Before Midnight

Rating: 100%



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Year:

2013

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Predominant Genre:

Romance

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Outstanding Performance:

Premiss:

We meet Jesse and Celine nine years on in Greece.

Themes:

Alienation | Atheism | Christianity | Compassion | Destiny | Friendship | Identity | Loneliness | Loyalty | Narcissism | Nostalgia | Personal change | Political Correctness | Self-expression | Sexism | Solipsism | Stereotyping | White culture | White supremacy

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Review Format:

DVD

How Caucasians Are

Superlative exposé of why Whites have the highest divorce rates of any ethnicity in the world: They allow Politics into the bedroom. Whites do this to evade their mistaken conflation of the Personal with the Political (as they also conflate Morality with Politics [& for the same reason]) - itself a vain means of avoiding the hard work involved in making Personal relationships successful. This explains why Whites produce whining dramas about Caucasians who pursue successful careers while yet having failed love lives - they believe the same trader principles apply in both spheres of human activity.

This movie is an excellent example of a true collaboration between director and performers that also becomes a true collaboration with the audience. The actors become their well-defined roles and bring out their characters’ essence - warts-and-all.

All this movie lacks is a non-talking cure for this self-induced solipsism, that would allow White marriages to become fulfilling, rather than just the suggestion that a good sense-of-humor and good grace will see Whites through.

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