My potential jester

When I’m thinking about the subject for my research project, “Celine” is the first idea that pops-up into my mind, a main character in the movie "Before Sunrise" and "Before Sunset".

“Not a movie but a life”, is the credit I give "Before Sunrise" and "Before Sunset". They are certainly NOT the typical sentimental “Hollywood romance”, which is the reason why that puts this film leagues ahead of the pretenders. The story follows two people, Jesse; an American and Celine; a French girl that meet on a train into Vienna. They connect to each other subtly, and just keep talking and talking and talking until the movie’s ending, no matter at the sunrise 9 years before or under the sunset 9 years after, no matter wandering in the city of Vienna or enjoying the picturesque Paris.

Celine talks a lot in the movie, I might say, she and Jesse fill every single moment with endless chatter. I have a strange habit of transferring movie to mp3 audios on iPod and listen it again and again, as I can always spot something new without the “jamming” of images. Because of their immense scripts, the movie series become my first priority for quite a while. What’s amazing about it is, sometimes I feel like Celine is speaking for me… the reason why being late for school, parents’ sophisticated interpretation of her dreams, her unique philosophy of relationship, her likes and dislikes of people or even cereals… it contained so many detailed observations of life, most of which I personally could relate to.

Maybe I can cut a little paragraph of Celine’s script to begin with my project, as there are a lot to dig about her personalities. The endless talking builds up “Celine” through her thoughts and feelings and thus, allow us to get to know her as we do the people in real life.

Btw, the movie is specifically nice to watch if you miss somebody, highly recommend!!

The back-up option is more than just a fictional character; he’s a vampire!!..Edward Cullen in the twilight saga by Stephenie Meyer. The four series books dominated my life for quite a while and I just finished reading them a couple of days ago.

The reason why choosing Edward as my subject is, I think it would be interesting to analyze someone from a human’s perspective while the “someone” is NOT thinking from a human’s perspective at all. As a vampire, who has an unlimited life technically (except for seeking death in Volturi), Edward has his own point of view upon time, love, and existence (live and death). Those things matter most to us may be dull to them, as what we treasure most, time, is far more abundant to them. As a vampire, Edward is not aging. He stays at the same phase for nearly a hundred years, so the wrinkles annoying us may be a pleasant change for him. He can’t sleep himself, that’s why he enjoys looking at Bella’s sleeping so much. Not to mention the vampires have their own characteristics, identities (vegetarian or not), enemies, treaty, legal rules as well as their own philosophy of existence. I think it would be a lot of fun to dig into another kind of “being” 's world from a human being’s perspective.