet street. Jesse: I mean, there's these breeds of monkeys, right, and all they do is have sex, like all the time, you know? And uh, they turn out to be, like the least violent, the most peaceful, the most happy, you know, so I mean, maybe fooling around is not so bad.
Jesse: No, no, no. Woman monkeys are fooling around, too. Waves his hands to defend his point. Everybody's fooling around. They laugh. You know, I have this awful paranoid thought, that feminism was mostly invented by men, so they could, like, fool around a little more. You know, women, free your minds, free your bodies, sleep with me. We're all happy and free as long as I can fuck makes a punching motion with her fist as much as I want.
Jesse: Alright, alright, alright. But maybe, maybe there's some biological things at work here. I mean, if you had an island, right, and there were ninety-nine women on the island, and only one man, in a year, you'd have the possibility of ninety-nine babies. But if you have an island with ninety-nine men, and only one woman, in a year, you'd have the possibility of only one baby. Because they would kill each other, trying to fuck this poor woman, you know what I mean?
And on the other island, there would be ninety-nine women, ninety-nine babies, and no more man, because they would have all gotten together, and eaten him alive. Jesse: Smiling and nodding in mock agreement. I think on some level, women don't mind the idea of destroying a man, you know. Jesse: Yeah, exactly, there's four of them, right, but she turns around and she says, flips the bird to the air behind him. They're not gonna come over here and kick her ass, you know what I mean?
So who just got pushed to the front line on that one? You see what I'm saying? I don't think women really want to destroy men, and if, even if they want to, they don't I'm sure even, you know, men are destroying women, or are able The scene cuts to a belly dancer dancing to a percussionist, performing on a street corner as several people watch.
Jesse: Speaking with hesitation, as he puts money in the pot. Everything that's interesting costs a little bit of money. I'm telling you. So, birth dance, huh? Looked a little bit like a mating dance to me. Women used this when giving birth. In some parts of the world, they still do it. The woman in labor enters a tent, and the women of her tribe surround her, and dance, and they encourage the birthing woman to dance with them as Jesse: Wow.
I don't think my mom would've gone for that. Jesse: Yeah, I know. I heard about this old guy, who was watching some young people dance. And he said, how beautiful. They're trying to shake off their genitals, and become angels. One question, though, back there. When the women are dancing, and being all spiritual, and stuff, right? Where are the men? Are we out food-gathering? Are we not invited? Y'all don't need us? Certain insects do that, you know, like spiders, and stuff.
Jesse: Yes. See, you're officially kidding, but there's something to that, you know. You keep bringing stuff like that up. Talking seriously here. I mean, I, I always feel this pressure of being a strong and independent icon of womanhood, and without making But loving someone, and being loved means so much to me. We always make fun of it and stuff. But isn't everything we do in life a way to be loved a little more?
Jesse: Hmmm. Yeah, I don't know They sit on a pile of skids in an alley they are walking through. Sometimes I dream about being a good father and a good husband, and sometimes that feels really close. Jesse: But then, other times, it seems silly. Like it would uh, ruin my whole life. It's just that if I'm totally honest with myself, I think I'd rather die knowing that I was really good at something, that I had excelled in some way, you know, then that I had just been in a nice, caring relationship.
His life was for no one, and nothing. He was almost crying saying that. You know, I believe if there's any kind of God, it wouldn't be in any of us. Not you, or me If there's any kind of magic in this world, it must be in the attempt of understanding someone, sharing something. The answer must be in the attempt. Man: Bloss nicht dieses Postkartenbild von Wien stoeren. Das find ich scheisse.
Whatever you do, don't disturb the picture postcard image of Vienna. I think that's crap. Woman: Dir ist es Man on right: Das ist egal, das ist egal. Das ist Urlaubszeit. That's irrelevant, that's irrelevant. Man right: Wunderbar, jetz' kann's hingehen un' siehst 'ne zerstoerte Stadt. Spiel aus. Well, now you can go there and see a destroyed city. Come on, get on with the game. Scene clip: two older men, both with beards. One is speaking very slowly, deliberately, while the other listens.
Older man: Egon Schiele hat einen masslos wichtigen Aufbruch in die moderne Zeit gebracht. Dann darfst du nicht vergessen, Otto Wagner, der grosse Baumeister. Egon Schiele gave us an imeasurably important start into the modern era.
Then you mustn't forget Otto Wagner, the great architect. Scene clip: an American man and woman; he is fidgety, she is playing with her pie with a fork, apparently bored. Man: I really think this is a civilization in decline. Look at the service. I mean, where is the waitress? In New York, this person would be out of a job.
Looks around for the waitress. Scene clip: two men and a woman, all roughly middle-aged, talking, joking, in reasonably good spirits.
Pick up! Jesse: Ahhh I don't think I'm gonna be able to make it for lunch today, I'm sorry. I met a guy on the train, and I got off with him in Vienna. We're still there. He's passing through here too. He's American. He's going back home tomorrow morning. Well, actually I was He was so sweet, I couldn't help it. We were in the lounge car, and he began to talk about him, as a little boy, seeing his great-grandmother's ghost.
I think that's when I fell for him. Just the idea of this little boy with all those beautiful dreams. He has beautiful blue eyes Jesse closes his eyes , nice pink lips Jesse sucks in his lips to hide them , greasy hair. He's kind of tall, and a little clumsy.
I like to feel his eyes on me when I look away. Pauses, then smiles while Jesse fixes his eyes on her. It was so adorable. As the night went on, I began to like him more and more. But I'm afraid he's scared of me. You know, I told him the story about the woman that kills her ex-boyfriend, and stuff.
He must be scared to death. Jesse begins to shake his head, slowly. He must be thinking I'm this manipulative, mean woman.
I just hope he doesn't feel that way about me, because you know me, I'm the most harmless person. The only person I could really hurt is myself. You call your friend.
Jesse: Hangs up phone, too. Alright, alright. Uh, Picks up 'phone', puts to ear. Uh, I usually get this guys answering machine. Jesse: Yeah, yeah, yeah. The long-distance thing just never works. I was only in Madrid for a couple of days. I got a cheaper flight, out of Vienna I just uh I couldn't go home right away.
I didn't want to see anybody I knew, I just wanted to be a ghost. Completely anonymous. Yeah, no, no, yeah, I'm great, I'm great! That's the thing, I'm I'm rapturous. And I'll tell you why. I met somebody. On my last night in Europe, can you believe that? Jesse: I know, I know. And you know how they say we're all each others' demons and angels? Well, she was literally a Botticelli angel.
Just telling me that everything was gonna be okay. Jesse: On the train. Yeah, she was sitting next to this very weird couple who started fighting so she had to move. She sat right across the aisle from me. So, we started to talk, and uh, she didn't like me much at first. She's super smart Celine shifts uneasily , very passionate, um And I was so unsure of myself. I thought everything I said sounded so stupid. I'm sure she did it on purpose. Location notes: this scene takes place on an outdoor terrace of the Albertina Museum, overlooking the Vienna Opera House.
The museum is located at 1 Albertinaplatz, whereas the Opera House is located just outside the Karlsplatz metro station. Tram: lines 1, 2, D, or J, Staatsoper stop. Bus: line 2A, Albertina stop. On a balcony, overlooking a lower part of the city.
It must be like I'm in your dream, and you in mine, or something. Jesse: And what's so cool is that this whole evening, all our time together, shouldn't officially be happening. Maybe that's why this feels so otherworldly. But then the morning comes, and we turn into pumpkins, right? But at this time, I think you're supposed to produce the glass slipper, and see if it fits.
Jesse: This friend of mine had a kid, and it was a home birth, so he was there helping out and everything. And he said at that profound moment of birth uh, he was watching this child, experiencing life for the first time, I mean, trying to take its first breath He just couldn't get it out of his head. And I think that's so true, I mean, all-- everything is so finite. I mean, but, but don't you think that that's what um, makes our time, at specific moments, so important?
It's the same for us, tonight, though. After tomorrow morning, we're probably never going to see each other again, right? Jesse: I mean, if you were gonna come to the U. Celine starts to shake her head. We, maybe we should try something different. People always exchange phone numbers, addresses, they end up writing once, calling each other once or twice Jesse: We should do some kind of handshake, you know?
Give me your hand. They clasp each other's hands, so that all four are clasped together. To our one and only night together, and the hours that remain.
He kisses her hand, and she looks sad. That the Location notes: we do not know where this bar is located. Please post updates to yahoogroups if you have any detailed information. Jesse: Alright, so here's the plan, right. You're gonna grab the glasses, and I'm gonna get the wine. Jesse: Yeah, a bit? I'm having kind of an odd situation Jesse: Yeah, well, this is our only night together.
Um, and she, ahh Jesse and the bartender start laughing. But I was thinking that you might want to Bartender backs away, and looks at him suspiciously. Offers hand. Your hand? They shake. Okay Leaves. Bartender: Returns with bottle, looks at it, and gives it to Jesse.
For the greatest night in your life Laugh. Location notes: we are not sure, but we believe this scene takes place in Auer-Welsbach-Park in the 15th District, or Burggarten in the 1st District. Please post updates to yahoogroups if you have additional information.
But something was always wrong. They both laugh. I knew that what I was feeling, exactly what was so important to me, they didn't understand. But I'm happy to be with you. You couldn't possibly know why a night like this is so important to my life right now, but it is This is a great morning. Jesse: Oh, yeah. Seriously, think about this. I have never been anywhere that I haven't been. I've never had a kiss when I wasn't one of the kissers.
You know, I've never, um, gone to the movies, when I wasn't there in the audience. I've never been out bowling, if I wasn't there, making some stupid joke. That's why so many people hate themselves. The way I'd be insecure, and I'd get a little too drunk. Y'see, I've heard all those stories So of course I'm sick of myself. But being with you I mean the only other way to lose yourself like that is I mean, I want to, but since we're never going to see each other again I'll miss you.
She lies down beside him. I know. It's not very adult. I can't help it. Jesse: I don't want to just get laid. I want to--I mean I think we should. I mean, we'll die in the morning, right? Meet a French girl, fuck her, and never see her again.
And have this great story to tell. Jesse: Laughs. No, of course I do. Sits up and leans on his elbow, hovering above her. If somebody gave me the choice right now, of to never see you again or to marry you, alright, I would marry you, alright? And maybe that's a lot of romantic bullshit I think I decided I wanted to sleep with you when we got off the train. But now that we've talked so much, I don't know anymore. Jesse sighs of frustration and collapses to the ground again.
Celine laughs, then leans over to kiss him. Location notes: we are not sure where this scene takes place. In park Scene cuts to city, where Jesse and Celine are walking along a street. Harpsichord music plays in the background. Jesse: I'm gonna take your picture puts her at arms length, and stares so I never forget you She stops and stares at him too. He leans over and they kiss. Eventually, they stop, and walk away holding hands. Location notes: please this scene takes place on an outdoor terrace of the Albertina Museum, same as scene XVI.
Jesse: Shakes his head. Nothing, nothing. I have this, uh, recording of Dylan Thomas, reading a W. Auden poem. He's got a great voice. Just it's like, uh All the clocks in the city Began to whir, and chime: Oh, let not time deceive you You cannot conquer time.
In headaches and in worry Vaguely life leaks away. And time will have its fancy Tomorrow or today. When you talked earlier about after a few years, how a couple begin to hate each other I think it would be the opposite for me.
I think I can really fall in love when I know everything about someone. The way he's gonna part his hair I'm sure that's when I know I'm really in love. They stop and stare for a while. In train station. Voice over loudspeaker makes an inaudible announcement. Jesse: Breathing heavy, like after workout or from anxiety. Um, I really, A couple of deep breaths. I, uh, I I mean, you know. Yeha, My Have a great life.
Have fun with everything you're gonna do. Work hard Jesse: Listen. You know all this bullshit we're talking about I don't want to do that.
Last night. Six months from last night, which was June 16th. Jesse: December, yeah, right. But I'm gonna be here. We see Celine, alone as she enters a passenger compartment on the train. We see Jesse, alone as he takes the escalator in the train station, then later as he rides the bus to the airport. Finally, we see Celine, sitting next to a window as the train leaves the station.
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