To feel the flow of time through Before trilogy

I recently re-watched the Before trilogy, one movie per week, over 3 week-span, just like how the movies was made, 9 years gap in between movie. I guess it is the only way to do right to the trilogy, the correct way to watch the trilogy. It gives time gap to allow the thoughts to sink in, let the emotions to mingle, to marinate, to feel the time passing, inevitably.

I'd always thought that the idea of setting an artificial time limit was brilliant romantic idea first brought up in the Drumroll, Please episode of How I Met Your Mother. I realize it is actually an idea first brought to life by Before Sunrise. I guess adding a ticking clock, a time limit, just like some people would argue that it is exactly because we will die eventually that it gives meaning and excitement to life.

The cities that each of the movies is set in are very interesting choices. I agree that both Vienna and Paris are very romantic cities. The only difference is that Paris to me, exactly like the Jesse and Celine in their early 30s in Before Sunset, more history, more diverse, and yea, I guess more mature. As to Greece in the third installment, I think it is also a perfect fitting to the stage where their relationship is in. Although it is filled with sunshine, it is no doubt a city of ruins and end-of-empire melancholy. It sets the tone of the movie and perhaps it also has a subconscious effect on both the characters and viewers, just like how the city of Istanbul has influenced Orhan Pamuk, his work, and his view on life.

I've always like this fan-made tribute video for the trilogy. From the video, one could already know the entire plotline of the trilogy, but that's not the point. The plot is not point. As well made as how this tribute video is, it is no match to watching these movies itself, to evolve together with the characters through these movies.

I feel like I could just listen to them talk. The topics that they bring up is so interesting and I just feel like quoting all of them here. What else to say about the trilogy that has not being said. It is excellent. I watched the trilogy a few years back. Now that I'm older, it manages to hit me more than the first watching. I have no doubt that when I re-watch it years later in the future, it would hit me in even more ways than it is now.